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Table 5 Employment status by age group, 2009-2012

From: Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States

 

All age groups

Age 25 and younger

26-35 years old

36-45 years old

46-55 years old

56-65 years old

66-75 years old

Age 76 and older

Employment Categories

N = 84,115

N = 9,223

N = 10,316

N = 14,257

N = 15,464

N = 15,242

N = 11,849

N = 6,764

 Employed full-time (1 = Yes)

0.334

0.249

0.542

0.539

0.517

0.267

0.019

0.004

 

(0.472)

(0.432)

(0.498)

(0.498)

(0.500)

(0.443)

(0.137)

(0.062)

 Self-employed (1 = Yes)

0.058

0.024

0.064

0.089

0.090

0.067

0.021

0.008

 

(0.235)

(0.153)

(0.245)

(0.285)

(0.287)

(0.249)

(0.145)

(0.088)

 Voluntarily employed part-time (1 = Yes)

0.084

0.081

0.076

0.103

0.089

0.107

0.064

0.023

 

(0.277)

(0.272)

(0.266)

(0.303)

(0.284)

(0.309)

(0.247)

(0.149)

 Unemployed (1 = Yes)

0.044

0.105

0.071

0.055

0.048

0.026

0.003

0.001

 

(0.205)

(0.306)

(0.256)

(0.228)

(0.214)

(0.160)

(0.057)

(0.027)

 Involuntarily employed part-time (1 = Yes)

0.040

0.079

0.057

0.052

0.046

0.026

0.009

0.003

 

(0.195)

(0.269)

(0.233)

(0.221)

(0.210)

(0.160)

(0.095)

(0.058)

 Out of the labor force (1 = Yes)

0.440

0.463

0.189

0.162

0.210

0.507

0.882

0.961

 

(0.496)

(0.499)

(0.392)

(0.369)

(0.407)

(0.500)

(0.323)

(0.193)

  1. Source: Gallup World Poll, 2010-2013.
  2. Notes: Standard deviations in parentheses. Employment data are available starting in 2009. For each age group, the table shows the proportion of respondents in each employment category.