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CPS Supplement Chart (Alphabetical)

Topic  Month Years available 
Adult education   May 1978, 1981, 1984 
After-tax money income   March 1981-86, 1992-95 
Annual social and economic (ASEC) supplement
(see Demographic data)
   
Cell phone February 2004
Child care  June  1977, 1982 
Child care  December 1984
Child support and alimony (March/April match)   April  1979, 1982-2020 (even years)
Civic engagement November 2008-2011, 2013
Civic engagement September 2017
Computer use  November 1994
Computer and internet use July 2011, 2013, 2015
Computer and internet use  September  2001
Computer and internet use  October 1994, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012
Computer and internet use November 2007, 2017, 2019, 2021
Computer and internet use
(also see School enrollment and internet use)
December 1998
Computer/internet use  August 2000
Contingent workers   February 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2017
Contingent workers   May 2018
Covid-19 impact on work questions all months as of May 2020  
CPS/Social Security summary earnings exact match   March 1978
Demographic data (Annual Demographic File [ASEC])   March 1968-2019
Disability May 2012
Disability July  2019, 2021
Displaced workers  January 1984-1992, 2002-2022 (even years)
Displaced workers  February 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000
Education and school enrollment October  1968-2022
Educational attainment (also see GED recipiency) July  1995
Emigration (also see Immigration) June  not released
Emigration  July  not released
Employee benefits  April  1993
Employee benefits
(also see Health and pension benefits)
May 1988
Ethnic background and literacy   November 1969, 1979, 1989 
Farm wage workers   December 1975-87 (odd years) 
Fertility and birth expectations   June  1973-77, 1979-88, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998-2018 (even years), 2009
Fertility and birth expectations (June/March match)   June  1983
Food security (sufficiency)   April  1995-2001 (odd years)
Food security (sufficiency)   August 1998
Food security (sufficiency)   September 1996, 2000
Food security (sufficiency)   December 2001-2022
Food stamp participation  April  1975-77 
Food stamp participation  August 1977
Food stamp participation  December 1975
GED recipiency   December not released
Health and pension benefits
(also see Retiree health insurance)
September  1994
Housing tenure/children  January 1972, 1974-77 
Housing tenure/children  July  1977, 1978 
Housing vacancy monthly 1956-present
Immigration  April  1983
Immigration (April/March/June match)   April  1983
Immigration (also see Emigration) June  1986, 1988, 1991 
Immigration/emigration August 2008
Immigration/emigration/language  November 1989
Immunization (also see Swine flu immunization) September 1969, 1977-85 
International migration   August 2008
Job finding   January 1973
Job search of the employed   May 1977
Job search of the unemployed   May 1976
Job tenure and occupational mobility   January 1973, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1991, 2002-2020 (even years)
Job tenure and occupational mobility February 1996, 1998, 2000
Job tenure January 2022
Job training   January 1983, 1984, 1991  (note some questions in January 1987 Occupational Mobility Supplement related to job training)
Language proficiency and disability October 2004
Lead paint  December 1994
Lead paint hazard awareness  June  1997
Library use October 2002
Marital history   June  1985, 1990, 1995 
Marriage and birth history   June  1975, 1980, 1985, 1990
Marriage and fertility June 1976, 1977, 1980-1984, 1986-1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998-2022 (even years)
Multiple job holding   November not released
Multiple job holding and premium pay   May 1969-81, 1985, 1989, 1991 
Pension/retirement coverage (May/March/June match)  May 1979, 1983, 1988 
Post-secondary school enrollment  May 1974
Post-secondary school enrollment  October 1973
Private household workers   May 1971
Private household workers   November 1974
Public participation in the arts February 2013-2016, 2018, 2020
Public participation in the arts May 2008
Public participation in the arts July          2012, 2017, 2022
Public participation in the arts August 2002
Race and ethnicity  May 1995
Race and ethnicity  July  2000
Receipt of pension benefits   December 1989
Recent college graduates   October not released
Retiree health insurance
(also see Health and pension benefits)  
August 1988
School enrollment and education October 1968-2021
School enrollment and internet use
(also see Computer and internet use)
October 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012
 
School lunch program participants   August 1977
Shift work/flexitime   May 1980, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991 
Smoking  August 1967-68 
Smoking (also see Tobacco use) September  1985, 1989, 1990 
Survey of languages   July  1975
Swine flu immunization   April  not released
Telephone availability (also see Cell phone) March 1984-2001
Telephone availability  July  1984-2001
Telephone availability  November 1983-2001 
Tobacco use (also see Smoking) January 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019
Tobacco use  February 2002, 2003
Tobacco use  May 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2010, 2011 (follow-up of May 2010), 2015, 2019
Tobacco use  June  2001, 2003
Tobacco use July 2014, 2018
Tobacco use August 2006, 2010
Tobacco use  September 1992, 1995, 1998, 2022
Tobacco use  November 2001, 2003
Unbanked underbanked  January 2009
Unbanked underbanked June 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
Unemployment compensation January 2005
Unemployment compensation  February 1990, 1993, 2022
Unemployment compensation  May 1989, 2005, 2018, 2022
Unemployment compensation  June  1993
Unemployment compensation August 1989, 1993 
Unemployment compensation September 2018
Unemployment compensation  November 1989, 1993 
Unemployment insurance January, May, July, November 2005
Unemployment insurance May, September 2018
Value of noncash benefits   March 1980, 1982-86, 1992-95 
Veterans   April  1985
Veterans July 2010
Veterans  August 1995, 1997, 2001-2009 (odd years), 2011-2023
Veterans  September  1989, 1991, 1993, 1999 
Veterans  November 1987
Volunteer/s September 2002-2015, 2017
Volunteer work   April  1974
Volunteer workers May 1989
Volunteering and civic life September 2017
Voting and registration November 1972-2022 (even years) 
Work schedule/home-based work May 1991, 1997, 2001, 2004
     
Sources:    
Census and You, September 1996 (pp. 8-9)    
CPS Technical Paper 63RV, Design and Methodology,
March
2002 
(p. 94)  
Census Bureau web site    
Current Population Survey: Supplemental Surveys