Abstract #300385

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300385
Activity Number: 277
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: General Methodology
Abstract - #300385
Title: Methodologies for Maintaining Data Comparability for the Current Population Survey: One Year into the Implementation of the 1997 Race and Ethnicity Standard
Author(s): Anne Polivka*+
Companies: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Address: Suite 4945, Washington, DC, 20212,
Keywords: question wording effects ; labor force estimates ; May 2002 CPS Supplement
Abstract:

In January 2003 the Current Population Survey (CPS) began using modified race and ethnicity questions to meet the 1997 Standards for Maintaining, Collecting and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity issued by the Office of Management and Budget. These modifications included allowing individuals to indicate that they were of more than one race and directly asking if individuals were of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin prior to asking about their race. To gauge the effect of these changes, the modified questions were asked in May 2002 as a supplement to the CPS. This paper uses the May 2002 data and exploits the repeated interviewing of a portion of CPS households month to month and over the year to assess the effect of changing the race and ethnicity questions on major estimates derived from the CPS, including the unemployment rate and usual weekly earnings. To help data users construct historically consistent time series, this paper also explores several methodologies to predict how respondents under the old racial and ethnic classification scheme would be classified in the new paradigm.

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