Table 1.

Weighted Demographic Characteristics by Panel, 2013 CPS ASEC Content Test

	New CPS Design		Old CPS Design		New − Old	p
	%	SE of %	%	SE of %
Population size	N = 243, 474,924		N = 243, 474,924		n/a
Age
0–18	25.19	0.381	24.65	0.5599	0.53	.9158
19–34	19.68	1.2126	20.21	0.5194	−0.53
35–64	40.40	0.658	40.40	0.5782	0.00
65+	14.73	0.39	14.73	0.427	0.00
Sex
Female	51.42	0.5719	51.42	0.4419	0.00	1.0000
Male	48.58	0.5719	48.58	0.4419	0.00
Race/ethnicity
White/non‐Hispanic	65.69	0.558	65.69	0.9865	0.00	1.0000
Black/non‐Hispanic	10.91	0.4783	10.91	0.7295	0.00
Other/non‐Hispanic	8.05	0.2928	8.05	0.5763	0.00
Hispanic	15.34	0.451	15.34	0.8231	0.00
Education
Less than high school	16.25	0.4856	14.32	0.555	1.93	.0258
High school graduate	25.00	0.6249	25.79	0.6248	−0.78
Some college thru AA	26.63	0.6815	28.25	0.5784	−1.62
Bachelors or higher	32.12	0.6501	31.65	0.7294	0.47
Work status
Full time/full year	40.47	0.5351	38.98	0.688	1.48	.1487
Less than full time/full year	37.07	0.62	38.86	0.6764	−1.79
Did not work	22.46	0.6984	22.15	0.4665	0.31
Citizenship
U.S. citizen	93.65	0.413	94.61	0.3984	−0.96	.1061
Non‐U.S. citizen	6.35	0.413	5.39	0.3984	0.96
Self/proxy
Self	39.41	0.4916	40.42	0.4181	−1.01	.1037
Proxy	60.59	0.4916	59.58	0.4181	1.01
Household relationship
Household respondent	39.41	0.4916	40.42	0.4181	−1.01	.1170
Child of reference person	30.45	0.7919	28.95	0.5415	1.51
Other	30.14	0.4475	30.64	0.396	−0.50
Household size
1–4 person household	81.17	0.9723	82.20	0.9848	−1.03	.4495
5+ person household	18.83	0.9723	17.80	0.9848	1.03

N is the weighted population count. Unweighted n = 29,629 (Test n = 16,401; Control n = 13,228). Chi‐square p‐values are reported. Boldface values indicate statistical significance at p = .05.

Source: 2013 CPS ASEC Content Test.