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- Employed Civilians & Weely Hours By Selected Characteristics:1970-1987 Age, Sex, & (in thousands) Marital Status 1970 1975 1980 1985 1987
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- Total employed 78,678 85,846 99,303 107,150 112,440
- Age:
- 16-19 years 6,144 7,104 7,710 6,434 6,640
- 20-24 years 9,731 11,885 14,087 13,980 13,524
- 25-34 years 16,318 21,087 27,204 31,208 33,105
- 35-44 years 15,922 15,953 19,523 24,732 27,179
- 45-54 years 16,473 16,190 16,234 16,509 17,487
- 55-64 years 10,974 10,827 11,586 11,474 11,465
- 65 years & over 3,118 2,801 2,960 2,813 3,041
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- Sex:
- Male 48,990 51,857 57,186 59,891 62,107
- Female 29,688 33,989 42,117 47,259 50,334
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- Marital status:
- Married, spouse present 55,554 58,037 62,536 65,584 68,372
- Single (never married) 15,039 18,256 24,082 26,780 28,355
- Widowed, divorced,
- separated 8,087 9,552 12,686 14,786 15,713
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- Class of worker:
- Nonagriculture 75,215 82,438 95,938 103,971 109,232
- Wage & salary worker 69,491 76,249 88,525 95,871 100,771
- Self-employed 5,221 5,705 7,000 7,811 8,201
- Unpaid family workers 502 483 413 289 260
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- Agriculture 3,463 3,408 3,364 3,179 3,208
- Wage & salary worker 1,154 1,301 1,425 1,535 1,632
- Self-employed 1,810 1,722 1,642 1,458 1,423
- Unpaid family workers 499 386 297 185 153
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- Weekly hours:
- Nonagriculture:
- Wage & salary workers 38.3 38.1 38.1 38.7 38.7
- Self-employed 45.0 42.3 41.2 41.1 41.0
- Unpaid family workers 37.9 38.3 34.7 35.1 36.3
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- Agriculture:
- Wage & salary workers 40.0 40.8 41.6 40.8 40.6
- Self-employed 51.0 49.7 49.3 48.2 47.8
- Unpaid family workers 40.0 39.6 38.6 38.5 39.9
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- Source:U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.