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Abstract:
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The Current Population Survey (CPS) produces national, state and substate demographic and economic estimates of people, householders and housing units. Although the estimated numbers of householders and housing units should agree by definition, there has long been a discrepancy in these estimates from the CPS and from other demographic surveys sponsored by the Census Bureau. The Census Bureau formed a group of statisticians to study the weighting methods used by the demographic surveys, and to make recommendations. This group recommended research on weighting methods to integrate population and housing controls that would produce equal estimates of householders and housing units. For the CPS, we are researching possible new adjustments for housing unit weighting. This paper will discuss ongoing research on weighting methods for the CPS, and present some preliminary results.
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