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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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WORK ACTIVITY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS:  DATA FROM THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF YOUTH 1997 [27 April 2004]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/nlsyth.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsyth.pdf
[full-text, 11 pages]


  Based upon the recurring interviews of a panel of young people conducted
over the 1997-2003 period, work activity for high school students varied
substantially depending upon the specific grade they were attending.  For
example, 23 percent of high school freshmen worked during the school year,
while nearly 75 percent of high school seniors worked at some time during
the school year.  Many students who eventually graduated from high school
worked long hours during the school year; about a quarter of working fresh-
men averaged 21 or more hours of work per week, as did 56 percent of working
seniors.

   These findings are from the first six annual rounds of the National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, which is sponsored by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.  The survey provides
information on the employment experiences, schooling, family background,
social behavior, and other characteristics of youths.  The survey includes
a nationally representative sample of about 9,000 young men and women who
were born during the years 1980 to 1984.  These respondents were ages 12 to
17 when first interviewed in 1997, and ages 18 to 23 when interviewed for a
sixth time in 2002-03.  For this release, respondents born in 1984 were
excluded from the analysis because many had not yet completed high school.
The remaining respondents, born in the years 1980-83, attended high school
during the years 1994 to 2002.

   This release focuses on the employment experiences of these youths while
in high school.  The release examines only "employee jobs," also known as
wage and salary jobs, in which youths have an ongoing formal relationship
with a particular employer.  "Freelance jobs," such as babysitting or lawn
care, in which youths are more casually involved in the labor market are
not examined.  Highlights from the longitudinal survey include:

     --Forty-one percent of high school freshmen worked during the school
       year or following summer, compared with 87 percent of seniors.

     --Year-round attachment to the formal labor market forms early while
       in high school.  Nearly 18 percent of freshmen worked during both
       the school year and the following summer.  By sophomore year, the
       percent of students who worked during both school and summer doubled
       to 39 percent.  By senior year, two-thirds of students worked during
       both the school year and summer.

     --Working students who eventually graduated often worked 21 or more
       hours per week.  Nearly 24 percent of working freshmen worked 21 or
       more hours per week during the school year, as did 56 percent of
       working seniors.

     --Of the 75 percent of seniors who worked during the school year, over
       three-fourths worked more than 50 percent of school weeks.  About 1
       in 5 employed seniors worked more than 50 percent of school weeks and
       averaged 31 or more hours of work per week


AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

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