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Bennefield, Robert L.; McNeil, John M. – Current Population Reports, 1989
This document examines 8-year trends in the labor force status and other characteristics (including age and years of school completed) of persons with a work force disability, using March supplements to the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS). (Disabled persons are considered to be individuals 16 to 64 years old with a disability…
Descriptors: Blacks, Disabilities, Employment Statistics, Females
McNeil, John M.; Lamas, Enrique J. – Current Population Reports, 1987
This report contains 23 tables reporting the differences between men and women in lifetime labor force attachment, occupation, and earnings. The information was collected from a sample of approximately 20,000 households in May, June, July, and August 1984, as part of the Survey of Income Program Participation. The first part of this report…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Choice, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
Young, Anne McDougall – Monthly Labor Review, 1981
The 1970s were marked by an increase in the level of education attainment of the average worker. By 1979 thirty-six per cent of all workers over 18 completed at least one year of college, and the percentage of workers not completing high school declined considerably. While the proportion of men participating in the labor force continued to fall,…
Descriptors: Adults, Demography, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Saluter, Arlene F. – Current Population Reports, 1986
This report presents detailed information on the marital status and living arrangements of the noninstitutional population of the United States by age, sex, race, and Spanish origin. The text of this report compares the mid-decade census estimates based on the March, 1985 "Current Population Survey" with the survey data from 1980, 1970, and 1960.…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Divorce, Family (Sociological Unit), Females
Sekscenski, Edward S. – Monthly Labor Review, 1981
Findings are presented from a May 1969 survey on the growing number of "moonlighters" in the work force: (1) one in twenty workers held more than one job during the survey week; (2) three of every ten multiple jobholders were women, nearly double the proportion of 1969; (3) the number of men with multiple jobs remained about the same; (4) the…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Career Education, Employed Women
Current Population Reports, 1986
This statistical compilation looks at personal income at three levels: household, family, and individual. Within each of these categories, income figures for 1984 and 1983 are related to selected characteristics such as type of residence, geographic region, race, educational level, age, size of household or family, and number of wage earners in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Employment Statistics, Family Income
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. – 1979
Comparative nursery, elementary, and secondary school and college level enrollment statistics for male, female, white, black, and Hispanic students are presented in this paper. Enrollment trend highlights indicate that: (1) the decline in total school enrollment from 1977 to 1978 reflects declines in enrollment at all levels from kindergarten to…
Descriptors: Black Students, Declining Enrollment, Early Childhood Education, Enrollment

Current Population Reports: Population Characteristics, 1979
Living arrangements of college students from 1958 to 1976 are examined through statistics compiled in one of the Census Bureau's "Current Population Reports." It is noted that changes in the characteristics of college students during the 1970's have resulted in changes in the students' living arrangements. Major shifts between 1958 and 1976 in the…
Descriptors: Age, College Choice, College Housing, College Students
Johnson, Beverly L. – 1981
The rising number of multi-earner families has been one of the most important socioeconomic developments of the 1970s; since 1970, the number of such families has increased by more than 3 million. Almost exclusively responsible for the rising number of multi-earner families have been the steep annual increases in the number and proportion of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Employed Parents, Employed Women

Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. Population Div. – 1979
A study was conducted to collect statistical data (age, sex, race, years of school completed, occupation, field of training, and family income levels) on U.S. students who were participating in postsecondary vocational programs in October 1976 or who had participated in such programs during the previous year. Vocational, business, technical, or…
Descriptors: Age, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Stamas, George D. – Monthly Labor Review, 1980
From 1978-79 incidence of long hours among full-time wage and salary workers dropped for the first time since the 1974-75 recession. Of those who worked long hours, about 43% received premium pay (time and one-half the regular wage for hours worked in excess of forty per week). Employers used overtime hours to cope with disequilibrium phenomena…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Blue Collar Occupations, Career Education
Equity Issues, 1996
This publication contains three fact sheets on gender and employment statistics and their implications. The fact sheets are divided into two sections--statistics and implications. The statistics present the current situation of men and women workers as they relate to occupations, education, and earnings. The implications express suggestions for…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women, Employment