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. This reflects the proportion of all workers in an occupation who work fewer than 35 hours per week. Job openings due to growth plus total replacement needs represent annual average job openings stemming from projected employment change over the 1998-2008 period and replacement of workers who leave their jobs to work in another occupation, stop working because of retirement or other reasons, or die. Job openings due to growth plus net replacement needs represent annual average job openings stemming from projected employment change over the 1998-2008 period and net replacement of workers who leave their jobs to work in another occupation, leave the labor force because of retirement or other reasons, or die. Net replacements are less than total replacements because a measure of entrants is subtracted from the number leaving the occupation.