How to get the CPS for the NHANES?

Tips - NHANES: Where and how to get the CPS population for the NHANES?

The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The survey has been conducted for more than 50 years.

The NCHS of CDC used the the civilian noninstitutionalized U.S. population information of CPS at specific time point for the post-stratification to match the population control totals for each sampling subdomain, usually the post-stratification structure defined by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. For NHANES III, the structure has 12 age groups, 2 sex groups, and 4 race groups (Non-Hispanic black, Non-Hispanic black, Mexican American, and Other); this means there are 96 cells. You can find the response rate and CPS population for different surveys here. or you can find it from original NHANES demographic data using the same age, sex, and race/ethnicity structure and interview weights [for example, Stata: .svy: tab agesexracegrp, count obs format(%12.0f)]. Theoretically, to a picky epidemiologist/statistician, CPS population information is important to get correct national total estimates, dealing with missing data (reweight), or doing bootstrap analysis of complex survey data.