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AMERICA'S YOUTH AT 25: SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, NUMBER OF JOBS HELD AND LABOR MARKET ACTIVITY: RESULTS FROM A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY [5 March 2013]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/nlsyth.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsyth.pdf

[full-text, 11 pages]

 

By the October when they were 25 years of age, 30 percent of women and 22 percent

of men had received a bachelor's degree, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

reported today. Additionally, nearly the same percentage of men and women (13 and

14 percent respectively) were enrolled in college at age 25.

 

These findings are from the first 14 annual rounds of the National Longitudinal

Survey of Youth 1997, a nationally representative survey 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 25 to 31 when

interviewed for the 14th time in 2010-11. The survey provides information on

work and nonwork experiences, training, schooling, income, assets, and other

characteristics. The information provided by respondents is representative

of all men and women born in the early 1980s and living in the United States

when the survey began in 1997.

 

This release focuses on the school enrollment and employment experiences of

these individuals from their 18th birthday until they turned 26. Highlights

from the longitudinal survey include:

 

  --During the October when they were 25 years old, 22 percent of men

    had received a bachelor's degree, compared with 30 percent of women.

    (See table 1.)

 

  --Five percent of male high school graduates who had never enrolled

    in college were in the Armed Forces during the October when they were

    age 25, as were 6 percent of the 25-year-old men who had attended

    college but had not earned a bachelor's degree and were no longer

    enrolled. Three percent of 25-year-old men with a bachelor's degree

    were serving in the Armed Forces. About 1 percent of women in each of

    these educational attainment categories were in the Armed Forces at

    age 25. (See table 2.)

 

  --Individuals born from 1980 to 1984 held an average of 6.3 jobs

    from ages 18 to 25. On average, those with more education held more

    jobs than those with less education. (See table 3.)

 

  --Men held an average of 4.0 jobs from ages 18 to 21 and 3.2 jobs

    from ages 22 to 25 while women held an average of 4.2 jobs and 3.2

    jobs at those ages. In general, from ages 22 to 25, individuals with

    more education held more jobs, worked more weeks, and were less likely

    to be out of the labor force. (See table 4.)

 

  --High school graduates who had never enrolled in college were

    employed an average of 69 percent of the weeks from ages 18 to 21,

    and 76 percent of weeks from ages 22 to 25. In comparison, those who

    had dropped out of high school were employed 51 percent of weeks from

    ages 18 to 21, and 58 percent of weeks from ages 22 to 25. (See table 4.)

 

  --By their 26th birthday, 5 percent of youths who had not received

    a high school diploma had never held a job since the time they turned

    18. Of all jobs held by high school dropouts since age 18, nearly two-

    thirds lasted less than a year. (See table 5.)

 

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

 

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