The Labour Force Is The

question 26

Multiple Choice

The labour force is the:

• A) number of people employed plus those unemployed
• B) ratio of the population to those not in the labour force
• C) number of people employed minus the unemployed
• D) ratio of those employed to those unemployed

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Definitions:

Face Validity

The extent to which a test or measure appears to be valid on the surface, based on subjective judgment.

Concurrent Validity

The degree to which the results of a particular test correlate with those of a previously established test or measure, assessed at the same time.

Discriminant Validity

The extent to which a measure does not correlate with other variables from which it is theoretically supposed to differ.

Interval Scale

A scale of measurement in which the intervals between numbers on the scale are all equal in size.