U.S. Census Bureau to provide CPS modernization update in webinar
A long-running federal labor survey is undergoing changes as officials respond to falling response rates and rising collection costs. The U.S. Census Bureau says a webinar will outline progress on modernizing the Current Population Survey, a project launched with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2023.
Highlights
- The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a webinar to provide an update on the CPS modernization and outline next project steps.
- Declining response rates, increased labor and travel costs, and increased outreach challenges have prompted the CPS overhaul effort by the Census Bureau and BLS.
- The CPS remains a critical source of U.S. labor force statistics and informs policymaking with both core and supplemental data.
CPS overhaul timeline and challenges
As announced by the U.S. Census Bureau, the agency plans to hold a webinar to share updates on its modernization of the Current Population Survey, or CPS, and to outline the next steps in the effort.The project is being carried out jointly with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and is aimed at making the survey more sustainable. Officials say household surveys, including the CPS, have faced years of declining response rates, alongside higher labor and travel costs and a growing number of contacts needed to reach target sample sizes and hard-to-reach respondents.
Why the survey matters for U.S. labor data
The CPS was conceived in the 1930s to meet demand for unemployment statistics and has been conducted in its present form since 1948. Sponsored by the Census Bureau and BLS, it remains a primary source of labor force statistics for the U.S. population.Beyond monthly labor market readings, the survey also supports policymaking on the nation’s social and economic well-being through supplemental questions added to the basic monthly questionnaire. The webinar is also set to include a question-and-answer session immediately after the presentation.
Our earlier coverage on early-career job-hopping highlighted research showing that frequent job changes can be a major driver of wage growth and a pathway to better long-term job matches. It also noted the disconnect between cultural skepticism toward short tenures and evidence that labor mobility can strengthen earnings and career stability over time.
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