Current Population Survey (CPS) May Extracts -- 1969-1987

Matching information and Stata .do files from NBER Working Paper t0247 by B. Madrian and L. J. Lefgren are available for March-to-March matches and can be modified for use in other matches. Technical Paper 63 contains more information about Design and Methodology.

The data files are available as Stata *.dta files, uncompressed, UNIX-compressed, or pkzipped. Conversion software such as Stat/Transfer can be used to convert the Stata files to other formats. Stata users can use 'copy "/data/cps_may.html/cpsmay69.dta" cpsmay69.dta' to copy the files to their current directory.

Internal users can obtain the data from a UNIX shell at /homes/data/cps-may or on an NBER PC via Network Neighborhood --> NBER --> home --> data --> cps-may

Updates and changes.

CPS May Extract Documentation

The CPS May Extract Documentation is cpsmay.txt. The documentation for the data that the extract was created from is available below.

Variable Labels for x1-x200

• SAS
• SPSS
• Stata

State Crosswalk

Thanks to Mireille Jacobson for providing a crosswalk for the different state codes.

statid.txt has a correspondence between the x7 from 1977 on and x9. It is an empirical tab taken from the 1977 data (which has both state id variables).

• 1969-1972
• 1973-1976
• 1977-1987
• statid.txt

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