Data Watch: The Redesigned Current Population Survey

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 169-180

  Polivka, Anne E ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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EID: 0000717159     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.10.3.169     Document Type: Article

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