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Assume the following data for a country: Total population Category Population under 16 years of age or institutionalized Not in labor force Unemployed Part-time workers looking for full-time jobs Number of People (Millions) 500 120 100 28 10 What is the size of the labor force? million What is the official unemployment rate? %

          Assume the following data for a country:

Total population
Category
Population under 16 years of age or institutionalized
Not in labor force
Unemployed
Part-time workers looking for full-time jobs
Number of People
(Millions)
500
120
100
28
10
What is the size of the labor force?  million
What is the official unemployment rate?  %
        
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Assume the following data for a country:

Total population
Category
Population under 16 years of age or institutionalized
Not in labor force
Unemployed
Part-time workers looking for full-time jobs
Number of People
(Millions)
500
120
100
28
10
What is the size of the labor force?  million
What is the official unemployment rate?  %

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Assume the following data for a country: able[[Category, able[[Number of People],[(Millions)]]],[Total population,500],[Population under 16 years of age or institutionalized,120],[Not in labor force,100],[Unemployed,28],[Part-time workers looking for full-time jobs,10]] What is the size of the labor force? million What is the official unemployment rate? %
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00:01 Hello and welcome.
00:02 So the total number of people in the labor force is pretty much the total number of people in the society except for those who are a not in the labor force that is a hundred and let me check not in the labor force is a hundred and and then people who are under 16 years of age or institutionalized which is 120 so that is essentially going to be 500 million that's the total number of people minus 120 plus 100.
00:35 So 500 minus 220 is equal to 280 million of course.
00:43 So that is the total number of people who are in the labor force.
00:47 And the second part is about calculating the unemployment rate, i believe.
00:52 Yes.
00:53 Okay.
00:53 To get the unemployment rate, it's actually a pretty simple calculation.
00:57 It's just the number of unemployed people over the labor force times 100.
01:01 So how many people are unemployed here.
01:04 Let's see...
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