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Illustrate Measuring unemployment

Illustrate Measuring unemployment?

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1. The population is divided into three groups:  those under age 16 or institutionalized, that not in labour force and the labour force that includes those ages 16 and over who are willing and able to work.

2. The unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of the labor force that is not employed.

3. The unemployment rate is calculated by random survey of 60,000 households nationwide.

a. Part-time workers are counted as “employed.”

b. “Discouraged workers” who want a job, but are not actively seeking one, are not counted as being in the labor force, so they are not part of unemployment statistic.

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