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Green jobs

Term · Economic statistics · MLC-T-ECS-000831

Jobs in businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources, or jobs in which workers' duties involve making their establishment's production processes more environmentally friendly or use fewer natural resources.

Note: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) developed a definition of green jobs for use in data collection. Since 2011, BLS has not produced data on green jobs. For information on green jobs, see Measuring green jobs.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ECS-000831
FieldEconomic statistics
ReferencesBLS Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-000831",
  "term": "Green jobs",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "Jobs in businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources, or jobs in which workers' duties involve making their establishment's production processes more environmentally friendly or use fewer natural resources.\n\nNote: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) developed a definition of green jobs for use in data collection. Since 2011, BLS has not produced data on green jobs. For information on green jobs, see Measuring green jobs.",
  "references": [
    "BLS Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/green-jobs/"
}

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