Originally posted by KazetNagorra You just called them unemployed when you equated unemployment to (lack of) participation.
wrong. I was equating the people who are long term unemployed who have gave up looking, no longer collect, who have just dropped out. ( thats the lack of participation I am referring too)
If you count all these people who are out of work the true unemployment rate is in the mid teens.
Originally posted by utherpendragon wrong. I was equating the people who are long term unemployed who have gave up looking, no longer collect, who have just dropped out. ( thats the lack of participation I am referring too)
If you count all these people who are out of work the true unemployment rate is in the mid teens.
Sure, there are other ways to define the unemployment rate, and methods vary significantly from country to country. But they are all arbitrary and to suggest that there is One True Way is at best absurd and at worst dishonest.
Originally posted by KazetNagorra A large part of the people in this category are students, housewives and pensioners. I'm sure many of them will object to being tagged "unemployed".
So what? The reason for unemployment is not important, it is the fact that they are unemployed that's important.
Perhaps they could make a category: unemployed but wants to be employed. I think that's the most useful stat.