1997 Work at Home — 1998-03-11

More than 21 million persons did some work at home as part of their primary job in May 1997, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The overall number of persons doing job- related work at home did not grow dramatically between 1991 and 1997, but the number of wage and salary workers doing paid work at home did. These findings are from a special supplement to the May 1997 Current Population Survey (CPS), the monthly survey of about 50,000 households that provides data on the nation�s labor force. The information presented here pertains to persons employed in nonagricultural industries who were at work during the May 1997 survey reference week and indicated that they do some job-related work at home. Similar data were last collected in the CPS in May 1991.