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From: sears@tove.umd.edu (Andrew Sears)
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Subject: Re: U.S. Far Behind In Health Care, Education : Panel Finds
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Date: 5 May 89 21:10:22 GMT
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In article <784@aoa.UUCP> carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) writes:
>In article <1303@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>Maybe you oughtta take a look at the definition of unemployment. Those who
>have given up registering @ the unemployment office are no longer counted.
>"disclaimer? I'm not a doctor, but I do have a Master's Degree in Science!"

I think you may have the wrong definition too.  As far as I've heard, from
Economics classes and text books, this is not the case.  There is supposed to 
be some government agency that actually calls people to gather this information.
They ask questions like a) Are you currently working?  If you answer no to the 
first question (actually they ask about working at least X hours a week), then
they ask you b) Have you looked for work in the last N weeks?  If you answer
no to the first, and yes to the second then you are unemployed (and trying to
work).  If you answer no to the first and no to the second, then you are considered
a 'discouraged' worker, or something like that.  They are supposed to do this every
so often with a 'representative' sample, and extrapolate to the actual numbers.

Andy

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Andrew Sears                            sears@tove.umd.edu
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory   {...}!mimsy!tove.umd.edu!sears
University of Maryland, College Park, MD  20742