# Longitudinal weight for the CPS

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/longitudinal-weight-for-the-cps/1375>\
**Category:** CPS\
**Created:** [August 1, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/longitudinal-weight-for-the-cps/1375 "2016-08-01T03:07:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![do087](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@do087](https://forum.ipums.org/u/do087)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/longitudinal-weight-for-the-cps/1375/1 "2016-08-01T03:07:00Z")

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Hi,

I’m linking individual records across the CPS monthly samples using CPSID and CPSIDP. I’m just wondering if the MPC offers longitudinal weight. The weight variables I found on the CPS website are for cross-sectional data.

Thank you very much!

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**Author:** ![grover](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.ipums.org/grover/32/5_2.png) [@grover](https://forum.ipums.org/u/grover)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/longitudinal-weight-for-the-cps/1375/2 "2016-08-08T17:09:00Z")

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While the Census Bureau does not provide longitudinal weights, the IPUMS-CPS team is currently looking into generating longitudinal weights for the linked CPS data. Unfortunately, I am not able to provide a timeline for the release of these longitudinal weights at this time.

I’m sorry I could not be of more help.