1997 Employment Situation of Veterans — 1998-06-25

Veterans of the Vietnam era who actually served in Southeast Asia had higher unemployment rates than veterans of that era who served outside the Vietnam war theater or their nonveteran peers, according to the results of a September 1997 survey issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The survey also showed that about 12 percent of Vietnam-era veterans had a service-connected disability and about half (49 percent) had participated in special education and training programs. The survey of veterans was conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Bureau of the Census as a special supplement to the September 1997 Current Population Survey (CPS). It was co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor�s Veterans Employment and Training Service and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. For a description of the survey, including a definition of terms used in this release, see the Technical Note.