# Merging replicate weights onto the October CPS files

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/merging-replicate-weights-onto-the-october-cps-files/4621>\
**Category:** CPS\
**Created:** [April 20, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/merging-replicate-weights-onto-the-october-cps-files/4621 "2022-04-20T21:52:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matthew\_Bombyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Matthew\_Bombyk](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Matthew_Bombyk)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/merging-replicate-weights-onto-the-october-cps-files/4621/2 "2022-04-22T18:08:16Z")

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I’ll refer you to [this post](https://forum.ipums.org/t/food-security-supplement-questions/2478/4) for more detail, but the short answer is No, QSTNUM and OCCURNUM are not available through IPUMS CPS, but you can merge them to an IPUMS CPS extract via a two-step process using the NBER CPS data files as an intermediary.

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