CPS: h-year
CPS: a-age, peage
CPS: h-month, hrmonth
CPS: h-mis, hrmis
ORG consists of months 4 and 8 only
CPS: derived from a-sex, pesex
CPS: derived from a-race, perace, a-reorgn, prorigin
CPS: derived from a-maritl, prmarsta
CPS: derived by NBER from a-pfnocd, prnmchld
CPS: hg-st60, gestcen
Available 2003-
Not compatible with occ70, occ80
Available 2003- only
CPS top code weekly earnings in 1983: 999
CPS top code weekly earnings in 1988: 999
CPS top code weekly earnings in 1993: 1923
CPS top code weekly earnings in 1998: 2884
CPS top code weekly earnings in 2003: 2884
CPS top code weekly earnings in 2008: 2884
U ALL HHLDs IN SAMPLE
by Jean Roth, jroth@nber.org Mon Mar  9 11:44:30 EDT 2009
Age 16 and older only
CPS: hrmonth
CPS: hrmis
Longitudinal link is month-to-month, not year to year
CPS: hrlonglk
CPS: pesex, adsex
Racial and ethnic categories are mutually exclusive
Major recoding of race variable in 2003
From 2003, black includes all respondents listing black; other  includes all respondents listing non-white or non-black races, except  those also listing black
CPS: derived from perace, prdtrace, and prorigin
Not available 1979-1993
CPS: derived from prcitshp
CPS: derived from prmarsta, a-maritl
Number of own children under 18 in primary family
1991: top-code=8
Not available in CPS for years 1994 to 1999:10
Available 1984-93 and 1999:11- only
CPS: derived from prnmchld, a-pfnocd
CPS: derived from a-lfsr, pemlr
Available 1994- only
CPS: derived from prunedur
Not available before 1983
Union member or covered by union contract
CPS: derived from a-unmem, peernlab, a-uncov, peerncov
hg-st60, gestcen
Use with state code to create unique county
Available 2011-2013
CPS: gtco
Follows Jaeger (1997) classifications
CPS: derived from a-hga, a-hgc, peeduca
Not available 1979-2002
Label includes 4-digit 2002 NAICS equivalents
CPS: prdtind1
Based on NAICS 2002
"*" indicates code changed from 2000  (In addition to adding of fourth digit)
"**" indicates industry content changed from 2000,  name may have changed
"***" indicates new industry
"****" indicates industry name changed, content did not
Available 2012-2013
CPS: peio1icd
Based on 2000 SOC codes
Not compatible with docc70, docc80
CPS: prdtocc1
Available 2003-2010
Not compatible with occ70, occ80, occ11
CPS: peio1ocd
Actual hours worked on all jobs
Edited
CPS: a-hrsl, pehractt
CPS: derived from a-wkstat, prwkstat
Indicates BLS records respondent's earnings by hour
Not a consistent indicator of "hourly worker" status
CPS: derived from a-hrlywk, peernhry
Dollars per hour
Excludes over-time, tips, commissions
Top-code 1979-84: 99.00
Top-code 1985-98: set so that hours worked times earnhre  < weekly earnings top-code
Top-code 1998-: set so that hours worked times earnhre  < 1,998, which is less than the weekly earnings top-code of 2,884  [BLS documentation; check]
Top-code 1985-: NBER states that top-code not applied  to all observations
Bottom-code: 1979-88: 0.50; 1994: 0.10; 1995: 0.20
CPS: a-herntp, prernhly, pternhly
Equals earnwke/uhourse
Top-codes vary by year
CPS: derived: a-werntp, preernwa, pternwa; a-uslhrs, peernhro
CPS top code weekly earnings in 2013: 2884
w_ln_no, converted to real wage using CPI-U-RS
Values less than $1 or greater than $200 (in 1989$) set to missing
Estimated mean above topcode differs by gender