Why Participate - Covid

WHY YOUR
PARTICIPATION
IS IMPORTANT

Your experiences matter!
In early 2021, we invited you to participate in a brief
online survey about how the COVID-19 pandemic has
affected everyday Americans.
Your participation has played a role in helping
researchers understand the pandemic’s impact on
employment, telework, and remote schooling.
Please contact us with any questions or comments:
Call: 877-504-1086
Text with your full name to: 312-835-1905
Email: [email protected]
Visit: www.bls.gov/respondents/nls/

Women were

The

more likely
to telework

than men.

COVID-19 survey
findings
Percentage of

schooling type for

individuals with children
enrolled in K–12:

Women

Some Telework
51%
43%
Full Telework

Men

36%

Only remote
schooling

30%

Only in-person
schooling

31%

21%

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contributions!
25%

Full telework

54

%

0
Hybrid
schooling

30%

Did not telework

Individuals whose jobs
prior to the pandemic were
conducive to telework were

more likely to be
working the week before
the COVID-19 survey
interview.

Percent of

Percent by
schooling
type

100

telework

by individuals
who reported
working.

Alison Aughinbaugh, Jeffrey A. Groen, Mark
A. Loewenstein, Donna S. Rothstein, and
Hugette Sun, “Employment, telework, and
child remote schooling from February to May
2021: evidence from the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth 1997,” Monthly Labor Review,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 2023,
https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2023.5