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Abstract #302193

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Activity Number: 210
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #302193
Title: Issues in Weighting the Current Population Survey-Census Matched File
Author(s): Andrew A. Zbikowski*+
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau
Address: , Washington, DC, 20233-0001,
Keywords: surveys ; estimation ; weighting
Abstract:

The Census Bureau matched data from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) to Census 2000 data to create household-level and person-level files. These files have potential for a variety of research projects, including comparison of CPS and Census data on labor force status, race and ethnicity, and income. After the matching and prior to analysis of the data, we needed to weight the data to reflect national population estimates. This weighting presented several challenges. We used four months of CPS data, from February to May 2000, clustered around the date of Census 2000. A single monthly CPS sample includes eight rotation groups of sample households. We had 14 unique rotation groups in our matched file, since six of eight rotation groups are the same from month to month. Also, some CPS households and people did not match to Census 2000 data, but analysts wanted the option of including them in their analyses. We used basic CPS weighting as the platform from which to adjust the estimates. This paper discusses some matching results and unique aspects of weighting for the matched CPS-Census 2000 data.

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