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Industry and Occupation
Industry and Occupation
The U.S. Census Bureau currently collects data on industry, occupation, and class of worker for Americans in the labor force on several surveys. ACS, CPS and SIPP are the largest ones.
Publications
The Employment, Earnings, and Occupations of Post-9/11 Veterans
This report describes the employment, earnings, and occupations of Post-9/11 Veterans during the period between 2014 and 2018.
Retail Workers: 2018
This report provides a detailed description of the demographic and employment characteristics of retail workers.
Changes in the Census Industry and Occupation Classification Systems
This report describes the most recent changes in the Census industry and occupation classification systems.
Working Papers
Essential, Frontline, and High Risk: How COVID-19 Prioritized Low-wage
Who is essential, frontline, and high risk has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is a Primary Occupation? Comparing Occupation Measures in the ACS and the SIPP
This paper compares the 2013 ACS 1-year estimates with the SIPP 2014 Panel, Wave 1 estimates to assess if occupation is measured consistently across surveys.
2014 SIPP Evaluation Report: Class of Worker, Industry, and Occupation
This report describes the data review process for I&O content appearing on the SIPP 2014 Panel, Waves 1 and 2, and assesses the SIPP public use files.
Visualizations
The Foreign-Born Workforce
View detailed occupations and median earnings by foreign-born status from the 2019 American Community Survey.
Gender Pay Gap
The earnings wage gap by sex portrays the difference between median earnings for men and women who worked full-time, year-round in the past 12 months.
2020 Annual Survey of Manufactures
View how revenue for service industries has changed from 2018 to 2020.
Tables
Detailed Occupations by Race and Hispanic Origin: 2018 ACS
View and download tables on median earnings by race and detailed occupation.
Foreign Born Tables: ACS 2019
In which occupations do the foreign-born work? And how much do they earn (compared to the native-born)?
Multiple Job Holders Detailed Tables 2013-2016
View and download the table on multiple job holders by selected characteristics.
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