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Unemployment Rate: How It's Calculated

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A family audit has students interview three to five relatives and sort each into employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force using the three BLS tests, then compare the household rate to 4.1 percent. One question classifies an engineer who stopped applying after six months.

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