Hello,
This is my first time using the IPUMS CPS data. I am trying to construct income components of custodial parents using the CPS March Supplement from 2021, and I could not find any variable for the stimulus payments that are there in the Census Bureau PUF[https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-papers/2021/demo/sehsd-wp2021-18.pdf] (variable name EIP_CRD). Am I missing the name of the variable in IPUMS CPS? How can I link the Census Bureau ASEC data to IPUMS CPS so that I may incorporate this variable in my work?
Thanks,
Trisha Chanda
IPUMS CPS does not provide this data as a harmonized variable. However, it is available in the unharmonized variable UH_EIPCRD_A1. Unharmonized variables provide the original data released by the Census Bureau and have not been edited by IPUMS for comparability across samples.
You can access unharmonized variables through either the drop-down menus on the variable selection page by filling in the corresponding (“unharmonized variables”) bubble, or by searching using keywords in our variable search tool and including unharmonized variables under variable type.
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