The number of unemployed people decreased by 105 thousand to 5.79 million while employment rose by 45 thousand to 158.76 million. The unemployment rate has been either 3.5 percent or 3.6 percent for the past 6 months. Meantime, the labor force participation rate was unchanged at 63.4 percent. (Alan Diaz/AP) By Matt O'Brien May 3 The headlines write themselves: The unemployment rate has just fallen to an almost 50-year low of 3.6 percent, the economy has now added jobs for a record 103 straight months, and while wage gains are still slightly muted at only 3.2 percent over the past year, the largest of them are at least going The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent for the third straight month in December 2017. The rate was down by 0.6 percentage point from the December 2016 rate of 4.7 percent. BLS publishes six alternative measures of labor underutilization, known as U-1 through U-6, each month. The U-6 rate was 8.1 percent in December 2017. Current U-6 Unemployment Rate: For February 2020 the official Current Unadjusted U-6 unemployment rate was 7.4% down from 7.7% in January. Unemployment rates are typically up in January. The official unemployment rate is defined as "total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force," but doesn't include a number of employment situations in which workers may find themselves. Both the unemployment rate, at 3.5 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, at 5.8 million, changed little in February. The unemployment rate has been either 3.5 percent or 3.6 percent for the past
18 Oct 2018 The unemployment rate fell to 5 per cent from 5.3 per cent in to 65.4 per cent from 65.7 per cent and the headline rate fell from 5.3 per cent. The Reserve Bank's official forecasts see the unemployment rate at 5.5 per cent
31 May 2019 Unemployment rate at a 45-year-high, government defends data (Photo: PTI/File) Releasing the data, officials said that they have used a new design The withholding of the jobs report had made headlines in January this 17 Jun 2010 The key points are that, compared to the way the headline unemployment rate (U -3) was officially calculated back when it hit its post-WWII high 15 May 2019 Employment opportunities at Statistics South Africa are advertised on Stats SA's official website, in Sunday newspapers and in the circular of 10 Nov 2015 The official unemployment rate in the United States is 5%, which is below the post-war average of 5.8%. The S&P 500 is sitting pretty, just 2% 23 Jan 2019 Headline labour market data – employment rate, unemployment rate, and economic inactivity rate. Note: charts show seasonally adjusted data. 18 Oct 2018 The unemployment rate fell to 5 per cent from 5.3 per cent in to 65.4 per cent from 65.7 per cent and the headline rate fell from 5.3 per cent. The Reserve Bank's official forecasts see the unemployment rate at 5.5 per cent 6 Aug 2018 Looking at Malaysia, although headline unemployment is around 3.4% in 2017, the youth unemployment rate is over three times higher at
(Alan Diaz/AP) By Matt O'Brien May 3 The headlines write themselves: The unemployment rate has just fallen to an almost 50-year low of 3.6 percent, the economy has now added jobs for a record 103 straight months, and while wage gains are still slightly muted at only 3.2 percent over the past year, the largest of them are at least going
News Headlines. Iowa's Unemployment Rate at 2.8 Percent in January Iowa's Unemployment Rate Increases to 2.6 Percent, Participation Rate Rises created by the recipient and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. 4 Jun 2019 The headline unemployment rate (called the U-3 metric by the BLS) counts someone as unemployed if they fit three criteria. First, they must be
The real unemployment rate (U-6) is a broader definition of unemployment than the official unemployment rate (U-3). In July 2019, it was 7.0%. The U-3 is the rate most often reported in the media. In the U-3 rate, the Bureau of Labor Statistics only counts people without jobs who are in the labor force.
25 Apr 2019 Table 1: Headline statistics and year-on-year changes. Figure 5: Time series data – annual employment rates. Figure 6: Time series data 24 May 2018 “The headline U.S. unemployment rate captures only those who are actively looking for work. For example, it ignores people who are out of the
At the Welsh level the LFS based headline unemployment estimates are best For example the official unemployment estimates in July 2010 will cover the
The official unemployment rate is known as U-3. It defines unemployed people as those who are willing and available to work, and who have actively sought work within the past four weeks. Unemployment Rate Unemployment rate is the percentage of labor force that is currently unemployed but was available for job in last four weeks and was actively seeking employment in that period. It is the ratio of the number of unemployed people to the sum of the number of employed and unemployed people.