About the Numbers About the numbers Sources of the data Information on 1998 and projected 2008 occupational employment was developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of its ongoing Occupational Employment Projections Program. The information presented on this site was developed to produce the 2000-2001 edition of Occupational Projections and Training Data . Those data are available in tab-delimited format for those desiring to conduct their own analyses of the data. To download this file, visit our ftp site . A crosswalk, based on each survey's compatibility with the 1980 Standard Occupational Classification, was used to attribute CPS data to an equivalent occupation in the industry-occupation matrix.
Projections updates National occupational projections are developed every other year.
The next National projections cycle will cover the 2000-2010 period. Those projections are scheduled to be published in the November 2001 Monthly Labor Review and to be available on this web site very soon after that date. Definitions 1998 total employment. Total employment includes wage and salary workers, self-employed workers, and unpaid family workers. This reflects the percent of total workers employed in an occupation in 1998 whose primary or secondary job was in an unincorporated business that they owned.