The Current Population Survey Civic Engagement and Volunteering (CEV) Supplement is the most robust longitudinal survey about volunteerism and other forms of civic engagement in the United States. Produced by AmeriCorps in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, the CEV takes the pulse of our nation’s civic health every two years. The data on this page was collected in September 2021.

The CEV can generate reliable estimates at the national level, within states and the District of Columbia, and in the largest twelve Metropolitan Statistical Areas to support evidence-based decision making and efforts to understand how people make a difference in communities across the country.

Click on "Export" to download and review an excerpt from the 2021 CEV Analytic Codebook that shows the variables available in the analytic CEV datasets produced by AmeriCorps.

Click on "Show More" to download and review the following 2021 CEV data and resources provided as attachments:

1) 2021 CEV Dataset Fact Sheet – brief summary of technical aspects of the 2021 CEV dataset. 2) CEV FAQs – answers to frequently asked technical questions about the CEV 3) Constructs and measures in the CEV 4) 2021 CEV Analytic Data and Setup Files – analytic dataset in Stata (.dta), R (.rdata), SPSS (.sav), and Excel (.csv) formats, codebook for analytic dataset, and Stata code (.do) to convert raw dataset to analytic formatting produced by AmeriCorps. These files were updated on January 16, 2025 to correct erroneous missing values for the ssupwgt variable. 5) 2021 CEV Technical Documentation – codebook for raw dataset and full supplement documentation produced by U.S. Census Bureau 6) Nonresponse Bias Analysis produced by U.S. Census Bureau 7) 2021 CEV Raw Data and Read In Files – raw dataset in Stata (.dta) format, Stata code (.do) and dictionary file (.dct) to read ASCII dataset (.dat) into Stata using layout files (.lis)