# Workers in Alternative Arrangements

# Overview

• Data is sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• Alternative employment is defined as those who work via contract, on-call, or through some kind of agency (such as those which connect temporary employees with employers).
• Despite the massive potential for decentralization afforded by modern means of connectivity, overall the rate of alternative employment has remained mostly unchanged since 1995.
• Remote workers who file Form W-2 tax instead of Form 1099 are not considered independent contractors.
• BLS has not released information for this statistic since 2005.
• Alternative workers have decreased as a portion of the whole since 2005.

# Keywords

format, for, opacity, time-offset, color, style

# Graphics

# Percent of Total Employed

# Combined Percent of Total Employed

# Syntax Features

• for loop to add lagged series.

list offsets = 0 year, 12 year, 18 year, 20 year, 22 year

for offset in offsets

 [series]
   time-offset = @{offset}

endfor

• time-offset to track each series at five independent points in time.

[series]
 time-offset = 12 year

• format setting to include % sign in values and axes.

format = percent

• column-stack mode in Time Chart.

[widget]
  type = chart
  mode = column-stack