An Estimate of the Number of Unemployed Workers in the Economy

question 25

Multiple Choice

An estimate of the number of unemployed workers in the economy can be obtained from:

• A) both the household and establishment surveys.
• B) from the household survey, but not from the establishment survey.
• C) from the establishment survey, but not from the household survey.
• D) from neither the household nor the establishment surveys.

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Definitions:

Standard Errors

Measures of the variability or spread of a sample statistic distribution if the experiment were to be repeated many times.

Control Limits

The boundaries in statistical process control that indicate the acceptable range of process variation.

Sample Mean

The average of a sample set of numbers, calculated as the sum of all the observed values divided by the number of observations.

Trend

The prevailing trend or the way in which something is evolving or transforming with the passage of time.