Basic CPS Interviewers Manual

• Detailed Table of Contents
• The Current Population Survey
• Conducting the CPS Interview
• Employment Concepts
• Unemployment Concepts
• Not in Labor Force Concepts
• Industry and Occupation Concepts
• Earnings and Union Membership Concepts
• Overview of the CPS Instrument
• The "Front" of the CPS Interview
• CPS Demographic Data
• The Labor Force Interview
• The "Back" of the CPS Interview
• Noninterviews
• General Description of Housing Vacancy Survey
• Instructions for Completing HVS Items
• The HVS Items
• Examples of Industry Responses Needing Special Reporting
• Examples of Occupation Responses Needing Special Reporting
• List of CAPI and CATI Outcome Codes and Descriptions
• Items Book List of All Instrument Screens

Section I - Interviewers Instructions

Section II - Interviewers Instructions

Self-Study Answer Key

Practice Interview 1

Contingent Workers Supplement Data Collection Page

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