Finding Youth Summer Employment Data and other Youth Information
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Annually, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its estimate of employment and unemployment among 16 to 24 year-olds. BLS has also issued its Career Outlook on Summer Employment: A Snapshot of Teen Workers.
Youth Employment and Unemployment Summary
The BLS annual estimate of employment and unemployment among 16 to 24 year-olds offers a summary of the labor force participation of youth. In recent years, BLS has presented three tables on youth employment, which include data on:
- the number employed, the employment-to-population ratio,
- the number unemployed (including the number looking for full-time vs. part-time work),
- the unemployment rate, and
- various labor force participation data.
Summer Youth Data
The summer youth labor force data collected by BLS is helpful for seeing the volume or level of summer youth employment. Since youth employment typically peaks in July, BLS uses that as its reference month for summer employment — comparing it to April, May and June. Youth employment typically begins to rise after April of each year, as school years end. Data are provided by gender, race, and Hispanic origin. BLS also usually supplies comparable data for the previous 3 years in Table 2. Table 3 provides data by:
- major industry
- for government employees at the Federal, state and local levels, and
- for self-employed and unpaid family workers.
For younger ages, BLS offers student data resources, such as career exploration and information on STEM occupations, as well as Occupational Wages in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2014
- Organizational Author(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Posted by: Damon Jones
- Posted in: LMI Central