Table 8.

Number and Percentage of People Responding to Any CPS Survey in Month-in-Samples 5 through 8 among those First Responding to the CPS in Month-in-Sample 1 in January 1994 and 2009

	1994
	All Links	Retention Rate	Plausible Links	Retention Rate
Began CPS in month-in-sample 1 in January 1994…	16,863	—	—	—
…and also responded in ANY subsequent survey between January 1995 (in month-in-sample 5) and April 1995 (in month-in- sample 8)	11,910	70.6%	11,308	67.1%
	2009
	All Links	Retention Rate	Plausible Links	Retention Rate
Began CPS in month-in-sample 1 in January 2009…	16,942	—	—	—
…and also responded in ANY subsequent survey between January 2010 (in month-in-sample 5) and April 2010 (in month-in- sample 8)	13,874	81.9%	12,911	76.2%

Note: Separately for people entering the CPS in January 1994 and January 2009, the table reports unweighted samples sizes for the number of people participating in any of the CPS surveys for which they were eligible between January and April of the following year. For example, among the 16,863 people who began the CPS in January of 1994, there were 11,910 (or 70.6%) who participated in at least one more survey between January 1995 and April 1995. The column labeled “plausible” omits apparent matches when respondents’ sex or race/ethnicity differs or when their age differs implausibly.