017 Question 1 37 in text The employment status employed or
Last updated: 9/6/2023
017 Question 1 37 in text The employment status employed or unemployed of each individual in the U S workforce is a set of data that is of interest to economists businesspeople and sociologists To obtain information about the employment status of the workforce the U S Bureau of the Census conducts what is known as the Current Population Survey Each month interviewers visit about 60 000 of the 128 million households in the United States and question the occupants 15 year of age or older about their employment status Their responses enable the Bureau of the Census to estimate the percentage of people in the labor force who are unemployed the unemployment rate Define the population of interest to the Census Bureau 1 pt a The number of unemployed people in the U S b All U S people 15 years and older c The 128 million households in the U S d All U S people e The Census Bureau