Persons With a Job But Not at Work statistics



REASON FOR NOT WORKING	1970	1975	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990 ¹	1991	1992	1993	1994 ¹	1995	1996	1997 ¹	1998 ¹	1999 ¹

All industries, number	4,645	5,221	5,881	5,790	5,712	5,563	5,575	5,789	5,741	5,910	5,831	6,170	6,160	5,914	6,088	6,041	5,619	5,582	5,768	5,555	5,586	5,407
Percent of employed	5.9	6.1	5.9	5.8	5.7	5.5	5.3	5.4	5.2	5.3	5.1	5.3	5.2	5.0	5.1	5.0	4.6	4.5	4.6	4.3	4.2	4.1

Reason for not working:
Vacation	2,341	2,815	3,320	3,247	3,153	3,096	3,147	3,338	3,234	3,421	3,236	3,437	3,529	3,291	3,409	3,328	2,877	2,982	3,085	2,942	3,033	2,899
Illness	1,324	1,343	1,426	1,413	1,331	1,291	1,322	1,308	1,292	1,320	1,364	1,405	1,341	1,305	1,259	1,295	1,184	1,084	1,090	1,114	1,095	1,096
Bad weather	128	139	155	112	202	124	118	141	128	92	122	133	90	119	128	153	165	122	256	146	130	104
Industrial dispute	156	95	105	64	36	91	40	42	56	34	30	63	24	17	19	24	15	21	11	20	10	7
All other	696	829	876	953	988	962	947	960	1,030	1,043	1,080	1,132	1,177	1,182	1,272	1,241	1,378	1,373	1,325	1,334	1,318	1,300

1 See footnote 2, Table 643.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings, January issues; and unpublished data.

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659. Persons With a Job But Not at Work