Current Population Survey (CPS) Working Papers
Resarch and analysis of the Current Population Survey by Census Bureau authors.
2025
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Working PaperTime to Complete a Decomposed vs. a Condensed Survey QuestionComparison of the timing to complete a condensed versus a decomposed survey question.
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Working PaperPrivacy and Survey Response: Evidence from Broadband InternetWe provide new evidence on privacy and confidentiality concerns as a possible cause for declining response rates.
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Working PaperA Question Template for Non-Methodologists when RedesigningThis paper describes a question template used for a large redesign to capture goals in cognitive testing.
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Working PaperEnhancing Web Survey Data Quality While Minimizing BurdenThis experiment tested three approaches for reporting discrete values for mortgage, rent, utilities, and the down payment for home purchases.
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Working PaperCognitive Testing for an Internet Self-Response Mode of the CPS
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Working PaperTesting a Series of Categorical Earned Income Questions
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Working PaperRe-Evaluating Medicaid Reporting in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement: Evidence from Linked Enrollment RecordsThis paper examines record linkage between the 2017 CPS ASEC and Medicaid enrollment records.
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Working PaperDo Shortcut Checkboxes Help or Hurt in Web Surveys?Tested respondents’ receptivity to a checkbox that indicated an “all year” response to a question asking how many paychecks were received during the year.
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