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Basic Monthly CPS

The Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approval number for fiscal year 2024 is CBDRB‑ FY24‑0083.

The Data Management System (DMS) project number is P-7533126.

2023

Footnote #4 and 18 applies to this year.

Data and Documents

Data Dictionary [< 1.0 MB]

December

DOS/Windows [9.48 MB]
GNU gzip [9.48 MB]
CSV [116 MB]

November

DOS/Windows [9.55 MB]
GNU gzip [9.55 MB]
CSV [116 MB]

October

DOS/Windows [9.68 MB]
GNU gzip [9.68 MB]
CSV [118 MB]

September

DOS/Windows [9.54 MB]
GNU gzip [9.54 MB]
CSV [116 MB]

August

DOS/Windows [9.67 MB]
GNU gzip [9.67 MB]
CSV [118 MB]

July

DOS/Windows [9.62 MB]
GNU gzip [9.62 MB]
CSV [117 MB]

June

DOS/Windows [9.56 MB]
GNU gzip [9.56 MB]
CSV [117 MB]

May

DOS/Windows [9.55 MB]
GNU gzip [9.55 MB]
CSV [117 MB]

April

DOS/Windows [9.46 MB]
GNU gzip [9.46 MB]
CSV [116 MB]

March

DOS/Windows [9 MB]
GNU gzip [9 MB]
CSV [113 MB]

February

DOS/Windows [10 MB]
GNU gzip [10 MB]
CSV [404 MB]

January

DOS/Windows [10 MB]
GNU gzip [10 MB]
CSV [119 MB]

Related Information

Current Population Survey (CPS) Datasets

CPS Basic Monthly Footnotes

CPS Dataset Revision Archive

Page Last Revised - February 26, 2026

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