The 2014-2015 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS)

Especially due to its large sample size and incorporation into the CPS survey, the TUS provides a unique opportunity for tracking long-term trends in tobacco use, cessation attempts, and tobacco-related policies; evaluation of tobacco control programs/interventions; study of tobacco-related health disparities; and conduct of other tobacco control research. TUS-CPS data can be analyzed at the U.S. and state level, and at some sub-state levels.

Further, although tobacco researchers have access to a variety of sources when conducting population surveillance, the TUS-CPS affords additional, unique analytic opportunities. In particular, a range of novel analyses can be conducted through linkage of TUS-CPS data to the CPS’s detailed occupational, employment, and economic data contained within the same TUS-CPS file; to other CPS supplements; and through linkage of its tobacco control data to the National Longitudinal Mortality Study, which contains cancer incidence and survival, cause-specific mortality data, and Medicare screening, diagnosis, treatment, and healthcare cost data.