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Article: Measuring self-employment in the United States.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
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About 1 of 11 workers in the United States was self-employed in 1994; the Current Population Survey has been the lone source of data on self-employment over the past 55 years
Data on self-employment in the United States are regularly collected as part of the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) of the U.S. labor force. The CPS began in 1940, and data have been available essentially consistently since 1948. The survey came into being as a basis for determining how many people were unemployed at a time when the United States was still suffering the effects of the Great Depression of the 1930's.(1)
The CPS classifies employment in three principal ways: ...