Who Would Be Included in the Labour Force

question 150

Multiple Choice

Who would be included in the labour force?

• A) Hank, who is waiting for his new job to start
• B) Ken, who has become discouraged looking for a job and has quit looking for a while
• C) Homer, an unpaid stay-at-home parent
• D) Thomas, a 20-year-old student who does not work and is not looking for work

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Negatively Skewed

A characteristic of a distribution where the tail on the left side of the distribution is longer or fatter than the right side, indicating that the bulk of the values lie to the right side.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, dividing the data into two halves.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a dataset.

Sample Mean

The average value of a sample set of numbers, calculated by adding all the observations and dividing by the number of observations.