CPS February 1997: Contingent Work Supplement
U.S. Census Bureau

ATTACHMENT 16

ALLOCATION FLAGS

Current Population Survey

For every edited item, there is a corresponding allocation flag with the prefix "PX". The last six characters of the names are the same. For example, PXMLR is the allocation flag for PEMLR. All allocation flags have the following list of possible values.

00 VALUE - NO CHANGE
01 BLANK - NO CHANGE
02 DON'T KNOW - NO CHANGE
03 REFUSED - NO CHANGE
10 VALUE TO VALUE
11 BLANK TO VALUE
12 DON'T KNOW TO VALUE
13 REFUSED TO VALUE
20 VALUE TO LONGITUDINAL VALUE
21 BLANK TO LONGITUDINAL VALUE
22 DON'T KNOW TO LONGITUDINAL VALUE
23 REFUSED TO LONGITUDINAL VALUE
30 VALUE TO ALLOCATED VALUE LONG.
31 BLANK TO ALLOCATED VALUE LONG.
32 DON'T KNOW TO ALLOCATED VALUE LONG.
33 REFUSED TO ALLOCATED VALUE LONG.
40 VALUE TO ALLOCATED VALUE
41 BLANK TO ALLOCATED VALUE
42 DON'T KNOW TO ALLOCATED VALUE
43 REFUSED TO ALLOCATED VALUE
50 VALUE TO BLANK
52 DON'T KNOW TO BLANK
53 REFUSED TO BLANK

Source: Microdata Access Branch, Administrative and Customer Services Division

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