Reading Current Population Survey (CPS) Basic Monthly Data with SAS, SPSS, or Stata

These SAS, SPSS, and Stata files were created by Jean Roth at the NBER to make access to the BLS/Census Current Population Survey data more straightforward and easy.

The corresponding data files are available at NBER's CPS Basic Monthly Data page. and/or the Census and BLS CPS homepage and Data Download page.

To download files in Internet Explorer, right click on them and select "Save Target As...". If you want to print the files, cut out the parts you don't want first. Each file has thousands of lines.

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