2009 Employment Experience of Youths: Results from a Longitudinal Survey — 2009-01-23

At age 21, women are more likely to be enrolled in college than men, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Among 21-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 10 annual rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, which is a nationally representa- tive survey 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 21 to 27 when interviewed for the tenth time in 2006-07. This release focuses on the school enrollment and employment experiences of these individuals from the October when they were age 20 to the October when they were age 21.