Our Real-Time Population Survey (RPS)

Overview

The survey is designed by the authors and administered online to respondents of the Qualtrics panel.

Our sample of respondents is selected to be representative of the US population (ages 18-64 for waves 1 and 6 on, 18+ for waves 2-5) along several characteristics (age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, presence of children, geographic region, and household income in 2019).

The micro data underlying the RPS are available from OpenICPSR.

  • Wave 22: Reference week 06/06 - 06/12; 2,050 respondents surveyed on June 14 - 16, 2021

  • Wave 21: Reference week 05/09 - 05/15; 2,050 respondents surveyed on May 17 - 19, 2021

  • Wave 20: Reference week 04/11 - 04/17; 2,050 respondents surveyed on April 19 - 20, 2021

  • Wave 19: Reference week 03/07 - 03/13; 2,250 respondents surveyed on March 15 - 16, 2021

  • Wave 18: Reference week 02/07 - 02/13; 2,250 respondents surveyed on February 15 - 16, 2021

  • Wave 17: Reference week 01/10 - 01/16; 2,250 respondents surveyed on January 19 - 21, 2021

  • Wave 16: Reference week 12/06 - 12/11; 2,250 respondents surveyed on December 14 - 16, 2020

  • Wave 15: Reference week 11/08 - 11/14; 2,200 respondents surveyed on November 16 - 18, 2020

  • Wave 14: Reference week 10/11 - 10/17; 2,050 respondents surveyed on October 19 - 20, 2020

  • Wave 13: Reference week 09/27 - 10/03; 2,024 respondents surveyed on October 5 - 7, 2020

  • Wave 12: Reference week 09/06 - 09/12; 3,241 respondents surveyed on September 14 - 15, 2020

  • Wave 11: Reference week 08/23 - 08/29; 2,048 respondents surveyed on August 31 - September 1, 2020

  • Wave 10: Reference week 08/09 - 08/15; 2,110 respondents surveyed on August 17 -18, 2020

  • Wave 9: Reference week 07/26 - 08/01; 2,016 respondents surveyed on August 3 - 4, 2020

  • Wave 8: Reference week 07/12 - 07/18; 3,117 respondents surveyed on July 20 - 22, 2020

  • Week 7: Reference week 06/21 - 06/27; 1,964 respondents surveyed on June 29 - July 01, 2020

  • Week 6: Reference week 06/07 - 06/13; 3,927 respondents surveyed on June 15 - 16, 2020

  • Wave 5: Reference week 05/24 - 05/30; 1,513 respondents surveyed on June 01 - 03, 2020

  • Wave 4: Reference week 05/10 - 05/16; 1,558 respondents surveyed on May 18 - 19, 2020

  • Wave 3: Reference week 04/26 - 05/02; 1,600 respondents surveyed on May 04 - 06, 2020

  • Wave 2: Reference week 04/12 - 04/18; 1,541 respondents surveyed on April 22 - 23, 2020

  • Wave 1: Reference week 03/29 - 04/04; 1,118 respondents surveyed on April 08 - 09, 2020

Citation and Use of Our Statistics

Publications and research reports based on our statistics must cite it appropriately. The citation should include the following:

"Bick, Alexander and Blandin, Adam (2020). "Real Time Labor Market Estimates During the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak." Working Paper

The Real-Time Population Survey is conducted in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The results from the Real-Time Population Survey do not represent official forecasts or views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, its President, the Federal Reserve System, or the Federal Open Market Committee.