Most-Requested CPS Publications

• Employment Situation news release (HTML) (PDF) (Charts) (Archives) (Schedule)
  • Effects of COVID-19 pandemic and response on the Employment Situation (Monthly impact summary for March 2020 through December 2021)
• How the government measures unemployment (HTML) (PDF)
• Other economic news releases
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual tables
• Technical documentation
  • Handbook of Methods
  • Concepts and definitions
  • Seasonal adjustment
  • Occupational and industry classification 
  • More CPS technical documentation
• Browse data and publications by subject: CPS A to Z, demographics, labor force characteristics, and earnings

Research by CPS Staff

Looking for in-depth analysis? Find articles written by CPS staff using the searchable table on this page.

CPS Reports and Summaries

• Minimum wage workers:  Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2024  (Archives, Excel tables, and more)
• Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity:  Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2023   (Archives and more)
• Earnings:  Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2024  (Archives, Excel tables, and more)
• Women:  Women in the Labor Force: A Databook  (Archives and more)
• Working Poor:  latest data, historical archive and more
• From the archives: Charting the U.S. Labor Market (2006) (2005)
• Browse data and publications by subject: CPS A to Z, demographics, labor force characteristics, and earnings

CPS Survey Methods Publications

• Handbook of Methods
• Methodology for seasonally adjusting national household labor force series
• Adjustments to household survey population estimates
• Current Population Survey, design and methodology (Technical paper 77) (October 2019) (PDF) 
  (list of formulas, expressions, and component variables in spoken version - XLSX)
  • Previous versions of CPS design and methodology:
    • Technical paper 66, October 2006 (PDF)
    • Technical paper 63, revised March 2002 (PDF)
    • Technical paper 63, March 2000 (PDF)

Last Modified Date: October 26, 2026