Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 67, Chart 1

Indicator 67. Employment of College Students

Employment of 16- to 24-year-old full-time college students, by hours worked per week: October 1970 to October 1994

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Condition of Education, 1995; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, unpublished data.

Full-time college students of the 1990s are much more likely to be employed than those of the early 1970s. The students of 1994 are also working longer hours than those of the early 1970s. In 1994, 28 percent of 16- to 24-year-old full-time students worked 20 or more hours per week compared to 14 percent in 1970. There has been less change in the working patterns of part-time students, except for a drop in the percent working 35 or more hours per week.