Current Population Survey, March/April 1990 Match Files : Alimony and Child Support / United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the CensusUnited States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

United States. Bureau of the Census.

United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 4378.

ICPSR ; 4378

Current Population Survey Series ; 4378

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This data collection is comprised of responses from the March and April installments of the 1990 Current Population Survey (CPS). Both the March and April surveys used two sets of questions, the basic CPS and a separate supplement for each month. The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment. In addition to the basic CPS questions, respondents were asked supplemental questions in March about the economic situation of persons and families for the previous year. About 39,000 of the housing units interviewed in March were interviewed again in April. In these housing units all women 15 years of age and older who had children were asked the April CPS supplemental questions. These questions concerned child support and alimony payments. Of the 43,018 women found eligible in March, 39,474 of them women matched women interviewed in April. For the remaining 3,544 women interviewed in March, the child support and alimony information was imputed. Information regarding child support and alimony was collected to determine the size and distribution of the female population with children affected by divorce or separation. Moreover, the data were collected to better understand the characteristics of persons requiring child support and alimony, and to help develop and maintain programs designed to assist in obtaining child support. These data highlight alimony and child support arrangements made at the time of separation or divorce, amount of payments actually received, and value and type of any property s ... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04378.

Contents:

Part 1: Current Population Survey, March/April 1990 Match Files: Alimony and Child Support

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2009-04-22.

Start: 1989-03; and end: 1990-04.

OCLC:

436450084

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.