Employment-unemployment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Priorities and Economy in Government of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Parts 9-13

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Page 2056 - Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.
Page 2418 - Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Page 2451 - ... by less than the standard error. The chances are about 95 out of 100 that the difference would be less than twice the standard error. The...
Page 1718 - ... incoming" groups. Occupation, industry, and class of worker for the employed apply to the job held in the survey week. Persons with two or more jobs are classified in the job at which they worked the greatest number of hours during the survey week. The unemployed are classified according to their latest full-time civilian job lasting 2 weeks or more. The occupation and industry groups used...
Page 2231 - To be classified in the household survey as unemployed an individual must: (1) Have been without a job during the survey week; (2) have made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the prior 4 weeks; and (3) be presently available for work.. In addition, persons on layoff and those waiting to begin a new job (within 30 days), neither of whom must meet the jobseeking requirements, are also classified as unemployed.
Page 2011 - The President, through the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, is authorized and directed to develop programs and to issue regulations and orders for the improved gathering, compiling, analyzing, publishing, and disseminating of statistical information for any purpose by the various agencies in the executive branch of the Government. Such regulations and orders shall be adhered to by such agencies (31 USC 18b).
Page 2383 - Factory overtime edged down 0.1 hour to 4.5 hours. (See table B-2.) The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 0.6 percent to 147.3 (1982=100), seasonally adjusted.
Page 2353 - ... the chances are about 95 out of 100 that the difference would be less than twice the standard error. The figures...
Page 1567 - This release presents and analyzes statistic* from two mijor surveys. Data on labor force, total employment , and unemployment are derived from the sample survey of households conducted and tabulated by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Statistics on...
Page 2011 - Carter of Federal statistical policy functions from the Office of Management and Budget to the US Department of Commerce effective October 9.