ChatGPT-built census chart shows US private household workers fell from 5.44% to 0.66% of labor force
binarybits · x · 2026-11-04
Commentator binarybits shared a chart he had ChatGPT build to rebut the claim that people employ more domestic servants than in the past.
The underlying table, US private household employment 1900–2000 (Census/CPS data), shows household workers as a share of the labor force steadily declining from 5.44% in 1900 to 0.66% in 2000, with absolute counts falling from 1.58M to 894K while the total labor force grew dramatically. He notes his chart's data mostly comes from this table in a book chapter.
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