Updates and Changes -- Please report errors to Jean Roth, jroth@nber.org --------------------------- 2013-02-12 -- ym variable corrected for minsamp 5-8 2009-07-08 -- Added PEDWRSN a question about why discouraged workers aren't lookng for work, though only 5-8K respondents per year answer the question, and the modal response of 11 choices is 'Other', so it seems to be of limited use. 2008-04-14 -- State FIPS code stfips added 1989 on. (BLS names HG-FIPS 1989-1993, GESTFIPS 1994 on). 2008-04-03 -- prpertyp variable added for identifying Armed Forces records 1997 on. 2008-03-18 -- Nativity variables PENATVTY, PEMNTVTY, PEFNTVTY coding changed in 2007 2007-09-24 -- untype variable (BLS name PRUNTYPE) for identifying "new entrants" to the labor force agricultural industry variable agri added (BLS names A-AG-NA 1983-1989, PRAGNA 1990-on) 2004-03-15 -- 1990 Census based weights added to 1990 - 1993 data qstnum and occurnum added beginning 1998 4/30/2002 -- hhnum added 1/24/2002 -- 2001 edition available May 8, 2001: More recent matching information is available in /docs/matching Invalid values for ethnic (> 9) recoded to missing Variables I25c and I25d from 1996 on were added 3/2001 Updated Design & Methodology at www.bls.census.gov/cps/tp/tp63.htm Variable called dindust changed to dind Year changed from two digits to four Variables added 11/2000: pfamrel -- Primary family relationship, 1994- ownchild -- Number of own children in primary family, 1999:11- chldpres -- Presence of own children < 18 in primary family, 1999:11- ch02, ch05, ch35, ch613, ch1417 -- 0/1 variables based on chldpres docc80 was occ80 1 to 3; should have & is now occ80 1 to 6 lineno added in 1999