1999 Work Experience of the Population — 2000-11-14

A total of 147.5 million persons worked at some point during 1999, an increase of about 2.7 million persons from the prior year, according to the annual survey of work experience released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The number of individuals who experienced some unemployment during the year continued to decline. About 13 million individuals were in this category in 1999, down about 1 million from 1998. These data are from the March 2000 supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly survey of about 50,000 households that is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Additional information about this annual supplement, including concepts and definitions, is provided in the Technical Note. --The proportion of workers employed full time, year round continued to rise, edging up by 0.3 percentage point to 65.9 percent, the highest in the 50 years since the series began.