DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE 2002 AND 2003

 ANNUAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SUPPLEMENT FILES

 

 

1.   The 2003 Annual Social and Economic

     Supplement (ASEC) was formerly known as

     the Annual Demographic File (ADF).  The

     data content generally remains the same;

     only the name has changed.

 

2.   Revised race categories: Beginning in

     January 2003, persons were able to report

     more than one race in the CPS.  As a result,

     PRDTRACE replaces A_RACE in the 2003

     ASEC file.  And, PRDTRACE occupies two

     positions (24-25) in the person record,

     whereas A_RACE occupied one position

     (25).

     Revised origin variables: A-REORGN no

     longer resides on the file.  PEHSPNON and

     PRDTHSP indicate Hispanic origin and

     detailed Hispanic origin respectively; they

     occupy positions 27 and 28 respectively.

 

3.   Revised Industry and Occupation

     classification: Beginning in January 2003,

     the CPS began using the North American

     Industry Classification System (NAICS)

     based on the Census 2000 industry and

     occupation codes.  The new classification

     system and industry/occupation descriptions

     appear in Appendices A and B.  PEIOIND

     AND PEIOOCC replace A-IND and

     A-OCC on the file, and occupy positions

     87-94 instead of 103-108.

 

     The other variables affected by this new

     classification are:

     A-DTIND, A-MJIND, A-DTOCC, A-MJOCC,

     INDUSTRY, OCCUP, POCCU2, WEMOCG,

     WEIND, and WEMIND

 

     INDUSTRY and OCCUP have moved from

     positions 190-195 to 904-911.

 

4.   The item PEINUSYR (location 731 on the

     person record) has a revised description for

     PEINUSYR = 17, which now means 2000 -

     2003.

 

5.   Allocation items AXRACE (position 498)

     and AXORIGIN (499) no longer reside on

     the file.

 

6.   A new variable resides at the end of the

     person record.  PERIDNUM is a unique

     person identifier, and occupies positions

     912-932.

 

7.   Revised Topcodes: As in previous years, all

     earnings and income items were subject to

     topcoding this year.  This year, topcodes

     increased  for 1) main job earnings, 2) other

     wage and salary, 3) other non-farm self-

     employed earnings, 4) rent, and 5) alimony.

     The topcode for interest decreased.  See

     chart #1 for the new earnings topcodes.

     Topcoded values were replaced with the

     average across all topcoded records.  Chart

     #2 provides these average amounts for the

     12 socioeconomic cells within which we

     computed these averages.  Cells with a   did

     not have any topcoded records.  Cells with

     an asterisk (*) were collapsed together.

     Chart #3 contains the topcodes and average

     amounts for the noncash items.

 

 

 

 

                 Chart #1

 

        Topcode Amounts for Earnings Fields

 

     Field             Topcode

     ERN-VAL          $200,000

     WS-VAL             35,000

     SE-VAL             50,000

     FRM-VAL            25,000

 

 

                 Chart #2

                               

   Average (Replacement) Values for Earnings Fields

 

   Cell           ERN-VAL       WS-VAL       SE-VAL    FRM-VAL       

 

M, NBH, FTYR      $390,823    $ 91,360     $141,605   $ 65,682

M, NBH, OTH        487,716      63,217      193,633    107,814

M, B, FTYR         443,501      60,724      149,560*   199,326*

M, B, OTH                -      48,548*           -          -

M, H, FTYR         562,913      49,866      149,560*   199,326*

M, H, OTH                -      49,483            -          -

F, NBH, FTYR       480,607      55,255       75,880     46,839

F, NBH, OTH        343,880      51,520      149,560*   199,326*

F, B, FTYR         336,975      48,548*           -          -

F, B, OTH                -      48,548*           -          -

F, H, FTYR         595,494      57,290            -    199,326*

F, B, OTH                -           -            -          -

 

 

Cell Definition: (Key)

 

Column 1:         Sex:

                  M=Male

                  F=Female

 

Column 2:         Race/Origin

                  NBH=Not Black, Not Hispanic

                  B=Black

                  H=Hispanic

 

Column 3:         Work Experience:

                  FTYR=Full Year (50+ weeks), Full Time (35+ hours per week)

                  OTH=Not Full Year, Full Time

 

 

 

                      Chart #3

 

        Income Source          Topcode             Average

 

        SUR-VAL1               $50,000             $86,529*

        SUR-VAL2                50,000              86,529*

        DIS-VAL1                35,000              66,563

        DIS-VAL2                35,000                   -

        RET-VAL1                45,000              63,889

        RET-VAL2                45,000              81,933

        INT-VAL                 25,000              50,186

        DIV-VAL                 15,000              33,581

        RNT-VAL                 40,000              72,409

        ED-VAL                  20,000              31,142

        CSP-VAL                 15,000              25,714

        ALM-VAL                 45,000              54,886

        FIN-VAL                 30,000              60,846

        OI-VAL                  25,000              58,194

 

 

The data after topcoding were used to create all combined income recodes on the file.