Employment and Unemployment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Statistics of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, Pursuant to Sec. 5(a) of Public Law 304, 79th Congress. December 18, 19, 20, 1961Examines unemployment statistics for adequacy of measurement and analyzes their structure and economic interpretation. |
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Page 25 - The reliability of an estimated percentage, computed by using sample data for both numerator and denominator, depends upon both the size of the percentage and the size of the total upon which the percentage is based. Estimated percentages are relatively more reliable than the corresponding estimates of the numerators of the percentages, particularly if the percentages are 50 percent or more.
Page 22 - Employed persons comprise those, who, during the survey week, were either (a) "at work" — those who did any work for pay or profit, or worked without pay for 15 hours or more on a family farm or business; or (b) "with a job but not at work...
Page 64 - I960 monthly survey of the labor force, conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Bureau of the Census through Its Current Population Survey.
Page 95 - ... conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment for those able. willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.
Page 23 - Unpaid family workers are persons working without pay for 15 hours a week or more on a farm or in a business operated by a member of the household to whom they are related by blood or marriage. Hours of work statistics relate to the actual number of hours worked during the survey week.
Page 296 - ... without a job and currently available for work who had made arrangements to start a new job at a date subsequent to the specified period ; (d> persons on temporary or indefinite lay-off without pay. (2) The following categories of persons are not considered to be unemployed: (a) persons intending to establish their own business or farm, but who had not yet arranged to do so, who were not seeking work for pay or profit; (b) former unpaid family workers not at work and not seeking work for pay...
Page 25 - ... any systematic biases in the data. The chances are about 68 out of 100 that an estimate from the sample would differ from a complete census figure by less than the standard error.
Page 29 - Sales workers Craftsmen, foremen, and kindred workers Operatives and kindred workers Service workers, except private household Farm laborers and foremen Laborers, except farm and mine Female employed civilians!
Page 275 - President, with the addition of new staff functions, such as the Bureau of the Budget, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the National Security Council, directly within that office.
Page 295 - With a job but not at work: persons who, having already worked in their present job, were temporarily absent during the specified period because of illness or injury, industrial dispute, vacation or other leave of absence, absence without leave, or temporary disorganization of work due to such reasons as bad weather or mechanical breakdown. 2. Employers and workers on own account should be included among the employed and may be classified as 'at work' or 'not at work' on the same basis as other employed...