Occupational Distribution of the Economically Active Population: Persons Age Twenty-Five to Sixty-Four
"We sorted occupations into eight broad groups, displayed across four charts for ease of reading: professionals (25 percent of Americans age twenty-five to sixty-four in the labor force in 2000); other white-collar workers, such as clerks and salespeople (23 percent); managers (11 percent); proprietors (2 percent); skilled manual workers (12 percent); unskilled and service workers (25 percent); farmers (.5 percent); and farm laborers (.5 percent)."—p. 108, Century of Difference