1993 Work Experience of the Population — 1994-11-17

A total of 135.5 million persons held jobs at some time in 1993, and 20.5 million experienced some unemployment during the year, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Work experience data are collected each March in a supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), the survey of households which provides estimates each month of the labor force status of the working-age population. The questions in the March supplement focus on the employment and unemployment experience of persons during the entire previous calendar year. Because the reference period is a full year, the number of persons with some employment and /or unemployment greatly exceeds the average monthly employment and unemployment levels, which are based on a 1-week reference period. For example, while 135.5 million persons worked at some time during 1993, the average monthly employment level was 119.3 million.