Table 15-4 -Refer to Table 15-4

question 225

Multiple Choice

Table 15-4
$\begin{array}{|l|l|}\hline \text { Civilian labor force } & 100 \text { million } \\\hline \text { Persons unemployed } 15 \text { weeks or longer } & 1.6 \text { million } \\\hline \text { Job losers and persons who have completed temporary jobs (excludes job leavers) } & 3.1 \text { million } \\\hline \text { Total unemployed } & 6.2 \text { million } \\\hline \text { Total unemployed plus discouraged workers } & 7.0 \text { million } \\\hline \text { Total unemployed plus all marginally attached workers } & 8.1 \text { million } \\\hline \begin{array}{l}\text { Total unemployed plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part-time for } \\\text { economic reasons }\end{array} & 9.2 \text { million } \\\hline\end{array}$

-Refer to Table 15-4. What is the U-5 measure of labor underutilization?

• A)7.5 percent
• B)7.9 percent
• C)8.1 percent
• D)26 percent

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Distance From The Mean

The absolute difference between a specific value and the average of all values in a dataset.

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Standardized scores that indicate how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of the dataset. They are used in statistics to compare different data points.

Normal Curve

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Percentages

A portion or share of a whole, expressed as a fraction of 100.