The labor force participation rate for all youth was 60.0 percent in July, little
changed from a year earlier. (The labor force participation rate is the proportion of
the civilian noninstitutional population that is working or looking and available for
work.) The summer labor force participation rate of youth has held fairly steady since
July 2010, after generally trending downward for many years. The summer youth labor
force participation rate peaked at 77.5 percent in July 1989. (See table 2.)