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Ooh also US metric-collecting is funky. For example if someone doesn't have a job, but haven't applied to one in 4 weeks, they are NOT unemployed.
I feel like that makes a little bit of sense.. if you don't want to be employed, should you be counted in an unemployment statistic? It effectively turns the statistic into a representation of people looking for, but unable to find, employment.
For example, if there is a household where one person is the bread-winner and the other is a stay at home parent, should the stay at home parent be counted as unemployed if they're not planning on being employed?
Another example is a day-labourer who works for cash. Even if they are reporting and paying taxes, they're not really "employed" in the classic sense, but definitely not "unemployed" if they are working every day.