How are the labor force components (i.e., civilian labor force, employed, unemployed, and unemployment rate) defined?
The official concepts and definitions, as used in the Current Population Survey, follow. For a complete description, see Definitions of Labor Force Concepts (PDF 102K). • Civilian labor force. Included are all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population classified as either employed or unemployed. (See the definitions below). • Employed persons. These are all persons who, during the reference week (the week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management dispute job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each employed per
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- How are the labor force components (i.e., civilian non-institutional population, civilian labor force, employed, unemployed, and unemployment rate) defined?
- How are the labor force components (i.e., civilian noninstitutional population, civilian labor force, employed, unemployed, and unemployment rate) defined?
- How are the labor force components (i.e., civilian labor force, employed, unemployed, and unemployment rate) defined?
