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QT-P25. Class of Worker by Sex, Place of Work, and Veteran Status: 2000

Subject Number Percent
     
CLASS OF WORKER    
 Employed civilian population 16 and over 21,349 100.0%
Private for-profit wage and salary workers 12,677 59.4%
 Employees of own corporation 978 4.6%
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers 1,770 8.3%
Local government workers 1,037 4.9%
State government workers 3,736 17.5%
Federal government workers 220 1.0%
Self-employed workers 1,806 8.5%
 In agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting 62 0.3%
Unpaid family workers 103 0.5%
     
  Employed civilian females 16 and over 9,931 100.0%
Private for-profit wage and salary workers 5,555 55.9%
 Employees of own corpoartion 276 2.8%
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers 1,016 10.2%
Local government workers 640 6.4%
State government workers 2,042 20.6%
Federal government workers 108 1.1%
Self-employed workers 524 5.3%
 In agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting 6 0.1%
Unpaid family workers 46 0.5%
     
PLACE OF WORK    
 Workers 16 years and over 20,985 100.0%
Workers in state of residence 20,674 98.5%
 Workers in county of residence 18,083 86.2%
 Workers outside county of residence 2,591 12.3%
Workers outside state of residence 311 1.5%
     
VETERAN STATUS AND PERIOD OF SERVICE    
 Civilian veterans 18 and over 3,736 100.0%
Percent of civilians 18 years and over 10.4 (X)
Persian Gulf War era (August 1990 or later) 406 10.9%
 Served September 1980 or later only 351 9.4%
  Served 2 or more years 287 7.7%
May 1975 to July 1990 only 436 11.7%
 Served September 1980 to July 1990 only 241 6.5%
  Served 2 or more years 195 5.2%
Vietnam era (August 1964 to April 1975) 1,080 28.9%
 Served also in Korean War or World War II 59 1.6%
Korean War (June 1950 to January 1955) 607 16.2%
 Served also in World War II 100 2.7%
World War II (September 1940 to July 1947) 853 22.8%
Other service only 17 0.5%

 

Date: October 2, 2002

[Data based on a sample]
(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P26, P39, P40, and P51.
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