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Current Population Survey Computer and Internet Use Supplement
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The Current Population Survey (CPS) Computer and Internet Use Supplement collects household information from all eligible CPS households, as well as person information from household members 3 years old and over. Data are provided about the household's computer and internet use and about each household member's use of the internet from any location in the past year. It also asked about a random respondent's use of the Internet. The universe consists of all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States living in households. The probability sample selected to represent the universe consists of approximately 56,000 households.
The project review timeframes above do not apply to applications that request access to confidential data assets commingled with data that are either not owned, or are only co-owned, by the statistical agency(s) or unit(s) and require approval from third parties not subject to this policy (e.g., state and local government agencies).
Detailed Methodology
The probability sample selected to represent the universe consists of approximately 50,000 households.
- Survey (self- or interviewer-administered)
The data processing involved a consistency edit and allocation module for all computer and internet use supplement items. The consistency edit mainly ensured that the entries within an individual record followed the correct skip pattern. Items with missing values were assigned values, if appropriate. When a response is not obtained for a particular data item, or an inconsistency in reported items is detected, an "imputed" response is entered in the field. Imputation is performed using a "hot deck" method, whereby a response from another sample person with similar demographic and economic characteristics is used for the nonresponse. The imputation procedure is performed one item at a time.