February 1, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Nearly two-thirds of workers are
employed year round, full time
Of the 144.8
million persons who
worked at some point in 1998, 65.6 percent were employed year round and
full time. This was up from 64.2 percent in 1997.
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The proportion of workers who were employed both year round and full
time in 1998 was the highest it has been in the nearly 50 years in which
the data have been collected. Year-round workers are employed for 50 to 52
weeks a year and full-time workers usually work 35 or more hours a week.
Among men who worked in 1998, close to three-quarters—73.9 percent—were
employed year round and full time, compared to 71.7 percent in 1997. Among
women workers, 56.5 percent were employed year round and full time in
1998, compared to 55.8 percent in the previous year.
These data are from the March Supplement to
the Current
Population Survey. Learn more in "Work
Experience of the Population in 1998,"
news release USDL 00-22.
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
In this Spotlight, we take a look at the Hispanic labor force—including labor force participation, employment and unemployment, educational attainment, geographic location, country of birth, earnings, consumer expenditures, time use, workplace injuries, and employment projections.
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