{"id":1206614,"name":"Labor Force Participation Rate in the US of men 65 and older","unit":"%","description":"Percentage of men aged 65 and older who are economically active.","createdAt":"2026-03-06T11:06:09.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-03-06T11:06:09.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"1850-2015","datasetId":7469,"shortUnit":"%","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"labor_force_participation_rate_in_the_us_of_men_65_and_older","catalogPath":"grapher/labor/2017-04-22/labor_force_participation_rates_of_men_age_65_and_over_in_the_us__owid_based_on_short__2002__and_oecd/labor_force_participation_rates_of_men_age_65_and_over_in_the_us__owid_based_on_short__2002__and_oecd#labor_force_participation_rate_in_the_us_of_men_65_and_older","type":"float","datasetName":"Labor Force Participation Rates of Men Age 65 and Over in the US – OWID based on Short (2002) and OECD","datasetVersion":"2017-04-22","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"unit":"%","shortUnit":"%","numDecimalPlaces":1},"schemaVersion":1,"presentation":{},"source":{"id":31176,"name":"Our World In Data based on Short (2002) and OECD (2017)","dataPublishedBy":"Our World In Data","dataPublisherSource":"","link":"","retrievedDate":"2017-04-22","additionalInfo":"The source for the period 1880 to 1990 is Short, Joanna (2002) – “Economic History of Retirement in the United States”. EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. September 30, 2002. URL http://eh.net/encyclopedia/economic-history-of-retirement-in-the-united-states/\n\nThis data is based on these three sources:\n– Moen, Jon R. Essays on the Labor Force and Labor Force Participation Rates: The United States from 1860 through 1950. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1987.\n– Costa, Dora L. The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.\n– Bureau of Labor Statistics\n\nData for 2000 to 2015 is from the OECD [OECD.stat web browser – Source: http://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?datasetcode=LFS_SEXAGE_I_R&lang=en Labor force participation of men 65 and older from the OECD – http://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?datasetcode=LFS_SEXAGE_I_R&lang=en]\"\n\nData for 2000 is available from both sources and the discrepancy is minor so that we decided to merge the data as presented in the sources. Short reports 17.5% while the OECD reports 17.73% for 2000."},"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":1850},{"id":1860},{"id":1880},{"id":1890},{"id":1900},{"id":1910},{"id":1920},{"id":1930},{"id":1940},{"id":1950},{"id":1960},{"id":1970},{"id":1980},{"id":1990},{"id":2000},{"id":2001},{"id":2002},{"id":2003},{"id":2004},{"id":2005},{"id":2006},{"id":2007},{"id":2008},{"id":2009},{"id":2010},{"id":2011},{"id":2012},{"id":2013},{"id":2014},{"id":2015}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":13,"name":"United States","code":"USA"}]}},"origins":[]}