The Two Groups of Labor Force are A. Employed and B. Unemployed.
(a) Employed:
The employed comprise all persons, include family workers, who worked during the time reference established for data on economic characteristics, or who had a in which they were temporarily absent because of illness or industrial dispute, vacation, other leave of absence, absence without save, or temporary disorganization of work due to such reasons as weather or mechanical breakdown.
(b) Unemployed:
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The unemployed consist of all persons who, during the time reference period, were not working but were seeking fork for pay or profit, including those who never worked before.
Also included are persons who were not seeking work because of temporary illness, because they made arrangements to start a new subsequent to the time reference period, or because they were in temporary or indefinite lay-off without pay where employment opportunities are very limited.
The unemployed should also include who were not working but were available for work, though were not actively seeking employment because they believed that no jobs were open to them.
In brief it comprises all people’s engaged in or actively seeking productive work in some branch of tie economy during a specified period of time.
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As several similar terms are used in the study of the labour force, it is necessary to clarify them in greater detail in order to void confusion.
The term “labour force” is equivalent to economically active population,” according to the terminology amended by the United Nations. 3 Similarly, the term “working population” is also equivalent to “economically active population.
“The Multilingual Demographic Dictionary states: “Generally leaking, the working population consists of those individuals who lake part in the production of economic goods and services, including in paid family workers in an economic enterprise as well as persons no work for pay or profit.”
It is evident from the above discussion that the terms “labour tree,” “economically active population” and “working population” are all used synonymously in demographic literature.