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| Current Population Survey |
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| Survey used in the U.S. to estimate the current unemployment rates. |
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| (PSU) a group within a population survey which consisted of a city, a county, or a group of contiguous counties. |
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| Groups of primary sampling units (PSU) that resemble each other on demographic and economic characteristics, and do not cross state lines. |
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| Ultimate Sampling Units (USUs) |
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| contains 4 housing units each |
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| A cluster is all or nothing. Everybody in the cluster gets into the sample or nobody does. People living in the same cluster tend to be similar to eachother and their personal information is parallel to eachother. Information about one says something about all the others within the cluster in terms of family background, educational history and employment status. |
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| the splitting of two independent pieces of a survey which have the same chance behavior. |
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| When a report is edited it is checked for incomplete or inconsistant entries. |
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| The survey reweights the sample so it agrees with data influency employment status. |
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