Measuring the Foreign-Born Population in the United States with the Current Population Survey: 1994-2002. Population Division Working Paper No. 73

摘要

For over sixty years, the Federal Government has collected information about the population ofthe United States using the Current Population Survey. The Census Bureau assumedresponsibility for the CPS in 1942. In 1959, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department ofLabor assumed responsibility for analysis and publication of labor force and employment datafrom the monthly CPS.14 The basic or monthly survey captures information about age, race, sex, and, beginning in 1994, nativity status. Supplemental questions have been added to the corequestionnaire on both a random and periodic basis. For example, special supplements containing immigration-related questions were added to the basic CPS in selected months in the 1980s and in 1991. On the other hand, the ASEC has never included questions beyond the core items.