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Table 1.  Employment status of men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, race, and Hispanic origin, September
Table 2.  Employment status of men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and age, September 1993, not seasonally
Table 3.  Employed men 18 years and over by occupation, veteran status, and period of service, September 1993, not seasonally
Table 4.  Employment status of male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, presence of service-connected disability, and
Table 5.  Employed men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, presence of service-connected disability, and
Table 6.  Male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, presence of service-connected disability, and use of veterans'
Table 7.  Disabled male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, disability rating, and effect of
Table 8.  Employment status of women 18 years and over by veteran status and period of service, September 1993, not seasonally

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               EMPLOYMENT SITUATION OF VIETNAM-ERA VETERANS
 
     The labor market situation of veterans who served in the Vietnam war
theater was little different from that of other Vietnam-era veterans or
their nonveteran peers, according to the results of a September 1993 survey
issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor.
The survey also showed that about 10 percent of Vietnam-era veterans had a
service-connected disability and that about half of the veterans had
participated in special education and training programs.
 
     This survey of veterans was conducted for the Bureau of Labor
Statistics by the Bureau of the Census as a special supplement to the
September 1993 Current Population Survey (CPS).  It was co-sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Labor's Veterans Employment and Training Service and the
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  For a description of the survey,
including a definition of terms used in this release, see the Technical
Note.  (These data do not reflect changes made to the CPS which were
implemented in January 1994.)
 
Characteristics of Vietnam-era Veterans
 
     About 8 million men served during the Vietnam era (the period from
August 1964 to May 1975).  Of this number, the vast majority--nearly 9 in
10--were between the ages of 35 and 54 in September 1993.  (References to
nonveterans in the following text relate to 35- to 54-year-olds, whereas
data in the tables are for all nonveterans ages 18 and over.)  Nine percent
of Vietnam-era veterans were black and 3 percent were Hispanic.  (See
tables 1 and 2.)  (Information on female veterans and on male veterans who
served either before or after the Vietnam era also was collected in this
special supplement and a summary of results is presented later in this
release.)
 
Vietnam-theater Veterans
 
     About half (3.9 million) of the male veterans from the Vietnam era
served in the Vietnam theater of operations.  In September 1993, their
proportion in the labor force--or labor force participation rate--was 88
percent, about the same as the rate for both non-theater veterans and for
male 35-to 54-year-olds who had never served in the Armed Forces.  The
unemployment rate for Vietnam-theater veterans was relatively low (3.9
percent) and not much different than the rate for non-theater veterans.
(See tables 1 and 2.)
 
Disabled Veterans of the Vietnam era
 
     About 820,000, or 1 in 10, veterans of the Vietnam era reported having
a service-connected disability.  Of this number, about 570,000 (or 70
 
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percent) served in Southeast Asia.  Veterans with a service-connected
disability are assigned a disability rating of 0 to 100 percent, depending
on the severity of the condition.  Three-fifths of the disabled Vietnam-era
veterans had disability ratings of less than 30 percent.  The labor force
participation rate of these veterans was 82 percent, 9 percentage points
lower than that of non-disabled veterans; however both groups experienced
similar unemployment rates (about 4 percent).  Of the veterans reporting
the most serious service-connected disabilities--a disability rating of 60
percent or more--only 1 in 5 was in the labor force.  (See table 4.)
 
     While disabled and nondisabled veterans were found to be working in
similar occupations, there was a marked difference in their place of
employment.  Twenty percent of the disabled veterans were employed by the
federal government, compared with about 8 percent of the nondisabled.
Among nonveterans, the proportion in federal jobs was 2 percent.  (See
table 5.)
 
Effect of disability
 
     Disabled veterans were asked in the survey whether their disability
had ever prevented them from obtaining or keeping a job.  Overall, about 3
in 10 disabled veterans from the Vietnam era reported that this had
occurred.  Among those who were unemployed or not in the labor force in
September 1993, about 4 in 10 perceived their disability to be an obstacle
in the labor market.  (See table 7.)
 
Use of Veterans' Programs by Vietnam-era Veterans
 
     Nearly one-half of the male veterans from the Vietnam era participated
in special education and training programs following their military
discharge.  Disabled veterans were more likely than non-disabled veterans
to have participated in such programs.  By far the most popular program was
the GI Bill, which was used by nearly everyone who had used any of the
programs.  (See table 6.)
 
Female Veterans of the Vietnam era
 
     Out of a total of 1.2 million female veterans, 180,000 served during
the Vietnam era, comprising about 2 percent of all veterans of that period.
Their labor force participation rate (82 percent) was higher than that of
nonveteran women ages 35 to 54 (75 percent).  The unemployment rate for
female veterans of the Vietnam era was 7.0 percent, compared with 4.8
percent for women who had not served in the Armed Forces.  (See table 8.)
 
Veterans of Other Service Periods
 
     The survey found that a total of 24.5 million men had served in the
Armed Forces; of this number, 16.5 million had served either before or
after the Vietnam era.  The majority (10.3 million) were veterans of
earlier wars, primarily World War II and Korea.  The low labor force
participation rate of the veterans of earlier wars--31 percent--mainly
reflects their age; nearly all were over 55 years of age and about 70
percent were at least 65 years old.  Service-connected disabilities also
affected their labor market participation.  Of the 1 million (10 percent)
 
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of these veterans who reported having a service-connected disability, only
20 percent were in the labor force.  (See tables 2 and 4.)
 
     Another 6.2 million male veterans served during peacetime, mainly
during the period between the Korean and Vietnam wars and the period since
Vietnam.  Six percent of them, or about 360,000, reported having a service-
connected disability.  The labor force participation rate for the disabled
was 75 percent, compared with 88 percent for those without disabilities.
(See table 4.)
 
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TECHNICAL NOTE
 
     The estimates in this release were obtained from a supplement to the
September 1993 Current Population Survey (CPS).  This survey included
special questions asked of persons 18 years of age and older regarding
their prior service in the Armed Forces and whether they had a service-
connected disability.  These supplemental questions were sponsored jointly
by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of
Labor's Employment and Training Service and Bureau of Labor Statistics.
 
     The CPS is a monthly sample survey of households that provides
information on the employment status of the population and demographic and
other characteristics of the employed, the unemployed, and persons not in
the labor force.  It is conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the
Bureau of the Census.  The September 1993 survey of nearly 60,000
households was conducted during the week of September 19-25 and refers to
the status of individuals during the preceding week (September 12-18).  For
a further description of the survey and possible sampling and nonsampling
errors which are inherent in any sample survey, see the Explanatory Notes
of the monthly periodical Employment and Earnings.
 
   The definitions underlying the data in this release are as follows:
 
     Veteran status is provided from responses to the question, "Did you
ever serve on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces?"
 
     Period of service is provided from answers to the question asked of
veterans, "When did you serve?"  The following service periods are
identified:
             Vietnam era  --  August 1964-May 1975
             Korean war   --  June 1950-January 1955
             World War II --  September 1940-July 1947
             World War I  --  April 1917-November 1918
             Peacetime    --  All other periods
 
     Vietnam-theater status is determined from responses to the following
question asked of Vietnam-era veterans:  "Did you serve in Vietnam, Laos,
or Cambodia; in the waters in or around these countries; or fly missions
over these areas between August 5, 1964 and May 7, 1975?"
 
     Presence of service-connected disability is provided by answers to the
question, "Has the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or the Department of
Defense determined that you have a service-connected disability; that is, a
health condition or impairment caused or made worse by military service?"
 
     Effect of service-connected disability on veterans' employment
experience is determined by answers to the questions, "Did your service-
connected disability ever prevent you from getting or holding a job in the
past?" and "Does this disability currently keep you from getting or holding
a job?"  The first question was asked of all disabled veterans; the second
was asked only of those who were either unemployed or not in the labor
force.
 
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     Service-connected disability rating is based on answers to the
question, "What is your current service-connected disability rating?"
Answers can range from 0 to 100 percent.  Ratings are determined from a
rating schedule published in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 38,
"Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans Relief," Part 4--"Schedule for Rating
Disabilities."  The rating schedule is "primarily a guide in the
evaluations of disability resulting from all types of diseases and injuries
encountered as a result of or incident to military service.  The percentage
ratings represent as far as can practicably be determined the average
impairment in earning capacity resulting from such diseases and injuries
and their residual conditions in civil occupations."  Part 4 contains a
listing of hundreds of possible disorders and assigns ratings of 0 through
100 percent in steps of 10 percent for each, with instructions for rating
multiple disorders.  Although the schedule's ratings are based primarily on
the average impairment in earnings capacity, "full consideration must be
given to unusual physical or mental effects in individual cases, to
peculiar effects of occupational activities, to defects in physical or
mental endowment preventing the usual amount of success in overcoming the
handicap or disability and to the effect of combination of disability"
(Section 4.15).
 
     Use of veterans' education and training programs is based on answers
to the question, "Have you ever used any of the following programs?"
          Under the GI Bill:
             Education assistance
             On-the-job training
             Apprenticeship
          Montgomery GI Bill or Veterans' Educational
             Assistance Program (VEAP)
          VA Vocational Rehabilitation
          Under U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored programs:
             Transition Assistance Program (TAP)
             Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)
             Comprehensive Employment and Training
             Act (CETA)
             Job Service/Unemployment Insurance/Veterans'
             Representatives
 
     Employed persons are (a) all persons who, during the survey reference
week, did any work at all as paid employees, in their own business,
profession, or on their own farm, or who worked 15 hours or more as unpaid
workers in a family-operated enterprise; and (b) all those who were not
working but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily
absent because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management
disputes, or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time
off or were seeking other jobs.
 
     Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the
survey reference week, were available for work except for temporary
illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during
the prior 4 weeks.  Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from
which they had been laid off need not be looking for work to be classified
as unemployed.
 
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     The civilian labor force comprises all persons classified as employed
or unemployed.
 
     The unemployment rate represents the number unemployed as a percent of
the civilian labor force.
 
     Not in the labor force includes all persons who are not classified as
employed or unemployed.
 
     Occupation and class of worker for the employed relate to the job held
in the survey reference week.  Persons with two or more jobs are classified
in the job at which they worked the greatest number of hours.  In terms of
class-of-worker categories, wage and salary workers are those who receive
wages, salary, commission, tips, or pay in kind from a private employer or
from a government unit; self-employed persons are those who work for profit
or fees in their own business, profession, or trade, or operate a farm; and
unpaid family workers are persons working without pay for 15 hours a week
or more in an enterprise operated by a member of their family.
 
 
 
 
Table 1.  Employment status of men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, race, and Hispanic origin, September
 
1993, not seasonally adjusted
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                               |            |                                                          |
                                               |            |                   Civilian labor force                   |
                                               |            |                                                          |
                                                             __________________________________________________________
                                               |            |         |            |            |                      |
                                               |  Civilian  |         |            |            |      Unemployed      |   Not in
   Veteran status, period of service, race,    | noninsti-  |         |  Percent   |            |                      |   labor
                                                                                                 ______________________
              and Hispanic origin              |  tutional  |         |     of     |            |         |            |   force
                                               | population |  Total  |    popu-   |  Employed  |         |  Percent   |
                                               |            |         |   lation   |            | Number  |     of     |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |   labor    |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |   force    |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                     TOTAL                     |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 18 years and over.......................|    89,391  |  68,174 |    76.3    |    64,089  |   4,085 |     6.0    |    21,217
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Veterans1/...................................|    24,493  |  15,676 |    64.0    |    14,905  |     770 |     4.9    |     8,817
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
    War veterans...............................|    18,256  |  10,234 |    56.1    |     9,750  |     484 |     4.7    |     8,022
      Vietnam era..............................|     7,950  |   7,057 |    88.8    |     6,745  |     313 |     4.4    |       893
        Vietnam theater........................|     3,905  |   3,423 |    87.7    |     3,291  |     132 |     3.9    |       482
        Outside the Vietnam theater............|     4,045  |   3,635 |    89.8    |     3,454  |     181 |     5.0    |       411
      Other war veterans.......................|    10,306  |   3,177 |    30.8    |     3,005  |     172 |     5.4    |     7,129
    Peacetime veterans.........................|     6,237  |   5,441 |    87.2    |     5,155  |     286 |     5.3    |       796
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Nonveterans..................................|    64,898  |  52,499 |    80.9    |    49,184  |   3,315 |     6.3    |    12,399
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                     White                     |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 18 years and over.......................|    76,477  |  58,864 |    77.0    |    55,800  |   3,064 |     5.2    |    17,613
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Veterans1/...................................|    21,938  |  13,988 |    63.8    |    13,350  |     639 |     4.6    |     7,950
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
    War veterans...............................|    16,608  |   9,327 |    56.2    |     8,933  |     394 |     4.2    |     7,280
      Vietnam era..............................|     7,132  |   6,391 |    89.6    |     6,141  |     250 |     3.9    |       741
        Vietnam theater........................|     3,435  |   3,051 |    88.8    |     2,948  |     103 |     3.4    |       384
        Outside the Vietnam theater............|     3,698  |   3,340 |    90.3    |     3,193  |     147 |     4.4    |       358
      Other war veterans.......................|     9,475  |   2,936 |    31.0    |     2,792  |     145 |     4.9    |     6,539
    Peacetime veterans.........................|     5,330  |   4,661 |    87.4    |     4,416  |     244 |     5.2    |       669
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Nonveterans..................................|    54,539  |  44,876 |    82.3    |    42,451  |   2,425 |     5.4    |     9,663
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                     Black                     |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 18 years and over.......................|     9,560  |   6,770 |    70.8    |     5,939  |     831 |    12.3    |     2,790
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Veterans1/...................................|     2,159  |   1,415 |    65.5    |     1,298  |     117 |     8.3    |       744
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
    War veterans...............................|     1,367  |     734 |    53.6    |       656  |      78 |    10.6    |       634
      Vietnam era..............................|       678  |     549 |    80.9    |       491  |      59 |    10.7    |       129
        Vietnam theater........................|       397  |     309 |    77.9    |       282  |      27 |     8.7    |        88
        Outside the Vietnam theater............|       282  |     240 |    85.2    |       208  |      32 |    13.2    |        42
      Other war veterans.......................|       689  |     184 |    26.8    |       165  |      19 |    10.5    |       505
    Peacetime veterans.........................|       792  |     682 |    86.1    |       643  |      39 |     5.7    |       110
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Nonveterans..................................|     7,401  |   5,354 |    72.4    |     4,641  |     714 |    13.3    |     2,046
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
               Hispanic origin                 |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 18 years and over.......................|     7,563  |   6,288 |    83.1    |     5,762  |     526 |     8.4    |     1,275
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Veterans1/...................................|       785  |     559 |    71.3    |       527  |      32 |     5.7    |       226
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
    War veterans...............................|       509  |     307 |    60.3    |       297  |      10 |     3.3    |       202
      Vietnam era..............................|       254  |     229 |    90.4    |       224  |       5 |     2.1    |        24
        Vietnam theater........................|       137  |     118 |    85.9    |       113  |       5 |     4.1    |        19
        Outside the Vietnam theater............|       116  |     111 |    95.7    |       111  |    -    |      -     |         5
      Other war veterans.......................|       255  |      78 |    30.4    |        72  |       5 |     6.7    |       178
    Peacetime veterans.........................|       276  |     253 |    91.5    |       231  |      22 |     8.6    |        23
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Nonveterans..................................|     6,778  |   5,729 |    84.5    |     5,235  |     494 |     8.6    |     1,049
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   1/  Because of the aging of the population, there are no
longer any Vietnam-era veterans under 30 years of age or any
other war veterans under 45 years of age.
   NOTE:  Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces
during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II,
and all other service periods. Nonveterans are men who have
never served in the Armed Forces. Information on specific
periods of service appears in the Explanatory Note of this
release.  Detail for the above race and Hispanic-origin groups
will not sum to totals because data for the "other races"
group are not presented and Hispanics are included in both the
white and black population groups.
 
 
 
Table 2.  Employment status of men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and age, September 1993, not seasonally
 
adjusted
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                               |            |                                                          |
                                               |            |                   Civilian labor force                   |
                                               |            |                                                          |
                                                             __________________________________________________________
                                               |            |         |            |            |                      |
                                               |  Civilian  |         |            |            |      Unemployed      |   Not in
  Veteran status, period of service, and age   | noninsti-  |         |  Percent   |            |                      |   labor
                                                                                                 ______________________
                                               |  tutional  |         |     of     |            |         |            |   force
                                               | population |  Total  |    popu-   |  Employed  |         |  Percent   |
                                               |            |         |   lation   |            | Number  |     of     |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |   labor    |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |   force    |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                   VETERANS                    |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 18 years and over.......................|    24,493  |  15,676 |    64.0    |    14,905  |     770 |     4.9    |     8,817
  18 to 24 years...............................|       391  |     368 |    94.0    |       327  |      41 |    11.0    |        23
  25 to 34 years...............................|     1,982  |   1,868 |    94.2    |     1,760  |     108 |     5.8    |       114
  35 to 44 years...............................|     3,973  |   3,684 |    92.7    |     3,478  |     207 |     5.6    |       289
  45 to 54 years...............................|     5,455  |   5,039 |    92.4    |     4,855  |     184 |     3.7    |       416
  55 to 64 years...............................|     5,221  |   3,367 |    64.5    |     3,180  |     187 |     5.6    |     1,854
  65 years and over............................|     7,471  |   1,350 |    18.1    |     1,306  |      44 |     3.2    |     6,121
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                 War veterans                  |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 30 years and over1/.....................|    18,256  |  10,234 |    56.1    |     9,750  |     484 |     4.7    |     8,022
  30 to 34 years...............................|        34  |      34 |     (2)    |        34  |    -    |     (2)    |      -
  35 to 44 years...............................|     2,879  |   2,675 |    92.9    |     2,522  |     153 |     5.7    |       204
  45 to 54 years...............................|     4,222  |   3,918 |    92.8    |     3,776  |     142 |     3.6    |       304
  55 to 64 years...............................|     3,826  |   2,292 |    59.9    |     2,145  |     147 |     6.4    |     1,534
  65 years and over............................|     7,295  |   1,315 |    18.0    |     1,273  |      42 |     3.2    |     5,980
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                  Vietnam era                  |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 30 years and over1/.....................|     7,950  |   7,057 |    88.8    |     6,745  |     313 |     4.4    |       893
  30 to 34 years...............................|        34  |      34 |     (2)    |        34  |    -    |     (2)    |      -
  35 to 44 years...............................|     2,879  |   2,675 |    92.9    |     2,522  |     153 |     5.7    |       204
  45 to 54 years...............................|     4,186  |   3,892 |    93.0    |     3,750  |     142 |     3.6    |       294
  55 to 64 years...............................|       648  |     416 |    64.2    |       399  |      17 |     4.1    |       232
  65 years and over............................|       203  |      40 |    19.6    |        40  |    -    |     (2)    |       163
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                Vietnam theater                |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 30 years and over1/.....................|     3,905  |   3,423 |    87.7    |     3,291  |     132 |     3.9    |       482
  30 to 34 years...............................|        15  |      15 |     (2)    |        15  |    -    |     (2)    |      -
  35 to 44 years...............................|     1,307  |   1,203 |    92.1    |     1,137  |      66 |     5.5    |       103
  45 to 54 years...............................|     2,101  |   1,935 |    92.1    |     1,874  |      61 |     3.2    |       166
  55 to 64 years...............................|       371  |     248 |    66.7    |       243  |       5 |     1.9    |       123
  65 years and over............................|       110  |      21 |    19.3    |        21  |    -    |     (2)    |        89
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
          Outside the vietnam theater          |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 30 years and over1/.....................|     4,045  |   3,635 |    89.8    |     3,454  |     181 |     5.0    |       411
  30 to 34 years...............................|        19  |      19 |     (2)    |        19  |    -    |     (2)    |      -
  35 to 44 years...............................|     1,572  |   1,472 |    93.6    |     1,385  |      87 |     5.9    |       100
  45 to 54 years...............................|     2,085  |   1,957 |    93.9    |     1,876  |      81 |     4.1    |       128
  55 to 64 years...............................|       277  |     168 |    60.8    |       156  |      13 |     7.5    |       108
  65 years and over............................|        93  |      19 |    20.1    |        19  |    -    |     (2)    |        74
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
              Other war veterans               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 45 years and over1/.....................|    10,306  |   3,177 |    30.8    |     3,005  |     172 |     5.4    |     7,129
  45 to 54 years...............................|        36  |      26 |     (2)    |        26  |    -    |      -     |        10
  55 to 64 years...............................|     3,178  |   1,876 |    59.0    |     1,746  |     130 |     6.9    |     1,302
  65 years and over............................|     7,092  |   1,276 |    18.0    |     1,233  |      42 |     3.3    |     5,817
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
              Peacetime veterans               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 18 years and over.......................|     6,237  |   5,441 |    87.2    |     5,155  |     286 |     5.3    |       796
  18 to 24 years...............................|       391  |     368 |    94.0    |       327  |      41 |    11.0    |        23
  25 to 34 years...............................|     1,948  |   1,834 |    94.1    |     1,726  |     108 |     5.9    |       114
  35 to 44 years...............................|     1,094  |   1,009 |    92.2    |       956  |      53 |     5.3    |        85
  45 to 54 years...............................|     1,233  |   1,121 |    90.9    |     1,079  |      42 |     3.8    |       112
  55 to 64 years...............................|     1,395  |   1,075 |    77.1    |     1,035  |      40 |     3.7    |       320
  65 years and over............................|       175  |      34 |    19.5    |        33  |       1 |     (2)    |       141
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                  NONVETERANS                  |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 18 years and over.......................|    64,898  |  52,499 |    80.9    |    49,184  |   3,315 |     6.3    |    12,399
  18 to 24 years...............................|    11,494  |   8,748 |    76.1    |     7,690  |   1,058 |    12.1    |     2,745
  25 to 34 years...............................|    18,324  |  17,072 |    93.2    |    16,075  |     997 |     5.8    |     1,252
  35 to 44 years...............................|    15,969  |  14,939 |    93.5    |    14,268  |     671 |     4.5    |     1,030
  45 to 54 years...............................|     8,712  |   7,792 |    89.4    |     7,387  |     405 |     5.2    |       919
  55 to 64 years...............................|     4,760  |   3,186 |    66.9    |     3,032  |     154 |     4.8    |     1,574
  65 years and over............................|     5,638  |     761 |    13.5    |       731  |      30 |     3.9    |     4,878
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   1/  Because of the aging of the population, there are no
longer any Vietnam-era veterans under 30 years of age or any
other war veterans under 45 years of age.
   2/  Data not shown where base is less than 75,000.
   NOTE:  Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces
during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II,
and all other service periods.  Nonveterans are men who have
never served in the Armed Forces.  Information on specific
periods of service appears in the Explanatory Note of this
release.
 
 
 
Table 3.  Employed men 18 years and over by occupation, veteran status, and period of service, September 1993, not seasonally
 
  adjusted
 
  (Percent distribution)
 
  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                             |                                                           |
                                                             |                        Veterans1/                         |
                                                             |                                                           |
                                                              ___________________________________________________________
                                                             |       |                                          |        |
                                                             |       |               War veterans               |        |
                                                             |       |                                          |        |
                                                                      __________________________________________
                                                             |       |       |                         |        |        |Nonvet-
                          Occupation                         |       |       |       Vietnam era       |        | Peace- | erans
                                                             | Total |       |                         |        |  time  |
                                                                              _________________________
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        | Other  |veterans|
                                                             |       | Total |       |        |Outside |  war   |        |
                                                             |       |       | Total |Vietnam |  the   |veterans|        |
                                                             |       |       |       |theater |Vietnam |        |        |
                                                             |       |       |       |        |theater |        |        |
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
  Total, 18 years and over (thousands).......................| 14,905|  9,750|  6,745|   3,291|   3,454|   3,005|   5,155|  49,184
      Percent................................................|  100.0|  100.0|  100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0|   100.0
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
    Managerial and professional speciality...................|   27.4|   29.9|   29.0|    26.6|    31.3|    31.9|    22.8|    25.9
      Executive, adminstrative, and managerial...............|   16.1|   17.3|   16.8|    15.9|    17.7|    18.3|    13.8|    13.4
      Professional speciality................................|   11.4|   12.6|   12.2|    10.6|    13.6|    13.6|     9.0|    12.5
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
    Technical, sales, and administrative support.............|   21.4|   21.5|   21.0|    20.6|    21.3|    22.6|    21.3|    19.5
      Technicians and related support........................|    3.5|    2.9|    3.3|     3.0|     3.6|     1.9|     4.6|     2.9
      Sales occupations......................................|   10.8|   11.4|    9.7|     8.9|    10.4|    15.1|     9.9|    11.1
      Administrative support, including clerical.............|    7.1|    7.2|    8.0|     8.7|     7.3|     5.6|     6.8|     5.5
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
    Service occupations......................................|    9.2|    8.5|    8.3|     8.9|     7.7|     9.2|    10.5|     9.8
      Protective service.....................................|    4.4|    4.4|    4.6|     5.2|     4.1|     3.8|     4.5|     2.2
      Other service occupations..............................|    4.8|    4.2|    3.6|     3.7|     3.6|     5.3|     6.0|     7.6
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
    Precision production, craft, and repair..................|   20.1|   19.4|   22.3|    22.5|    22.2|    12.8|    21.3|    19.4
      Mechanics and repairers................................|    7.5|    7.1|    8.4|     7.9|     8.9|     4.2|     8.3|     6.6
      Construction trades....................................|    7.5|    7.3|    8.1|     8.4|     7.8|     5.5|     7.8|     8.4
      Other precision production, craft, and repair..........|    5.1|    5.0|    5.8|     6.2|     5.5|     3.1|     5.2|     4.5
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
    Operators, fabricators, and laborers.....................|   17.8|   15.9|   16.5|    18.6|    14.6|    14.4|    21.4|    20.5
      Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..........|    6.2|    5.6|    6.2|     6.6|     5.9|     4.3|     7.4|     7.4
      Transportation and material moving occupations.........|    8.0|    7.5|    7.7|     8.9|     6.4|     7.2|     8.8|     6.9
      Handlers, epuipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers....|    3.6|    2.7|    2.7|     3.1|     2.2|     2.9|     5.2|     6.2
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
    Farming, forestry, and fishing...........................|    4.1|    4.8|    3.0|     2.9|     3.0|     9.1|     2.6|     4.8
                                                             |       |       |       |        |        |        |        |
  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
     1/  Because of the aging of the population, there are no
  longer any Vietnam-era veterans under 30 years of age or any
  other war veterans under 45 years of age.
     NOTE:  Male veterans are men who served in the Armed
  Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I
  and II, and all other service periods.  Nonveterans are men
  who have never served in the Armed Forces.  Information on
  specific periods of service appears in the Explanatory Note
  of this release.
 
 
 
Table 4.  Employment status of male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, presence of service-connected disability, and
 
reported disability rating, September 1993, not seasonally adjusted
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                               |            |                                                          |
                                               |            |                   Civilian labor force                   |
                                               |            |                                                          |
                                                             __________________________________________________________
                                               |            |         |            |            |                      |
                                               |  Civilian  |         |            |            |      Unemployed      |   Not in
Period of service, presence of disability, and | noninsti-  |         |  Percent   |            |                      |   labor
                                                                                                 ______________________
          reported disability rating           |  tutional  |         |     of     |            |         |            |   force
                                               | population |  Total  |    popu-   |  Employed  |         |  Percent   |
                                               |            |         |   lation   |            | Number  |     of     |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |   labor    |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |   force    |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                  ALL VETERANS                 |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
With service-connceted disability..............|     2,180  |   1,033 |    47.4    |       981  |      52 |     5.1    |     1,147
  Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|     1,295  |     734 |    56.6    |       692  |      42 |     5.7    |       562
  30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|       486  |     220 |    45.4    |       214  |       7 |     3.0    |       265
  60 percent or higher disability rating.......|       253  |      30 |    12.0    |        29  |       1 |     (1)    |       222
  Disability rating not reported...............|       146  |      49 |    33.6    |        47  |       2 |     (1)    |        97
Without service-connected disability...........|    20,640  |  13,547 |    65.6    |    12,881  |     666 |     4.9    |     7,093
Presence of dosability not reported............|     1,673  |   1,096 |    65.5    |     1,044  |      52 |     4.7    |       577
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                 War veterans                  |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
With service-connceted disability..............|     1,824  |     768 |    42.1    |       737  |      31 |     4.0    |     1,056
  Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|     1,053  |     541 |    51.3    |       518  |      23 |     4.2    |       512
  30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|       421  |     167 |    39.6    |       163  |       4 |     2.5    |       254
  60 percent or higher disability rating.......|       222  |      28 |    12.6    |        27  |       1 |     (1)    |       194
  Disability rating not reported...............|       127  |      32 |    25.4    |        30  |       2 |     (1)    |        95
Without service-connected disability...........|    15,232  |   8,783 |    57.7    |     8,355  |     427 |     4.9    |     6,449
Presence of dosability not reported............|     1,201  |     684 |    57.0    |       658  |      26 |     3.8    |       517
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                  Vietnam era                  |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
With service-connceted disability..............|       819  |     569 |    69.5    |       549  |      20 |     3.5    |       250
  Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|       489  |     403 |    82.4    |       388  |      16 |     3.9    |        86
  30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|       203  |     127 |    62.4    |       122  |       4 |     3.3    |        76
  60 percent or higher disability rating.......|        89  |      19 |    20.8    |        19  |    -    |     (1)    |        71
  Disability rating not reported...............|        38  |      21 |     (1)    |        21  |    -    |     (1)    |        17
Without service-connected disability...........|     6,533  |   5,979 |    91.5    |     5,710  |     269 |     4.5    |       555
Presence of dosability not reported............|       598  |     509 |    85.2    |       486  |      24 |     4.7    |        88
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                Vietnam theater                |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
With service-connceted disability..............|       569  |     378 |    66.5    |       372  |       6 |     1.6    |       191
  Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|       312  |     250 |    80.1    |       246  |       4 |     1.6    |        62
  30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|       151  |      95 |    62.7    |        93  |       2 |     2.2    |        56
  60 percent or higher disability rating.......|        73  |      18 |     (1)    |        18  |    -    |     (1)    |        56
  Disability rating not reported...............|        33  |      16 |     (1)    |        16  |    -    |     (1)    |        17
Without service-connected disability...........|     3,061  |   2,809 |    91.8    |     2,695  |     115 |     4.1    |       251
Presence of dosability not reported............|       275  |     235 |    85.5    |       224  |      11 |     4.8    |        40
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
          Outside the Vietnam theater          |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
With service-connceted disability..............|       250  |     191 |    76.4    |       177  |      14 |     7.3    |        59
  Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|       177  |     153 |    86.5    |       142  |      12 |     7.7    |        24
  30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|        52  |      32 |     (1)    |        30  |       2 |     (1)    |        20
  60 percent or higher disability rating.......|        16  |       1 |     (1)    |         1  |    -    |     (1)    |        15
  Disability rating not reported...............|         5  |       5 |     (1)    |         5  |    -    |     (1)    |      -
Without service-connected disability...........|     3,473  |   3,169 |    91.3    |     3,015  |     154 |     4.9    |       303
Presence of dosability not reported............|       323  |     274 |    85.0    |       262  |      13 |     4.6    |        48
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
            Other war veterans                 |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
With service-connceted disability..............|     1,005  |     199 |    19.8    |       188  |      11 |     5.4    |       806
  Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|       564  |     137 |    24.3    |       130  |       7 |     5.1    |       427
  30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|       218  |      40 |    18.4    |        40  |    -    |     (1)    |       178
  60 percent or higher disability rating.......|       132  |       9 |     7.1    |         8  |       1 |     (1)    |       123
  Disability rating not reported...............|        90  |      12 |    13.0    |         9  |       2 |     (1)    |        78
Without service-connected disability...........|     8,698  |   2,804 |    32.2    |     2,645  |     159 |     5.7    |     5,895
Presence of dosability not reported............|       603  |     174 |    28.9    |       172  |       2 |     1.4    |       428
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
             Peacetime veterans                |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
With service-connceted disability..............|       357  |     266 |    74.5    |       244  |      22 |     8.1    |        91
  Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|       242  |     193 |    79.7    |       174  |      19 |     9.9    |        49
  30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|        65  |      54 |     (1)    |        51  |       2 |     (1)    |        11
  60 percent or higher disability rating.......|        31  |       2 |     (1)    |         2  |    -    |     (1)    |        28
  Disability rating not reported...............|        19  |      17 |     (1)    |        17  |    -    |     (1)    |         2
Without service-connected disability...........|     5,408  |   4,764 |    88.1    |     4,525  |     239 |     5.0    |       644
Presence of dosability not reported............|       472  |     412 |    87.2    |       386  |      26 |     6.3    |        61
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   1/  Data not shown where base is less than 75,000.
   NOTE:  Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces
during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II,
and all other service periods. Because of the aging of the
population, there are no longer any Vietnam-era veterans under
30 years of age or any other war veterans under 45 years of
age.  A service-connected disability is a health condition or
impairment caused or made worse by military service.  The
associated disability rating, which can range from 0 to 100
percent, is determined from a rating schedule published in the
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, "Title 38." Additional
information on periods of service and service-connected
disability ratings appears in the Explanatory Note of this
release.
 
 
 
Table 5.  Employed men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, presence of service-connected disability, and
 
   class of worker, September 1993, not reasonally adjusted
 
   _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                  |            |
                                                  |            |
                                                  |            |            Percent distribution by class of worker
                                                  |            |
                                                  |            |
                                                                ________________________________________________________________
                                                  |            |         |                                       |
                                                  |            |         |    Nonagricultural wage and salary    |
   Veteran status, period of service, and presence|   Total    |         |                workers                | Agricultural
                    of disability                 |employed1/  |         |                                       |   wage and
                                                  |(thousands) |         |         |                             |   salary,
                                                  |            |  Total  |         |         Government          |self-employed,
                                                  |            |         |         |                             |  and unpaid
                                                                                    _____________________________
                                                  |            |         | Private |         |         |         |
                                                  |            |         | sector  |         |         |  State  |   familify
                                                  |            |         |         |  Total  | Federal |   and   |   workers
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |  local  |
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
   _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
   All veterans...................................|    14,905  |  100.0  |   67.5  |   18.2  |    6.5  |   11.6  |     14.3
     With service-connceted disability............|       981  |  100.0  |   57.6  |   29.0  |   16.1  |   12.9  |     13.4
     Without service connected disability.........|    12,881  |  100.0  |   68.1  |   17.5  |    6.1  |   11.5  |     14.3
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
     War veterans.................................|     9,750  |  100.0  |   64.9  |   18.8  |    6.9  |   11.9  |     16.3
       With service-connceted disability..........|       737  |  100.0  |   55.0  |   29.4  |   15.9  |   13.5  |     15.5
       Without service connected disability.......|     8,355  |  100.0  |   65.4  |   18.2  |    6.4  |   11.9  |     16.4
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
       Vietnam era................................|     6,745  |  100.0  |   67.6  |   20.9  |    8.3  |   12.6  |     11.5
         With service-connceted disability........|       549  |  100.0  |   54.8  |   35.9  |   19.7  |   16.2  |      9.3
         Without service connected disability.....|     5,710  |  100.0  |   68.3  |   20.0  |    7.7  |   12.3  |     11.8
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
         Vietnam theater..........................|     3,291  |  100.0  |   66.7  |   21.8  |    9.4  |   12.3  |     11.6
           With service-connceted disability......|       372  |  100.0  |   54.5  |   35.4  |   20.2  |   15.2  |     10.1
           Without service connected disability...|     2,695  |  100.0  |   68.0  |   20.0  |    8.4  |   11.6  |     12.0
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
         Outside the Vietnam theater..............|     3,454  |  100.0  |   68.5  |   20.1  |    7.3  |   12.8  |     11.4
           With service-connceted disability......|       177  |  100.0  |   55.4  |   37.1  |   18.6  |   18.5  |      7.5
           Without service connected disability...|     3,015  |  100.0  |   68.5  |   19.9  |    7.1  |   12.9  |     11.6
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
       Other war veterans.........................|     3,005  |  100.0  |   58.9  |   14.0  |    3.6  |   10.4  |     27.1
         With service-connceted disability........|       188  |  100.0  |   55.8  |   10.3  |    4.8  |    5.5  |     33.9
         Without service connected disability.....|     2,645  |  100.0  |   59.1  |   14.5  |    3.6  |   10.9  |     26.4
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
     Peacetime veterans...........................|     5,155  |  100.0  |   72.5  |   17.0  |    5.9  |   11.1  |     10.5
       With service-connceted disability..........|       244  |  100.0  |   65.5  |   27.7  |   16.7  |   11.0  |      6.8
       Without service connected disability.......|     4,525  |  100.0  |   73.3  |   16.2  |    5.5  |   10.8  |     10.5
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
   Nonveterans....................................|    49,184  |  100.0  |   75.6  |   11.4  |    2.0  |    9.4  |     13.0
                                                  |            |         |         |         |         |         |
   _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
      1/  Includes a small number of veterans who did not
   report presence of disability.
      NOTE:  Male veterans are men who served in the Armed
   Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I
   and II, and all other service periods. Nonveterans are men
   who have never served in the Armed Forces.  Because of the
   aging of the population, there are no longer any Vietnam-
   era veterans under 30 years of age or any other war
   veterans under 45 years of age.  A service-connected
   disability is a health condition or impairment caused or
   made worse by military service.  The associated disability
   rating, which can range from 0 to 100 percent, is
   determined from a rating schedule published in the U.S.
   Code of Federal Regulations, "Title 38." Additional
   information on periods of service and service-connected
   disability ratings appears in the Explanatory Note of this
   release.
 
 
 
Table 6.  Male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, presence of service-connected disability, and use of veterans'
 
education and training programs, September 1993, not seasonally adjusted
 
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                            |           |                          |                         |
                                            |           |   Percent distribution   |Percent reporting use of |     U.S. Dept of
                                            |           |    by reported use of    |  specific programs2/    |   Labor sponsored
                                            |           |         programs         |                         |       programs
                                            |           |                          |                         |
                                                         __________________________ _________________________ ____________________
                                            |           |        |        |        |                         |          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |                         |          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |   U.S. Department of    |          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |    Veterans Affairs     |          |
       Period of service and presence       | Total1/   |        |        |        |                         |          |
               of disability                |(thousands)|        |        |Used at |                         |  State   |
                                                                                    _________________________
                                            |           |        |Used no | least  |       |        |        |   job    |   Other
                                            |           | Total  |program |  one   |       | Veter- |        | service  |programs4/
                                            |           |        |        |program |       |  ans   | Voca-  |offices3/ |
                                            |           |        |        |        |  GI   | Educa  | tional |          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |Bill5/ | tional |rehabil-|          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |Assist- |itation |          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |  ance  |        |          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |Programs|        |          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
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                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
All veterans................................|   24,493  | 100.0  |  62.3  |  37.7  |   34.3|   2.3  |   0.9  |    1.7   |     1.4
  With service-connceted disability.........|    2,180  | 100.0  |  50.7  |  49.3  |   44.1|   3.0  |   5.4  |    2.6   |     2.2
  Without service connected disability......|   20,640  | 100.0  |  60.5  |  39.5  |   36.0|   2.4  |    .6  |    1.8   |     1.4
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
  War veterans..............................|   18,256  | 100.0  |  58.5  |  41.5  |   39.1|   1.6  |   1.0  |    1.5   |     1.2
    With service-connceted disability.......|    1,824  | 100.0  |  49.7  |  50.3  |   46.6|   2.4  |   4.4  |    2.3   |     1.4
    Without service connected disability....|   15,232  | 100.0  |  56.3  |  43.7  |   41.3|   1.7  |    .6  |    1.5   |     1.2
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
    Vietnam era.............................|    7,950  | 100.0  |  53.5  |  46.5  |   43.4|   2.3  |   1.1  |    2.4   |     2.2
      With service-connceted disability.....|      819  | 100.0  |  41.2  |  58.8  |   53.5|   3.2  |   4.7  |    4.4   |     2.8
      Without service connected disability..|    6,533  | 100.0  |  50.8  |  49.2  |   46.1|   2.4  |    .7  |    2.4   |     2.3
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
      Vietnam theater.......................|    3,905  | 100.0  |  50.6  |  49.4  |   46.4|   2.5  |   1.4  |    2.6   |     2.0
        With service-connceted disability...|      569  | 100.0  |  41.7  |  58.3  |   53.3|   3.6  |   5.4  |    4.1   |     2.6
        Without service connected disability|    3,061  | 100.0  |  47.9  |  52.1  |   49.3|   2.5  |    .8  |    2.5   |     2.1
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
      Outside the Vietnam theater...........|    4,045  | 100.0  |  56.4  |  43.6  |   40.5|   2.1  |    .7  |    2.3   |     2.4
        With service-connceted disability...|      250  | 100.0  |  40.1  |  59.9  |   54.0|   2.4  |   3.2  |    5.0   |     3.3
        Without service connected disability|    3,473  | 100.0  |  53.5  |  46.5  |   43.3|   2.2  |    .6  |    2.3   |     2.5
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
    Other war veterans......................|   10,306  | 100.0  |  62.3  |  37.7  |   35.8|   1.1  |    .9  |     .7   |      .4
      With service-connceted disability.....|    1,005  | 100.0  |  56.6  |  43.4  |   40.9|   1.8  |   4.0  |     .5   |      .3
      Without service connected disability..|    8,698  | 100.0  |  60.4  |  39.6  |   37.7|   1.2  |    .6  |     .8   |      .4
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
  Peacetime veterans........................|    6,237  | 100.0  |  73.5  |  26.5  |   20.2|   4.2  |    .9  |    2.4   |     2.2
    With service-connceted disability.......|      357  | 100.0  |  55.7  |  44.3  |   31.4|   6.0  |  10.8  |    4.0   |     6.0
    Without service connected disability....|    5,408  | 100.0  |  72.4  |  27.6  |   21.2|   4.5  |    .4  |    2.6   |     2.1
                                            |           |        |        |        |       |        |        |          |
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   1/  Includes a small number of veterans who did not report
presence of disability and/or information on use of programs.
   2/  The sum of the percentages using specific programs will
not equal the percentages for "use any program" because some
veterans used more than one program.
   3/  Provides such services as job counseling, testing, and
employment referral and placement.
   4/  Includes the Transition Assistance Program (TAP), the
Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), and the Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act (CETA).
   5/  Includes on-the-job training, not shown separately.
   NOTE:  Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces
during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II,
and all other service periods. Because of the aging of the
population, there are no longer any Vietnam-era veterans under
30 years of age or any other war veterans under 45 years of
age.  A service-connected disability is a health condition or
impairment caused or made worse by military service.  The
associated disability rating, which can range from 0 to 100
percent, is determined from a rating schedule published in the
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, "Title 38." Additional
information on periods of service and service-connected
disability ratings appears in the Explanatory Note of this
release.
 
 
 
Table 7.  Disabled male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, disability rating, and effect of
 
            disability on jobholding, September 1993, not seasonally adjusted
 
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                                                           |
                                                           |                     Disabled veterans
                                                           |
                                                            ___________________________________________________________
                                                           |              |              |
                                                           |              |              |  Unemployed or not in the
                                                           |              |              |         labor force
                Period of service and disability rating    |              |Percent whose |
                                                                                          _____________________________
                                                           |    Total     |  disability  |              |
                                                           | (thousands)  |   affected   |              |Percent whose
                                                           |              |  past job-   |    Total     |  disability
                                                           |              |   holding    | (thousands)  |  currently
                                                           |              |              |              | affects job-
                                                           |              |              |              |   holding
                                                           |              |              |              |
            ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                           |              |              |              |
                                                           |              |              |              |
            All veterans1/.................................|      2,180   |     27.8     |      1,199   |     27.2
              Less than 30 percent disability rating.......|      1,295   |     17.4     |        604   |     13.4
              30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|        486   |     37.8     |        272   |     35.3
              60 percent or higher disability rating.......|        253   |     77.7     |        224   |     66.9
                                                           |              |              |              |
              War veterans.................................|      1,824   |     27.3     |      1,087   |     26.3
                Less than 30 percent disability rating.....|      1,053   |     15.9     |        535   |     13.2
                30- to 50- percent disability rating.......|        421   |     38.2     |        259   |     34.0
                60 percent or higher disability rating.....|        222   |     76.8     |        195   |     65.4
                                                           |              |              |              |
                Vietnam era................................|        819   |     30.8     |        270   |     43.4
                  Less than 30 percent disability rating...|        489   |     19.9     |        102   |     20.6
                  30- to 50- percent disability rating.....|        203   |     36.6     |         81   |     46.6
                  60 percent or higher disability rating...|         89   |     90.1     |         71   |      (2)
                                                           |              |              |              |
                  Vietnam theater..........................|        569   |     32.6     |        197   |     42.4
                    Less than 30 percent disability rating.|        312   |     19.4     |         66   |      (2)
                    30- to 50- percent disability rating...|        151   |     39.5     |         59   |      (2)
                    60 percent or higher disability rating.|         73   |      (2)     |         56   |      (2)
                                                           |              |              |              |
                  Outside the Vietnam theater..............|        250   |     26.6     |         73   |      (2)
                    Less than 30 percent disability rating.|        177   |     20.7     |         36   |      (2)
                    30- to 50- percent disability rating...|         52   |      (2)     |         22   |      (2)
                    60 percent or higher disability rating.|         16   |      (2)     |         15   |      (2)
                                                           |              |              |              |
                Other war veterans.........................|      1,005   |     24.5     |        817   |     20.7
                  Less than 30 percent disability rating...|        564   |     12.3     |        434   |     11.5
                  30- to 50- percent disability rating.....|        218   |     39.7     |        178   |     28.4
                  60 percent or higher disability rating...|        132   |     67.8     |        124   |     55.5
                                                           |              |              |              |
              Peacetime veterans...........................|        357   |     30.2     |        113   |     35.8
                Less than 30 percent disability rating.....|        242   |     24.4     |         68   |      (2)
                30- to 50- percent disability rating.......|         65   |      (2)     |         13   |      (2)
                60 percent or higher disability rating.....|         31   |      (2)     |         28   |      (2)
                                                           |              |              |              |
            ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
               1/  Includes a small number of veterans who did
            not report disability rating, as well as all
            veterans who  did not respond to the question on
            the effect of disability on jobholding.
               2/  Data not shown where base is less than
            75,000.
               NOTE:  Male veterans are men who served in the
            Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean
            war, World Wars I and II, and all other service
            periods. Because of the aging of the population,
            there are no longer any Vietnam-era veterans under
            30 years of age or any other war veterans under 45
            years of age.  A service-connected disability is a
            health condition or impairment caused or made
            worse by military service.  The associated
            disability rating, which can range from 0 to 100
            percent, is determined from a rating schedule
            published in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations,
            "Title 38." Additional information on periods of
            service and service-connected disability ratings
            appears in the Explanatory Note of this release.
 
 
 
Table 8.  Employment status of women 18 years and over by veteran status and period of service, September 1993, not seasonally
 
adjusted
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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                                               |            |                                                          |
                                               |            |                   Civilian labor force                   |
                                               |            |                                                          |
                                                             __________________________________________________________
                                               |            |         |            |            |                      |
                                               |  Civilian  |         |            |            |      Unemployed      |   Not in
     Veterans status and period of service     | noninsti-  |         |  Percent   |            |                      |   labor
                                                                                                 ______________________
                                               |  tutional  |         |     of     |            |         |            |   force
                                               | population |  Total  |   popu-    |  Employed  |         |  Percent   |
                                               |            |         |   lation   |            | Number  |     of     |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |   labor    |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |   force    |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
Total, 18 years and over.......................|    97,856  |  57,142 |    58.4    |    53,551  |   3,591 |     6.3    |    40,714
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Veterans1/...................................|     1,248  |     753 |    60.4    |       676  |      77 |    10.2    |       495
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
    War veterans...............................|       612  |     244 |    39.9    |       222  |      22 |     8.9    |       368
      Vietnam era..............................|       180  |     148 |    82.2    |       138  |      10 |     7.0    |        32
        Vietnam theater........................|        18  |      14 |     (2)    |        14  |    -    |     (2)    |         4
        Outside the Vietnam theater............|       162  |     134 |    82.5    |       124  |      10 |     7.7    |        28
      Other war veterans.......................|       432  |      96 |    22.2    |        85  |      11 |    11.8    |       336
    Peacetime veterans.........................|       636  |     509 |    80.1    |       454  |      55 |    10.8    |       127
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
  Nonveterans..................................|    96,608  |  56,389 |    58.4    |    52,874  |   3,515 |     6.2    |    40,219
                                               |            |         |            |            |         |            |
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   1/  Because of the aging of the population, there are no
longer any Vietnam-era veterans under 30 years of age or any
other war veterans under 45 years of age.
   2/  Data not shown where base is less than 75,000.
   NOTE:  Female veterans are women who served in the Armed
Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I
and II, and all other service periods. Nonveterans are women
who have never served in the Armed Forces.  Information on
specific periods of service appears in the Explanatory Note of
this release.