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Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
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Historical data series access by subject (CPS)
This page, organized by subject, contains links to various database tools that allow you to retrieve historical data series from the Current Population Survey (CPS), or household survey.
Some of the database access tools use a layout similar to those in published tables. Others use a step-by-step selection menu. Those labeled "Most requested" provide quick, two-click access to selected series.
Note that once historical data series have been retrieved, the format can be customized by selecting "More Formatting Options" in the upper right portion of the screen.
You can browse published data tables, news releases, reports, and other information about these subjects using the CPS topics A to Z index.
Age
Disability
(Disability data were added to the survey in June 2008)Discouraged workers
- NEW Seasonally adjusted series: People marginally attached to labor force and Discouraged workers
- Persons not in the labor force by sex, not seasonally adjusted
Earnings
(Quarterly and annual averages)- Most requested earnings series
- Retrieve historical data series from earnings news release
- Seasonally adjusted earnings by sex
- Earnings by sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, including constant dollars
- Earnings by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
- Earnings by major occupation group
- Earnings by sex, race, and Hispanic ethnicity and by educational attainment, including earnings deciles and quartiles
- Earnings of part-time workers
- Earnings by union membership, age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
- Earnings by union membership, occupation, and industry
- More database options for earnings
Educational attainment
(Data series begin in 1992)- Employment status by educational attainment
- More database options (must select age 25 and over in step 4)
- Earnings by educational attainment
- More earnings database options (must select age 25 and over in step 7)
Employed persons
- Most requested series
- Retrieve historical data series from the Employment Situation news release
- Employment status by sex
- Employment status by race and sex
- Employment status of Hispanics and Latinos by sex
- Employment status by educational attainment
- Employment status by veteran status, period of service, and sex
- Employment status by disability status
- Employment status of native- and foreign-born persons by sex
- Employed persons by class of worker, including self-employment
- Employed persons by age, sex, marital status, and multiple jobholding status
- Employed persons by major occupation group
- More database options for employed persons
Families and marital status
Employment and unemployment statistics for married men and women
Employment and unemployment statistics for parents
(Annual averages)Foreign-born workers
Full- or part-time status
- Employed persons by usual full- or part-time status
- Unemployment levels and rates by usual full- or part-time status
- More database options for usual full- or part-time status
- Persons employed part time for economic reasons (involuntary part time)
Labor force
- Most requested series
- Retrieve historical data series from the Employment Situation news release
- Employment status by sex
- Employment status by race and sex
- Employment status of Hispanics and Latinos by sex
- Employment status by educational attainment
- Employment status by veteran status, period of service, and sex
- Employment status by disability status
- Employment status of native- and foreign-born persons by sex
- Persons not in the labor force by desire and availability for work
- More database options for the labor force
Labor force status flows
Multiple jobholders
- Top series (seasonally adjusted level and rate)
- Multiple jobholders by sex
Not in the labor force
- Top series, including seasonally adjusted persons not in the labor force who currently want a job
- Persons not in the labor force by desire and availability for work
- More database options
Occupation and industry
- Employment and unemployment by occupation
- Unemployment by industry
- Earnings by major occupation group
- Earnings by union membership, occupation, and industry
- More database options for earnings by occupation
Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
- Employment status by race and sex
- Employment status of Hispanics and Latinos by sex
- Earnings by sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, including constant dollars
- Earnings by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
- Earnings by sex, race, and Hispanic ethnicity and by educational attainment, including earnings deciles and quartiles
- Union membership by age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and usual full- or part-time status
- Earnings by union membership, age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
- More database options
Self-employed persons (class of worker)
- Employed persons by class of worker, including unincorporated self-employment
- Self-employed persons (incorporated and unincorporated self-employed)
Unemployment
- Most requested series
- Retrieve historical data series from the Employment Situation news release
- Employment status by sex
- Employment status by race and sex
- Employment status of Hispanics and Latinos by sex
- Employment status by educational attainment
- Employment status by veteran status, period of service, and sex
- Employment status by disability status
- Employment status of native- and foreign-born persons by sex
- Unemployment levels and rates by age, sex, marital status
- Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment
- Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment
- Unemployment by major occupation group
- Unemployment by industry and class of worker
- More database options for unemployment
Alternative measures of labor underutilization (U-1 through U-6)
Union members
- Union membership rate (all years): Total Private sector Public sector
- Most requested union series
- Retrieve historical data series from union news release
- Union membership by age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and usual full- or part-time status
- Earnings by union membership, age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
- Union membership by occupation and industry
- Earnings by union membership, occupation, and industry
- Union membership by state
- More union database options
Veterans
- Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates: Veterans and nonveterans
- Employment status by veteran status, age, and sex, including detail for Gulf War-era II veterans
- Employment status by veteran status, period of service, and sex
Women
Last Modified Date: February 7, 2020