Changes to the Household Relationship Data in the Current Population Survey

• Activity Number: 275 - Improvements to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement and Implications for Estimates of Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage
• Type: Invited
• Date/Time: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
• Author(s): Rose Kreider and Benjamin Gurrentz*
• Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
• Keywords: Current Population Survey; household relationships; imputation

Abstract

This presentation will describe upcoming changes to the household relationship data in the CPS. Since 2007, we have added a direct cohabitation question, changed the way we ask respondents to identify parents in the household, changed how we edit same-sex couples, and revised the answer categories on the relationship to householder question. The presentation will describe the changes, explain their benefits, and provide some comparisons to illustrate the changes.