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, 1961U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 399 pages Examines unemployment statistics for adequacy of measurement and analyzes their structure and economic interpretation. |
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Page 19 - Professional, Technical, and Kindred Workers Farmers and Farm Managers Managers, Officials, and Proprietors except Farm Clerical and Kindred Workers Sales Workers...
Page 15 - ... and the size of the total upon which the percentage is based. Estimated percentages are relatively more reliable than the corresponding absolute estimates of the numerator of the percentage, particularly if the percentage is large ( 50 percent or greater ) . Sums of distribution.
Page 12 - 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 77 - ... 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 229 - Also included are persons who had new jobs to which they were scheduled to report within 30 days.
Page 271 - For all those people who were not reported as working and are not reported as totally unable to work, the enumerator then asks for each one individually did he do any work at all last week, not counting work around the house.
Page 13 - 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 26 - Laborers, except farm and mine Occupation not reported Female, employed, lli years old and over Professional, technical, and kindred workers Farmers and farm managers Managers, officials, and proprietors, except farm Clerical and kindred workers...
Page 15 - ... 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 15 - The estimating procedure used in this survey involved the inflation of the weighted sample results to independent estimates of the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States by age, race, and sex.