This area based composite SES measure was created through principal components analysis [ 27] and included the following census variables: proportion with a blue-collar job, proportion older than 16 years without a job, median household income, population living below 200% Federal Poverty Level, median gross rent, median value of owner-occupied houses, and a median education index [ 28].
Job prospects: proportion of graduates who find graduate-level employment, or study full-time, within six months of graduation.
Based on the self-rated satisfaction level and plan to shift jobs, the proportion of respondents actually dissatisfied with their job was recalculated to 49%%.
The American economy continues to add jobs in proportion to population growth.
About 18% of American workers hold part-time jobs, a proportion that has barely changed in 15 years.
Generating jobs in proportion with the growing youth population over the next 10 years will be a priority for Morocco and other north African countries.
Graduates are half as likely to be unemployed as non-graduates and two-thirds are in highly skilled jobs, a proportion rising substantially as we recover from recession.
About four tenths of individuals in the CI-EB group work in managerial jobs, a proportion that exceeds by far those observed in the other groups.
The University of Oxford undertook a project to identify the reasons why so few women in SET apply for lecturer posts, despite the fact that they are appointed to such jobs in proportion to their applications.
"As those industries have shorn jobs, the proportion of families with middle incomes has declined," says Douglas Hall, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Institute at the Economic Policy Institute, an economics-based think tank in Washington, D.C. "Manufacturing's role in the economy has changed, and we haven't wrapped our heads around what the implications are".
While 3% of Americans want to work but can't find a job, large proportions are also permanently or temporarily out of work on purpose: they're retired, in college, in the military, disabled or a stay-at-home parent.
