CPS Documentation Files and Link

CPS Documentation Files and Links

CPS Main Page
Articles describing data construction for unionstats.com
- Hirsch, Barry T., and David A. Macpherson. "Union membership and coverage database from the current population survey: Note." ILR Review 56, no. 2 (2003): 349-354.
- Macpherson, David A., and Barry T. Hirsch. "Five decades of CPS wages, methods, and union‐nonunion wage gaps at Unionstats. com." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society (2023).
Equivalence/differences in UnionStats.com and BLS estimates of union membership and density
CPS State Codes
CPS Metropolitan Area Classifications
CPS Industry Classifications
- 2020 to present
- 2014 to 2019
- 2009 to 2013

CPS Occupation Classifications

Other Links
- Summary of 1980/90 Ind/Occ Changes; Program to Create Time-Consistent Industry and Occupation Codes
- State Union Density in the U.S., 1964-2021 (Hirsch, Macpherson, Vroman, Monthly Labor Review article, union % of total non-agricultural employment)
- Right to Work By the Numbers (2016), includes graphics and discussion of RTW
- Mappings of Union Membership and Density (2013), 3-yr moving averages of national & state data
- Metropolitan area figures showing employment, union membership, and density (2013)
- Graphics from Colin Gordon (University of Iowa) using data from UnionStats: "State of the Unions" (2019) in Dissent Magazine. Graphics showing state union densities over time from Unionstats. Very nice!
- Consumer Price Index: Html Excel
- Pareto Estimates of Mean Earnings for those at or above top-codes: 1973 to 2024. Html Excel