Food Security Supplement questions

IPUMS CPS does not currently offer the replicate weights for supplements other than the ASEC. You can find the replicate weights on the Census Bureau website. The NBER site also has these weights for 2010-2017 in various file formats. You can link these to IPUMS data but you’ll need to do it in two steps.

  1. First link the weights to the raw public-use data file. The public use files along with codes to load the data are available at the NBER website. In order to link the weights to the CPS data, you can use the variable QSTNUM which is a unique household identifier.

  2. Once you’ve linked the weights to the raw CPS public use data files, you can link these to your IPUMS CPS extract using the instructions on this blog post.