2010 Employment Experience of Youths: Results from a Longitudinal Survey — 2010-01-28

NOTE: This version of the release was re-issued on April 9, 2010 to correct one rounding error in table 1 and two rounding errors in table 2. Additionally, it corrects minor errors in characteristic titles in table 4. The PDF version of the release was not affected. At age 22, women are more likely to be enrolled in college than men and are also more likely to have completed a bachelor's degree, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Among 22-year-olds not enrolled in college, men are more likely than women to be employed in a civilian job or serving in the military. These findings are from the first 11 annual rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), which is a nationally re- presentative survey of about 9,000 young men and women who were born during the years 1980 to 1984.