{"id": 1682, "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": "2017-04-22T05:58:57.000Z", "updatedAt": "2023-07-07T14:06:49.000Z", "coverage": "USA", "timespan": "1880-2015", "datasetId": 425, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "dataPath": "https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1682.data.json", "metadataPath": "https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1682.metadata.json", "datasetName": "Labor Force Participation Rates of Men Age 65 and Over in the US \u2013 OWID based on Short (2002) and OECD", "type": "float", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "%", "includeInTable": true, "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "source": {"id": 547, "name": "Our World In Data based on Short (2002) and OECD (2017)", "dataPublishedBy": "Our World In Data", "dataPublisherSource": "The data sources used are Short (2002) and the OECD", "link": "", "retrievedDate": "2017-April-22", "additionalInfo": "The source for the period 1880 to 1990 is Short, Joanna (2002) \u2013 \u201cEconomic History of Retirement in the United States\u201d. 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\u2013 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\u2013 Costa, Dora L. The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.\n\u2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics \n\nData for 2000 to 2015 is from the OECD [OECD.stat web browser \u2013 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 \u2013 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"}]}}}