Albuquerque (not one of your 36 largest MSAs) also had a decline in workers
per household from 1.235 to 1.188. We looked at the employment number
compared to the employment data coming from the Department of Labor. We
found that the number of workers (326,775) was somewhat less than the NMDOL
estimate of Nonagricultural Employment (354,883). The NonAg number does not
count agricultural or self-employment both of which are included in the
number of workers (employed residents). In 1990, the number of workers
reported by the Census exceeded the estimate of NonAg employment. We are
thinking that there may be a major increase in persons working two jobs. If
this is more widespread than Albuquerque it could have considerable
consequences. To my knowledge there is not data collected on workers
working multiple wage jobs.
A question for Chuck Purvis: Did you control for the change in household
size when you compared the workers to households ratios for 1990 and 2000.
Dave Abrams
Middle Rio Grande Council of Governments
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