A python package for working with the Current Population Survey.

Warning this is alpha quality. The API will change. Docs are coming.

Neither the Census Bureau nor the NBER provide a clean, RESTful API for getting CPS data. This makes working with the CPS a pain, and reproducibility nearly impossible.

There's a few related functions PyCPS provides:

1. Downloading data dictionaries and monthly data files
2. Standardizing variables across months
3. Merging to create time series

• From pip: pip install pycps

• From source:

  git clone https://github.com/TomAugspurger/pycps
  cd pycps
  pip install .
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

See requirements.txt

Installing via pip will take care of most everything, however I've had some troubles automating the installation of pytables. I recommend installing that separately with pip instsall tables.

Developed with python 3, aims to be compatible with python 2.