Published: February 18, 2019
If those 14,500 people weren’t counted the unemployment rate would rise – but it would be a distorted picture of the labour force
One of the common complaints about the employment statistics is that employment is counted as being just one hour of paid work in a week. It is often used to discredit the figures and to suggest the current unemployment rate is hiding unemployment more than in the past. To counter these criticisms, the Bureau of Statistics last week released a short paper on the issue that shows few people actually work such a small number of hours and that excluding them would not give us an improved picture of the economy.
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