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CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY NATIVITY SUPPLEMENT
Description:
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a cross-sectional survey conducted with about 57,000 households every month, primarily to measure changes in the labor force. It is conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census and administered to panels of respondents, which revolve into the sampling plan eight times in a one and one half year period. This latter characteristic gives rise to a limited longitudinal capability in the CPS. The Census Bureau has put "place of birth" and "date of first entry into the United States" on the control card for each respondent. This will allow all information gathered by the CPS to be combined with information about nativity status. NICHD has committed to continued support for this practice for a period of five years, allowing the creation of a time series/cross section data set, which will constitute a major addition to the data available for immigration research.
