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Revised Data from August 1995 Vietnam Veterans Supplement
Table 1.  Employment status of men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, race, and Hispanic origin,
August 1995, not seasonally adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
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|          |                                                      |
|          |                 Civilian labor force                 |
|          |          |          |          |                     |
Veteran status, period of service,   | Civilian |          |          |          |      Unemployed     |  Not in
race,                  | noninsti-|          |  Percent |          |                     |   labor
and Hispanic origin           | tutional |          |    of    |          |          |          |   force
|population|   Total  | populati-| Employed |          |  Percent |
|          |          |    on    |          |  Number  |    of    |
|          |          |          |          |          |   labor  |
|          |          |          |          |          |   force  |
|          |          |          |          |          |          |
TOTAL                  |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Total, 18 years and over................|   91,508 |   70,144 |   76.7   |   66,705 |    3,439 |    4.9   |   21,364
Veterans(1)..........................|   24,810 |   14,923 |   60.2   |   14,362 |      562 |    3.8   |    9,887
War veterans......................|   17,941 |    9,252 |   51.6   |    8,931 |      322 |    3.5   |    8,689
Vietnam era....................|    7,903 |    6,780 |   85.8   |    6,551 |      229 |    3.4   |    1,123
Vietnam theater.............|    3,811 |    3,213 |   84.3   |    3,090 |      124 |    3.9   |      597
Outside the Vietnam theater.|    4,092 |    3,566 |   87.1   |    3,462 |      105 |    2.9   |      526
Other war veterans.............|   10,038 |    2,472 |   24.6   |    2,380 |       93 |    3.8   |    7,566
Peacetime veterans................|    6,869 |    5,671 |   82.6   |    5,431 |      240 |    4.2   |    1,198
Nonveterans..........................|   66,698 |   55,221 |   82.8   |   52,343 |    2,878 |    5.2   |   11,477
White                  |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Vietnam era....................|    7,040 |    6,093 |   86.5   |    5,912 |      181 |    3.0   |      947
Vietnam theater.............|    3,339 |    2,824 |   84.6   |    2,729 |       95 |    3.4   |      515
Outside the Vietnam theater.|    3,701 |    3,269 |   88.3   |    3,183 |       86 |    2.6   |      432
Other war veterans.............|    9,322 |    2,340 |   25.1   |    2,250 |       90 |    3.8   |    6,983
Nonveterans..........................|   55,583 |   46,820 |   84.2   |   44,780 |    2,040 |    4.4   |    8,762
Black                  |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Total, 18 years and over................|    9,811 |    7,000 |   71.3   |    6,260 |      740 |   10.6   |    2,811
Veterans(1)..........................|    2,171 |    1,403 |   64.6   |    1,305 |       98 |    7.0   |      768
War veterans......................|    1,331 |      664 |   49.9   |      624 |       40 |    6.1   |      667
Vietnam era....................|      718 |      563 |   78.5   |      526 |       37 |    6.6   |      154
Vietnam theater.............|      388 |      318 |   81.9   |      294 |       23 |    7.3   |       70
Outside the Vietnam theater.|      330 |      246 |   74.5   |      232 |       14 |    5.8   |       84
Other war veterans.............|      613 |      101 |   16.4   |       98 |        3 |    2.9   |      512
Peacetime veterans................|      840 |      739 |   88.0   |      681 |       58 |    7.9   |      101
Nonveterans..........................|    7,640 |    5,597 |   73.3   |    4,955 |      641 |   11.5   |    2,043
Hispanic origin             |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Total, 18 years and over................|    8,939 |    7,339 |   82.1   |    6,704 |      635 |    8.7   |    1,600
Veterans(1)..........................|      854 |      624 |   73.0   |      569 |       55 |    8.8   |      230
War veterans......................|      502 |      313 |   62.4   |      289 |       24 |    7.7   |      189
Vietnam era....................|      291 |      259 |   89.1   |      237 |       22 |    8.4   |       32
Other war veterans.............|      211 |       54 |   25.8   |       52 |        3 |    (2)   |      157
Peacetime veterans................|      352 |      310 |   88.1   |      280 |       30 |    9.8   |       42
Nonveterans..........................|    8,085 |    6,716 |   83.1   |    6,136 |      580 |    8.6   |    1,370
1 Because of the aging of the population, there are no longer any Vietnam-era veterans under 35 years of age or any
other war veterans under 55 years of age.
2 Data not shown where base is less than 75,000.
NOTE:   Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I
and II, and all other service periods. Nonveterans are men who have never served in the Armed Forces. Information on
specific periods of service appears in the Technical Note of this release.  Detail for the above race and
Hispanic-origin groups will not sum to totals because data for the "other races" group are not presented and
Hispanics are included in both the white and black population groups.
Table 2.  Employment status of men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and age, August 1995, not
| Civilian |          |          |          |      Unemployed     |  Not in
Veteran status, period of service, and | noninsti-|          |  Percent |          |                     |   labor
age                   | tutional |          |    of    |          |          |          |   force
VETERANS                |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Total, 18 years and over................|   24,810 |   14,923 |   60.2   |   14,362 |      562 |    3.8   |    9,887
18 to 24 years......................|      308 |      294 |   95.4   |      277 |       17 |    5.6   |       14
25 to 34 years......................|    2,108 |    1,990 |   94.4   |    1,909 |       82 |    4.1   |      118
35 to 44 years......................|    3,174 |    2,889 |   91.0   |    2,731 |      158 |    5.5   |      285
55 to 64 years......................|    4,986 |    3,085 |   61.9   |    2,997 |       89 |    2.9   |    1,900
65 years and over...................|    8,329 |    1,392 |   16.7   |    1,326 |       66 |    4.7   |    6,938
War veterans              |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Total, 35 years and over................|   17,941 |    9,252 |   51.6   |    8,931 |      322 |    3.5   |    8,689
Vietnam era               |          |          |          |          |          |          |
55 to 64 years......................|      855 |      593 |   69.3   |      578 |       15 |    2.6   |      262
65 years and over...................|      223 |       18 |    8.1   |       14 |        4 |    (1)   |      205
Vietnam theater             |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Total, 35 years and over................|    3,811 |    3,213 |   84.3   |    3,090 |      124 |    3.9   |      597
55 to 64 years......................|      445 |      313 |   70.3   |      306 |        7 |    2.1   |      132
65 years and over...................|      137 |        7 |    5.4   |        4 |        4 |    (1)   |      129
Outside the Vietnam theater       |          |          |          |          |          |          |
35 to 44 years......................|    1,105 |    1,005 |   90.9   |      959 |       45 |    4.5   |      101
65 years and over...................|       86 |       11 |   12.5   |       11 |     -    |    (1)   |       75
Other war veterans           |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Total, 55 years and over................|   10,038 |    2,472 |   24.6   |    2,380 |       93 |    3.8   |    7,566
Peacetime veterans           |          |          |          |          |          |          |
65 years and over...................|      310 |       45 |   14.5   |       43 |        2 |    (1)   |      265
NONVETERANS               |          |          |          |          |          |          |
18 to 24 years......................|   12,135 |   10,054 |   82.9   |    8,958 |    1,097 |   10.9   |    2,081
25 to 34 years......................|   17,913 |   16,638 |   92.9   |   15,887 |      750 |    4.5   |    1,276
45 to 54 years......................|    9,263 |    8,156 |   88.1   |    7,890 |      266 |    3.3   |    1,106
65 years and over...................|    4,819 |      702 |   14.6   |      664 |       38 |    5.5   |    4,117
NOTE: Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I
specific periods of service appears in the Technical Note of this release.  Dash represents zero.
Table 3.  Employed men 18 years and over by occupation, veteran status, and period of service, August 1995, not seasonally
(Percent distribution)
|                                                              |
|                           Veterans                           |
|        |                                            |        |
|        |                War veterans                |        |
|        |        |                          |        |        | Nonvet-
Occupation                        |        |        |        Vietnam era       |        | Peace- |  erans
|  Total |        |                          |        |  time  |
|        |        |        |        |        |  Other |veterans|
|        |  Total |        |        | Outside|   war  |        |
|        |        |  Total | Vietnam|   the  |veterans|        |
|        |        |        | theater| Vietnam|        |        |
|        |        |        |        | theater|        |        |
|        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
Total, 18 years and over (thousands)......................| 14,362 |  8,931 |  6,551 |  3,090 |  3,462 |  2,380 |  5,431 | 52,343
Percent..............................................|  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0
Managerial and professional specialty..................|   28.9 |   32.0 |   31.9 |   27.8 |   35.5 |   32.6 |   23.7 |   27.4
Executive, adminstrative, and managerial............|   17.2 |   19.5 |   19.3 |   16.8 |   21.5 |   20.3 |   13.5 |   14.5
Professional specialty..............................|   11.6 |   12.5 |   12.6 |   11.0 |   14.0 |   12.3 |   10.2 |   12.8
Technical, sales, and administrative support...........|   21.6 |   22.0 |   21.0 |   22.0 |   20.2 |   24.8 |   20.8 |   18.6
Technicians and related support.....................|    3.8 |    3.4 |    3.8 |    4.4 |    3.3 |    2.2 |    4.4 |    2.7
Sales occupations...................................|   11.3 |   12.5 |   10.6 |   10.6 |   10.7 |   17.5 |    9.4 |   10.7
Administrative support, including clerical..........|    6.5 |    6.2 |    6.6 |    7.0 |    6.2 |    5.0 |    7.0 |    5.2
Service occupations....................................|    9.2 |    7.6 |    7.3 |    8.6 |    6.1 |    8.6 |   11.8 |    9.8
Protective service..................................|    4.5 |    3.5 |    3.8 |    4.2 |    3.4 |    2.8 |    6.0 |    2.4
Other service occupations...........................|    4.7 |    4.1 |    3.5 |    4.4 |    2.7 |    5.7 |    5.8 |    7.3
Precision production, craft, and repair................|   19.6 |   19.1 |   21.7 |   22.7 |   20.8 |   12.0 |   20.4 |   18.3
Mechanics and repairers.............................|    7.8 |    7.5 |    8.6 |    8.7 |    8.6 |    4.3 |    8.4 |    6.1
Construction trades.................................|    7.2 |    7.0 |    7.9 |    8.5 |    7.3 |    4.5 |    7.6 |    7.8
Other precision production, craft, and repair.......|    4.6 |    4.7 |    5.2 |    5.5 |    4.9 |    3.2 |    4.4 |    4.4
Operators, fabricators, and laborers...................|   17.3 |   15.0 |   16.0 |   16.7 |   15.3 |   12.4 |   21.0 |   21.0
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors.......|    6.4 |    5.3 |    6.1 |    6.6 |    5.8 |    3.1 |    8.3 |    7.6
Transportation and material moving occupations......|    7.8 |    7.1 |    7.1 |    7.5 |    6.8 |    7.0 |    9.0 |    7.0
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.|    3.1 |    2.6 |    2.7 |    2.7 |    2.7 |    2.3 |    3.8 |    6.4
Farming, forestry, and fishing.........................|    3.4 |    4.1 |    2.1 |    2.2 |    2.1 |    9.7 |    2.3 |    4.9
NOTE: Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II, and
all other service periods. Nonveterans are men who have never served in the Armed Forces. Information on specific periods of
service appears in the Technical Note of this release.
Table 4.  Employment status of male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, presence of service-connected disability,
and reported disability rating, August 1995, not seasonally adjusted
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Period of service, presence of disability, and  | noninsti-|          |  Percent |          |                     |   labor
reported disability rating            | tutional |          |    of    |          |          |          |   force
VETERANS                     |          |          |          |          |          |          |
With service-connected disability.................|    2,257 |    1,004 |   44.5   |      954 |       50 |    5.0   |    1,253
Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|    1,281 |      666 |   52.0   |      635 |       31 |    4.6   |      615
30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|      461 |      193 |   41.9   |      178 |       15 |    7.9   |      268
60 percent or higher disability rating.......|      338 |       71 |   20.9   |       67 |        4 |    (1)   |      267
Disability rating not reported...............|      177 |       74 |   41.9   |       74 |     -    |    (1)   |      102
Without service-connected disability..............|   19,891 |   12,314 |   61.9   |   11,849 |      465 |    3.8   |    7,576
Presence of disability not reported...............|    2,662 |    1,605 |   60.3   |    1,558 |       47 |    2.9   |    1,057
War veterans                   |          |          |          |          |          |          |
With service-connected disability.................|    1,842 |      711 |   38.6   |      689 |       22 |    3.0   |    1,131
Disability rating not reported...............|      142 |       45 |   31.9   |       45 |     -    |    (1)   |       96
Without service-connected disability..............|   14,272 |    7,613 |   53.3   |    7,328 |      284 |    3.7   |    6,659
Presence of disability not reported...............|    1,827 |      929 |   50.8   |      913 |       16 |    1.7   |      899
Vietnam era                    |          |          |          |          |          |          |
With service-connected disability.................|      812 |      541 |   66.6   |      522 |       19 |    3.5   |      271
Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|      467 |      365 |   78.1   |      357 |        8 |    2.2   |      102
30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|      201 |      109 |   54.3   |       99 |       10 |    9.2   |       92
60 percent or higher disability rating.......|       88 |       31 |   35.7   |       31 |        1 |    (1)   |       57
Disability rating not reported...............|       55 |       36 |    (1)   |       36 |     -    |    (1)   |       20
Without service-connected disability..............|    6,203 |    5,543 |   89.4   |    5,349 |      194 |    3.5   |      660
Presence of disability not reported...............|      888 |      696 |   78.4   |      681 |       16 |    2.2   |      192
Vietnam theater                  |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|      294 |      240 |   81.5   |      234 |        5 |    2.2   |       54
30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|      157 |       76 |   48.6   |       70 |        6 |    8.0   |       81
Presence of disability not reported...............|      434 |      346 |   79.8   |      340 |        6 |    1.7   |       88
Outside the Vietnam theater            |          |          |          |          |          |          |
With service-connected disability.................|      245 |      176 |   71.9   |      169 |        7 |    3.9   |       69
30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|       45 |       33 |    (1)   |       29 |        4 |    (1)   |       11
60 percent or higher disability rating.......|        8 |        3 |    (1)   |        3 |     -    |    (1)   |        5
Disability rating not reported...............|       19 |       15 |    (1)   |       15 |     -    |    (1)   |        4
Without service-connected disability..............|    3,393 |    3,040 |   89.6   |    2,952 |       88 |    2.9   |      353
Other war veterans                |          |          |          |          |          |          |
With service-connected disability.................|    1,030 |      170 |   16.5   |      168 |        2 |    1.4   |      860
30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|      180 |       35 |   19.5   |       35 |        1 |    (1)   |      145
60 percent or higher disability rating.......|      189 |       17 |    8.9   |       17 |     -    |    (1)   |      172
Disability rating not reported...............|       87 |       10 |   11.3   |       10 |     -    |    (1)   |       77
Without service-connected disability..............|    8,069 |    2,070 |   25.7   |    1,980 |       91 |    4.4   |    5,999
Presence of disability not reported...............|      939 |      232 |   24.7   |      232 |     -    |     -    |      707
Peacetime veterans                |          |          |          |          |          |          |
Less then 30 percent disability rating.......|      240 |      193 |   80.4   |      172 |       21 |   10.8   |       47
30- to 50- percent disability rating.........|       80 |       49 |   61.2   |       44 |        4 |    (1)   |       31
60 percent or higher disability rating.......|       61 |       22 |    (1)   |       20 |        3 |    (1)   |       38
service appears in the Technical Note of this release.  A service-connected disability is a health condition or impairment
caused or made worse by military service.  The associated disability rating, which can range from 0 to 100 percent, is
determined from a rating schedule published in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, "Title 38." Additional information on
periods of service and service-connected disability ratings appears in the Technical Note of this release.  Dash represnets
Table 5.  Employed men 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, presence of service-connected disability, and
class of worker, August 1995, not seasonally adjusted
|            |              Percent distribution by class of worker
|            |          |                                           |
|            |          |  Nonagricultural wage and salary workers  |Agricultural
|    Total   |          |                                           |  wage and
Veteran status, period of service, and presence | employed(1)|          |          |                                |   salary,
of disability                  | (thousands)|          |          |           Government           |self-employ-
|            |   Total  |          |                                |     ed,
|            |          |  Private |          |          |          | and unpaid
|            |          |  sector  |          |          |   State  |   family
|            |          |          |   Total  |  Federal |    and   |   workers
|            |          |          |          |          |   local  |
|            |          |          |          |          |          |
All veterans....................................|    14,362  |  100.0   |   69.4   |   17.3   |    6.1   |   11.1   |    13.3
With service-connected disability.............|       954  |  100.0   |   60.2   |   26.1   |   16.1   |   10.0   |    13.7
Without service-connected disability..........|    11,849  |  100.0   |   69.9   |   16.9   |    5.5   |   11.4   |    13.2
War veterans..................................|     8,931  |  100.0   |   66.2   |   18.0   |    6.7   |   11.4   |    15.8
With service-connected disability...........|       689  |  100.0   |   58.5   |   26.8   |   16.2   |   10.6   |    14.8
Without service-connected disability........|     7,328  |  100.0   |   66.7   |   17.6   |    6.0   |   11.5   |    15.7
Vietnam era.................................|     6,551  |  100.0   |   68.6   |   20.7   |    8.2   |   12.5   |    10.8
With service-connected disability.........|       522  |  100.0   |   60.9   |   29.5   |   18.9   |   10.6   |     9.6
Without service-connected disability......|     5,349  |  100.0   |   69.2   |   20.2   |    7.5   |   12.7   |    10.6
Vietnam theater...........................|     3,090  |  100.0   |   67.8   |   22.2   |    8.6   |   13.6   |    10.0
With service-connected disability.......|       353  |  100.0   |   65.3   |   27.1   |   17.3   |    9.8   |     7.6
Without service-connected disability....|     2,397  |  100.0   |   68.0   |   22.0   |    7.8   |   14.1   |    10.0
Outside the Vietnam theater...............|     3,462  |  100.0   |   69.3   |   19.3   |    7.8   |   11.4   |    11.5
With service-connected disability.......|       169  |  100.0   |   51.7   |   34.5   |   22.2   |   12.3   |    13.7
Other war veterans..........................|     2,380  |  100.0   |   59.7   |   10.8   |    2.5   |    8.3   |    29.5
With service-connected disability.........|       168  |  100.0   |   50.8   |   18.3   |    7.8   |   10.5   |    30.9
Without service-connected disability......|     1,980  |  100.0   |   59.8   |   10.5   |    2.2   |    8.3   |    29.7
Peacetime veterans............................|     5,431  |  100.0   |   74.7   |   16.1   |    5.3   |   10.8   |     9.3
With service-connected disability...........|       265  |  100.0   |   64.7   |   24.3   |   15.9   |    8.4   |    11.0
Without service-connected disability........|     4,521  |  100.0   |   75.1   |   15.9   |    4.6   |   11.3   |     9.0
Nonveterans.....................................|    52,343  |  100.0   |   77.1   |   10.9   |    2.1   |    8.9   |    11.9
1 Includes veterans who did not report presence of disability.
NOTE:   Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II, and
service appears in the Technical Note of this release.  A service-connected disability is a health condition or impairment caused
or made worse by military service.  The associated disability rating, which can range from 0 to 100 percent, is determined from a
rating schedule published in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, "Title 38." Additional information on periods of service and
service-connected disability ratings also appears in the Technical Note of this release.
Table 6.  Male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, presence of service-connected disability, and use of veterans'
education and training programs, August 1995, not seasonally adjusted
|           |                          |
|           |   Percent distribution   |           Percent reporting use of
|           |    by reported use of    |             specific programs(2)
|           |         programs         |
|           |        |        |        |                          |
|           |        |        |        |    U.S. Department of    |U.S. Department of
|           |        |        |        |     Veterans Affairs     |  Labor-sponsored
|  Total(1) |        |        |        |                          |     programs
Period of service and presence of disability |(thousands)|        |        |        |                          |
|           |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
|           |  Total | Used no|Used any|        | Veter- |        |        |
|           |        | program| program|        |   ans  |  Voca- |  State |
|           |        |        |        |   GI   | Educa- | tional |   job  |  Other
|           |        |        |        | Bill(3)| tional |rehabil-| service|programs-
|           |        |        |        |        | Assist-| itation|offices-|   (5)
|           |        |        |        |        |  ance  |        |   (4)  |
|           |        |        |        |        |Programs|        |        |
All veterans.................................|   24,810  | 100.0  |  56.6  |  43.4  |  37.8  |   5.0  |   1.3  |   2.7  |    2.0
With service-connected disability..........|    2,257  | 100.0  |  45.5  |  54.5  |  46.3  |   6.5  |   7.9  |   4.2  |    2.4
Without service-connected disability.......|   19,891  | 100.0  |  57.9  |  42.1  |  36.8  |   4.9  |    .5  |   2.5  |    1.9
War veterans...............................|   17,941  | 100.0  |  52.7  |  47.3  |  43.3  |   3.9  |   1.4  |   2.1  |    1.5
With service-connected disability........|    1,842  | 100.0  |  43.8  |  56.2  |  49.8  |   5.5  |   7.5  |   3.3  |    1.4
Without service-connected disability.....|   14,272  | 100.0  |  53.8  |  46.2  |  42.5  |   3.7  |    .6  |   2.0  |    1.5
Vietnam era..............................|    7,903  | 100.0  |  48.1  |  51.9  |  47.2  |   4.4  |   1.9  |   3.7  |    2.8
With service-connected disability......|      812  | 100.0  |  30.4  |  69.6  |  61.4  |   8.1  |  12.2  |   5.2  |    2.8
Without service-connected disability...|    6,203  | 100.0  |  50.3  |  49.7  |  45.4  |   3.9  |    .6  |   3.5  |    2.8
Vietnam theater........................|    3,811  | 100.0  |  43.3  |  56.7  |  51.1  |   5.5  |   3.0  |   4.4  |    3.1
With service-connected disability....|      567  | 100.0  |  31.6  |  68.4  |  59.6  |   8.3  |  14.9  |   5.5  |    2.7
Without service-connected disability.|    2,810  | 100.0  |  45.6  |  54.4  |  49.4  |   5.0  |    .7  |   4.1  |    3.2
Outside the Vietnam theater............|    4,092  | 100.0  |  52.5  |  47.5  |  43.7  |   3.3  |    .9  |   3.1  |    2.5
With service-connected disability....|      245  | 100.0  |  27.7  |  72.3  |  65.3  |   7.6  |   6.3  |   4.5  |    2.9
Other war veterans.......................|   10,038  | 100.0  |  56.3  |  43.7  |  40.3  |   3.6  |    .9  |    .9  |     .5
With service-connected disability......|    1,030  | 100.0  |  54.3  |  45.7  |  40.7  |   3.4  |   3.7  |   1.8  |     .3
Without service-connected disability...|    8,069  | 100.0  |  56.5  |  43.5  |  40.3  |   3.6  |    .6  |    .8  |     .6
Peacetime veterans.........................|    6,869  | 100.0  |  67.1  |  32.9  |  22.8  |   8.0  |   1.0  |   4.2  |    3.3
With service-connected disability........|      415  | 100.0  |  53.2  |  46.8  |  30.7  |  11.1  |   9.8  |   8.4  |    6.9
Without service-connected disability.....|    5,619  | 100.0  |  68.1  |  31.9  |  22.3  |   7.7  |    .3  |   3.8  |    3.0
1 Includes veterans who did not report presence of disability and/or information on use of programs.
2 The sum of the percentages using specific programs will not equal the percentages for "used any program" because some veterans
used more than one program.
3 Includes educational assistance, on-the-job training, and apprenticeship.
4 Provides such services as job counseling, testing, and employment referral and placement.
5 Includes the Transition Assistance Program (TAP), the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), and the Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act (CETA).
Table 7.  Disabled male veterans 18 years and over by period of service, disability rating, and effect of disability on
jobholding, August 1995, not seasonally adjusted
|                           Disabled veterans
|                 |                 |
|                 |                 |      Unemployed or not in the
|                 |                 |            labor force
Period of service and disability rating        |                 |  Percent whose  |
|      Total      |    disability   |                 |
|   (thousands)   |     affected    |                 |  Percent whose
|                 |    past job-    |      Total      |    disability
|                 |     holding     |   (thousands)   |    currently
|                 |                 |                 |   affects job-
|                 |                 |                 |     holding
|                 |                 |                 |
All veterans(1)........................................|       2,257     |       28.8      |       1,303     |       30.4
Less than 30 percent disability rating...............|       1,281     |       16.9      |         646     |       15.2
30- to 50- percent disability rating.................|         461     |       40.7      |         283     |       34.7
60 percent or higher disability rating...............|         338     |       60.1      |         271     |       63.0
War veterans.........................................|       1,842     |       28.0      |       1,153     |       27.9
Less than 30 percent disability rating.............|       1,042     |       16.1      |         578     |       15.0
30- to 50- percent disability rating...............|         382     |       40.3      |         248     |       30.4
60 percent or higher disability rating.............|         277     |       57.6      |         230     |       57.1
Vietnam era........................................|         812     |       29.2      |         290     |       39.6
Less than 30 percent disability rating...........|         467     |       16.8      |         111     |       31.4
30- to 50- percent disability rating.............|         201     |       41.6      |         102     |       30.8
60 percent or higher disability rating...........|          88     |       69.2      |          58     |       (2)
Vietnam theater..................................|         567     |       28.2      |         214     |       40.5
Less than 30 percent disability rating.........|         294     |       13.5      |          60     |       (2)
30- to 50- percent disability rating...........|         157     |       36.6      |          87     |       27.8
60 percent or higher disability rating.........|          80     |       67.2      |          52     |       (2)
Outside the Vietnam theater......................|         245     |       31.4      |          76     |       36.9
30- to 50- percent disability rating...........|          45     |       (2)       |          15     |       (2)
60 percent or higher disability rating.........|           8     |       (2)       |           5     |       (2)
Other war veterans.................................|       1,030     |       27.0      |         863     |       23.9
60 percent or higher disability rating...........|         189     |       52.2      |         172     |       51.4
Peacetime veterans...................................|         415     |       32.5      |         150     |       50.3
Less than 30 percent disability rating.............|         240     |       20.3      |          68     |       (2)
30- to 50- percent disability rating...............|          80     |       42.8      |          35     |       (2)
60 percent or higher disability rating.............|          61     |       (2)       |          41     |       (2)
1 Includes veterans who did not report disability rating, as well as those who did not respond to the question on the effect
of disability on jobholding.
NOTE:   Male veterans are men who served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II,
and all other service periods. Nonveterans are men who have never served in the Armed Forces. Information on specific periods
of service appears in the Technical Note of this release.  A service-connected disability is a health condition or impairment
periods of service and service-connected disability ratings also appears in the Technical Note of this release.
Table 8.  Employment status of women 18 years and over by veteran status and period of service, August 1995, not seasonally
|           |                                                           |
|           |                    Civilian labor force                   |
|           |           |           |           |                       |
|  Civilian |           |           |           |       Unemployed      |   Not in
Veteran status and period of service     | noninsti- |           |           |           |                       |   labor
|  tutional |           |  Percent  |           |           |           |   force
| population|   Total   |     of    |  Employed |           |  Percent  |
|           |           | population|           |   Number  |     of    |
|           |           |           |           |           |   labor   |
|           |           |           |           |           |   force   |
|           |           |           |           |           |           |
Total, 18 years and over......................|   99,846  |   59,449  |    59.5   |   56,088  |    3,361  |     5.7   |   40,397
Veterans(1).................................|    1,356  |      793  |    58.5   |      724  |       69  |     8.7   |      563
War veterans..............................|      573  |      217  |    37.9   |      204  |       13  |     5.8   |      356
Vietnam era.............................|      173  |      143  |    82.4   |      137  |        5  |     3.6   |       30
Vietnam theater.......................|       26  |       24  |    (2)    |       24  |     -     |    (2)    |        2
Outside the Vietnam theater...........|      147  |      119  |    80.7   |      114  |        5  |     4.4   |       28
Other war veterans......................|      400  |       75  |    18.6   |       67  |        7  |     9.9   |      325
Peacetime veterans........................|      783  |      576  |    73.6   |      519  |       57  |     9.9   |      207
With service-connected disability.........|      105  |       69  |    65.8   |       61  |        8  |    (2)    |       36
Without service-connected disability......|    1,088  |      644  |    59.2   |      594  |       50  |     7.8   |      444
Presence of disability not reported.......|      163  |       80  |    49.3   |       69  |       11  |    13.7   |       83
Nonveterans.................................|   98,490  |   58,656  |    59.6   |   55,364  |    3,292  |     5.6   |   39,834
1  Because of the aging of the population, there are no longer any Vietnam-era veterans under 35 years of age or any other war
veterans under 55 years of age.
2  Data not shown where base is less than 75,000.
NOTE:    Female veterans are women who served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II,
and all other service periods. Nonveterans are women who have never served in the Armed Forces. Information on specific periods of
Table 9.  Employment status of veterans 18 years old and over by year of discharge from the Armed Forces, sex, race, and
Hispanic origin, August 1995, not seasonally adjusted
|             |                                                                       |
|             |                          Civilian labor force                         |
|   Civilian  |           |           |                       |                       |
Year of discharge, sex, race, |  noninsti-  |           |           |        Employed       |       Unemployed      |   Not in
and Hispanic origin      |   tutional  |           |  Percent  |                       |                       |   labor
|  population |   Total   |     of    |           |           |           |           |   force
|             |           | population|           |  Percent  |           |  Percent  |
|             |           |           |   Total   |     of    |   Number  |     of    |
|             |           |           |           | population|           |labor force|
|             |           |           |           |           |           |           |
TOTAL             |             |           |           |           |           |           |           |
Prior to 1965.................|    11,273   |    3,870  |    34.3   |    3,724  |    33.0   |      146  |     3.8   |    7,402
1965 to 1974..................|     5,351   |    4,509  |    84.3   |    4,350  |    81.3   |      159  |     3.5   |      842
1985 to 1990..................|     1,560   |    1,404  |    90.0   |    1,344  |    86.2   |       59  |     4.2   |      156
Year not available............|     3,864   |    2,320  |    60.1   |    2,245  |    58.1   |       75  |     3.2   |    1,544
Men              |             |           |           |           |           |           |           |
1991 to 1995..................|     1,257   |    1,170  |    93.1   |    1,111  |    88.4   |       58  |     5.0   |       87
Women             |             |           |           |           |           |           |           |
Prior to 1965.................|       401   |      101  |    25.1   |       89  |    22.1   |       12  |    12.0   |      300
1965 to 1974..................|        88   |       76  |    86.0   |       72  |    82.0   |        4  |     4.7   |       12
1975 to 1984..................|       228   |      174  |    76.3   |      167  |    73.1   |        7  |     4.2   |       54
1985 to 1990..................|       210   |      172  |    81.9   |      156  |    74.5   |       15  |     9.0   |       38
1991 to 1995..................|       209   |      159  |    76.1   |      140  |    67.3   |       18  |    11.6   |       50
Year not available............|       220   |      112  |    50.9   |       99  |    45.2   |       13  |    11.3   |      108
White             |             |           |           |           |           |           |           |
1991 to 1995..................|     1,150   |    1,043  |    90.7   |      991  |    86.2   |       51  |     4.9   |      107
Black             |             |           |           |           |           |           |           |
Prior to 1965.................|       564   |      156  |    27.7   |      144  |    25.5   |       12  |     7.8   |      408
Year not available............|       540   |      319  |    59.1   |      295  |    54.8   |       23  |     7.4   |      221
Hispanic origin        |             |           |           |           |           |           |           |
Prior to 1965.................|       235   |       88  |    37.2   |       80  |    34.1   |        7  |     8.4   |      148
1975 to 1984..................|       110   |       95  |    87.1   |       85  |    77.7   |       10  |    10.8   |       14
1985 to 1990..................|        44   |       38  |    (1)    |       33  |    (1)    |        5  |    (1)    |        6
Year not available............|       182   |      132  |    72.7   |      125  |    68.6   |        7  |     5.6   |       50
NOTE: Veterans are men and women who served in the Armed Forces during the Vietnam era, the Korean war, World Wars I and II,
and all other service periods. Information on specific periods of service appears in the Technical Note of this release. Detail
for the above race and Hispanic-origin groups will not sum to totals because data for the "other races" group are not presented
and Hispanics are included in both the white and black population groups.
Last Modified Date: October 16, 2001
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