2003 Employment Experience of Youths: Results from a Longitudinal Survey — 2003-01-31

Most teenage students who worked during the summer also worked during the school year. Sixty percent of students who were age 16 at the be- ginning of the 1999-2000 school year worked at an employee job both dur- ing the school year and during the following summer, as did 68 percent of students age 17 and 77 percent of students age 18. These findings are from the first four annual survey rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The respondents are 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 15 to 21 when interviewed for a fourth time in 2000-01.