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To Calculate the Unemployment Rate, Which of the Following Are

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To calculate the unemployment rate, which of the following are necessary pieces of information?
I. The number of unemployed persons
II. The population
III. The number of people in the labour force
IV. The working- age population


Definitions:

Disposable Income

Income remaining after deduction of taxes and social security charges, available to be spent or saved as one wishes.

APC

Average Propensity to Consume, which measures the fraction of income that households spend on consumption rather than saving.

MPS

Stands for Marginal Propensity to Save, which is the ratio of the change in savings to the change in disposable income. It indicates how much of an additional income unit is saved rather than spent.

Capacity Utilization Rate

The percentage of an industry or economy's total potential output that is actually being realized at a given time.

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