Basic Monthly Survey

Weighting Variables

HWHHWGT
Weight-household

Household Weight
(length=10 With 4 Implied Decimals)

0.0:99999.9999 RANGE

PWCMPWGT (Jan 1998 - )
Weight-composited final weight

Person's final composited weight. Used to tabulate BLS's official published labor force statistics. (4 implied decimal places)
Universe = PRPERTYP = 2 and PTAGE = 16+

0.0:99999.9999

PWFMWGT
Weight-family

Family Weight
(length=10 With 4 Implied Decimals)

0.0:99999.9999 RANGE

PWLGWGT
Weight-longitudinal weight

Longitudinal Weight
(length=10 With 4 Implied Decimals)

0.0:99999.9999 RANGE

PWORWGT
Weight-outgoing rotation weight

Outgoing Rotation Weight - only for use with earnings, discouraged worker or second job industry and Occupation items
(length=10 With 4 Implied Decimals)

0.0:99999.9999 RANGE

PWSSWGT
Weight-second stage weight (rake 6 final step weight)

Second Stage Weight
(length=10 With 4 Implied Decimal Places)

0.0:99999.9999 RANGE

PWVETWGT
Weight-veterans weight

Veterans Weight
(4 Implied Decimals)
Used for Tallying Veteran's Data Only, Controlled to Estimates of Veterans Supplied by VA.
Edited Universe
PRPERTYP = 2

0.0:99999.9999 RANGE

Basic Monthly Survey Data Page

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Author: Greg Weyland-Census/DSD/CPSB
Contact: (ask.census.gov) CPS Help-Census/DSD/CPSB
Last revised: February 11, 2000
URL: http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/basic/ddwgtv.htm