2004 Employment Experience of Youths: Results from a Longitudinal Survey — 2004-02-18

In 2001, most older teenagers who worked did so during both the school year and the summer months; very few worked solely during the summer. Sixty-five percent of students who were age 17 at the beginning of the 2000-01 school year worked at an employee job at some time during both the school year and the following summer, as did 72 percent of students age 18 and 76 percent of students age 19. These findings are from the first five annual survey 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 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 16 to 22 when inter- viewed for a fifth time in 2001-02.