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umcha180@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Shuk Ping Chang) writes:

>I am doing a survey on employment trend of recent graduates.

>I need to know how does the employment rate carry out. To be more specific
>I need to know if someone leave the country, does one count as unemploy ?
>If someone is not doing his/her field related job, does he/she count as
>employ or unemploy.

>Is there any article about the above topic ? I do not seem to to able to
>find any related meterial in the Library.

You do not say which employment rate you are interested in, or even
which country you are investigating.  In the United States the
official government unemployment numbers are derived from a monthly
multi-stage national sample survey called the Current Population
Survey (CPS).  The CPS asks questions like "how many hours did you
work last week" and "did you look for a job last week."  (I probably
do not have the wording correct here.)  A person is counted as
unemployed if

(a) they do not have a job, and
(b) they are looking for work.

If they are neither working nor looking for a job then they are
counted as "out of the labor force" and do not appear in either the
numerator or denominator of the unemployment rate calculation.

A person who is out of the country is not surveyed, hence, not counted
as employed or unemployed.  I do not believe that nationality is a
factor in calculating the rate.

For further information contact the U.S. Bureau of the Census in
Washington, D.C.  (They are not on the internet, so don't ask for an
e-mail address.)
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