April 6, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Employer-provided life insurance benefits, 2011

Employer-provided life insurance benefits: access, participation and take-up rates, by full- and part-time status, private industry workers, March 2011
Characteristic	Access rate	Participation rate	Take-up rate
All private industry workers	58	56	97
Full-time workers	73	71	97
Part-time workers	14	13	91

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