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The New Worklife Expectancy Tables rely upon data gathered by the US Census Bureau in its Annual Demographic Survey to derive probabilities of employment for each age, gender, education, and disability status combination.  This survey is the largest annual survey in the world and is relied upon by economists and policy makers across the country to measure earnings and employment for the US economy.

In addition, the tables utilize data from the United States Life Tables to factor the probability that a person will be alive at any given age.  Again, this is the most trusted demographic source of its kind in the United States.

These data are melded into worklife expectancies using the Life, Participation, and Employment (LPE) approach, a model frequently relied upon by forensic economists.

For more information on the underlying statistics and methodology, visit the following links:

• Computation Methodology - Appendix A of the tables, describing the computation process.
• Probability of Employment - Appendix C and Appendix D of the tables, providing the rates of participation and employment derived from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement and from the American Community Survey.
• Probability of Life - Appendix B of the tables, providing the life survivors table used to derive the probability of life.
• Worklife Expectancy Data - Worklife data page in Vocational Economics Technical site, which includes the previous three links.
• Bibliography - Worklife bibliography page in Vocational Economics Technical site.

The Census Bureau has released participation and employment rates based on the 2002 and 2003 Annual Demographic Surveys.  Visit our technical site for more information on these data.  

Last Modified 12/14/2006

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