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Migration/Geographic Mobility User Notes

In addition to errata notes, there may be user notes to give caution, discuss weighting and estimation, explain variables, and so on.

To learn more about user notes related to the Migration/Geographic Mobility data products, see the list below of each user note and click each link to access a more detailed description.

User Notes

ASEC User Note: Update of Geographic Mobility Table Package: 2023

December 10, 2024

Some updates were made for the 2023 1-year Geographic Mobility table package.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Redesign of Geographic Mobility Table Package: 2022

August 10, 2023

Some revisions were made for the 2022 1-year Geographic Mobility table package.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Migration universes, householders, and group quarters

January 26, 2023

Clarifications and corrections regarding migration universes, householders, and persons in group quarters.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Redesign of the CPS ASEC 5-year Detailed Table Package for Geographic Mobility: 2020

January 26, 2023

Some revisions were made for the 2020 5-year Geographic Mobility table package.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Redesign of the Geographic Mobility Table Package: 2021

November 17, 2021

Some revisions were made for the 2021 Geographic Mobility table package.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Updates to Reasons for Moving Categories: 2020

December 15, 2020

Updates to the reason for moving categories included the addition of a new category, “relationship with unmarried partner (boy/girlfriend, fiancé, etc.).”
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Update and Clarification on Poverty Universe: 2020

December 15, 2020

As of 2020, tables that reference poverty status include clarification about the poverty universe.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Geographic Mobility Table Package Redesign: 2020 1-yr

December 15, 2020

Some revisions were made for the 2020 Geographic Mobility table package.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: College Dormitories Removed from CPS Sample: 2018

November 27, 2018

As of the 2018 CPS-ASEC, college and university dormitories are no longer included in the sample.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Data Processing Changes: 2019 CPS ASEC

November 20, 2019

The 2019 CPS ASEC Migration data products include recent CPS ASEC data processing changes.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Revised: Reason for Move Write-In Expansion

July 02, 2019

This is a revised version of a user note originally published in 2016. It includes some updates and corrections since the original user note.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: 2015 CPS ASEC Omission of Metro/Nonmetro Tables

February 01, 2015

For the 2015 CPS ASEC geographical mobility package, the metropolitan mobility detailed tables 14 through 16 are not included.
User Notes

ACS Migration Flow User Note: Omission of MCD Flows 2009 5-year ACS

January 01, 2009

The 2005-2009 5-year Migration Flow tables, March 28, 2012, don’t included records for movers among minor civil divisions within the same county.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Corrections to CBSA Status: 2018

November 27, 2018

The 2018 CPS-ASEC data include corrections to core-based statistical area (CBSA) status that were not made to some earlier data.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Clarification in the 2019 Metropolitan Migration Tables

November 20, 2019

“Principal cities” and “balances of principal cities” refer to geographies within metropolitan areas. Clarifying language has been added to the 2019 tables.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: 2014 CPS ASEC Sample

November 20, 2019

The source of data for the 2014 tables is the CPS ASEC sample of 98,000 addresses.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Potential Display Issue, Reason for Move: 2012-2015

July 02, 2019

A potential display issue in the data collection instrument could have introduced response bias during the 2012-2015 CPS-ASEC data collection.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Reason for Move Write-In Expansion Recoding Updates

July 02, 2019

This is a revised version of a user note originally published in 2016. It includes some updates and corrections since the original user note.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Replaced: Reason for Move Write-In Expansion

January 01, 2016

This user note has been replaced. Please see the revised version of the user note for more information.
User Notes

CPS User Note: 2014 CPS ASEC Omission of Table 5, 10, 20, and 22

January 01, 2014

The 2014 CPS ASEC included redesigned questions for income and health insurance coverage.
User Notes

CPS User Note: 2012 CPS ASEC Foreclosure/Eviction Reason

December 01, 2012

In 2011, a foreclosure/eviction category was created from write-in responses to the reason for move question in the ASEC of the CPS.
User Notes

CPS User Note: 2005 CPS ASEC Omission of Metro/Nonmetro Tables

September 26, 2006

For the 2005 CPS ASEC geographical mobility package, the metropolitan mobility detailed tables 22 through 29 are not included.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Migration Questions 1971 through 1980

November 20, 2019

The 1-year geographic mobility question was not asked from 1972 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1980.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: 2015 CPS ASEC 5-year Omission of Metro/Nonmetro Tables

November 15, 2017

For the 2015 CPS ASEC 5-year geographical mobility package, the metropolitan mobility detailed tables are not included.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Migration Question Wording Change in 2004

November 20, 2019

Before 2004, the question asked about residence on March 1 of the previous year. As of 2004, it asked about residence one year ago.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Changes to Some CBSA Status Descriptions: 2018

November 27, 2018

The 2018 tables describe balances of metropolitan areas instead of suburbs.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Distance of Move Estimates from 2003 to 2005

November 20, 2019

A change in processing resulted in a shift in the distribution of movers and distance moved between the 2002-2003 to 2004-2005 periods.
User Notes

CPS User Note: 2004 CPS ASEC Omission of Metro/Nonmetro Tables

June 23, 2005

For the 2004 CPS ASEC geographical mobility package, the metropolitan mobility detailed tables 22 through 29 are not included.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Income Categories Collapsed as of 2019

November 20, 2019

As of the 2019 migration table package, some income categories have been collapsed. All new categories are combinations of categories included in 2018.
User Notes

CPS User Note: Redesign of the 2007 CPS ASEC Detailed Table Package

September 01, 2008

The Journey to Work and Migration Branch has produced annual tables on geographical mobility since 1947.
User Notes

CPS User Note: Geographic Mobility Table Package Redesign: 2010 5-year

December 01, 2012

Beginning in 1975, the Journey to Work and Migration Branch produced mid-decade tables, years ending in 5, containing 5-year geographical mobility data.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Redesign of the 2015 CPS ASEC Detailed Table Package

January 01, 2015

The Journey to Work and Migration Statistics Branch has produced annual tables on geographical mobility since 1947.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Redesign of the CPS ASEC Detailed Table Package: 2017

November 16, 2017

The number of tables for the 2017 Geographical Mobility package was reduced.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Redesign of Geographic Mobility Table Package: 2018

November 27, 2018

The number of tables for the 2018 Geographic Mobility table package was reduced, and some revisions were made.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Redesign of the Geographic Mobility Table Package: 2019

November 20, 2019

Some revisions were made for the 2019 Geographic Mobility table package.
User Notes

ASEC User Note: Redesign of the CPS ASEC 5-year 2015 Detailed Tables

November 15, 2017

The number of tables for the 2015 5-year Geographical Mobility package was reduced.