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Young adult employment during the recent recession

Chart 3. Percentage of young men employed during the 80 weeks of December 2007 to June 2009
Week	Birth years 1982-1983, Dec 2007-June 2009	Birth years 1980-1981, Dec 2007-June 2009
1	84.6	86.9
2	84.8	86.8
3	84.3	86.5
4	83.0	86.1
5	83.6	86.5
6	83.5	85.9
7	84.3	85.7
8	84.0	85.7
9	84.2	86.3
10	83.8	85.7
11	84.2	86.1
12	83.7	86.0
13	83.7	86.5
14	83.2	86.0
15	83.1	86.5
16	83.6	85.7
17	83.4	85.3
18	84.1	85.6
19	83.9	85.6
20	84.1	85.8
21	83.9	86.1
22	83.8	86.7
23	83.4	86.7
24	83.7	87.0
25	83.7	86.6
26	83.8	86.7
27	84.6	87.0
28	84.3	86.4
29	84.8	86.6
30	84.0	87.2
31	83.8	87.0
32	84.0	86.8
33	84.1	87.0
34	84.1	87.1
35	84.5	87.0
36	83.9	86.9
37	84.4	86.6
38	84.1	86.7
39	83.8	86.7
40	83.5	87.0
41	83.1	86.8
42	83.5	86.9
43	83.3	87.0
44	83.8	87.5
45	83.5	87.1
46	83.4	87.2
47	83.2	87.0
48	83.0	86.1
49	82.3	86.1
50	83.1	85.4
51	82.8	85.5
52	82.3	85.5
53	82.2	84.8
54	82.2	85.1
55	82.2	85.0
56	80.7	83.7
57	81.4	83.6
58	80.4	84.4
59	80.2	83.9
60	79.7	83.5
61	79.6	83.3
62	79.9	83.3
63	79.1	82.9
64	79.2	83.2
65	78.7	83.1
66	79.5	84.1
67	79.3	84.3
68	79.2	84.3
69	78.9	84.0
70	79.9	84.4
71	79.5	84.0
72	79.9	83.8
73	79.6	83.6
74	80.1	84.3
75	80.1	84.2
76	80.7	83.8
77	80.3	83.6
78	80.2	83.8
79	80.5	83.1
80	79.8	82.5

These data featured in the Issues in Labor Statistics article, Young adult employment during the recent recession