Disability and occupational projections, Monthly Labor Review Online, October 2010

Disability and occupational projections

Table 17. Part-time, home-based, and computer-using jobs, 2008 and 2018(1) (projected)
[Numbers in thousands]
Type of job	Total employment		Change, 2008-18	Growth rate (percent)	Percent of overall job growth
Type of job	2008	2018	Change, 2008-18	Growth rate (percent)	Percent of overall job growth
Overall	150,932	166,206	15,274	10.1	100

Part-time job	33,996	37,590	3,595	10.6	23.5

Usually work at home	5,880	6,512	632	10.7	4.1

Use computer at work
Low or no importance	10,908	12,131	1,223	11.2	8.0
Some importance, low level	32,242	35,309	3,068	9.5	20.1
Some importance, high level	177	159	−18	−9.9	−0.1
Important, low level	23,674	25,103	1,429	6.0	9.4
Important, high level	83,931	93,502	9,572	11.4	62.7
Footnotes: (1) Projections assume that the percentage of part-time, home-based, and computer-using jobs stays constant within each occupation.

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