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Persons 16 years and over who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.
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The unemployment rate represents the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force.
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Data refer to wage and salary workers who report they are members of a labor union or an employee association similar to a union.
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Unit labor costs are calculated by dividing total labor compensation by real output or, equivalently, by dividing hourly compensation by productivity.
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Unit value indexes are calculated by dividing the total value of goods in a commodity area by the total quantity of goods in that commodity area.
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Persons who work in a family business or farm without pay for 15 hours a week or more.
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First, the respondent is asked the number of hours (s)he usually works per week. This provides a measure of the usual full-time/part-time status of employed persons. All employed persons, both those who were at work and those who were absent from work, are asked about the number of hours they usually work.
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Data represent wage and salary earnings before taxes and other deductions, and include any overtime pay, commissions, or tips usually received (at the main job, in the case of multiple jobholders). Earnings reported on a basis other than weekly (for example, annual, monthly, hourly) are converted to weekly. The term "usual" is as perceived by the respondent. If the respondent asks for a definition of usual, interviewers are instructed to define the term as more than half the weeks worked during the past 4 or 5 months. Data refer to wage and salary workers only, excluding all self-employed persons regardless of whether their businesses were incorporated and all unpaid family workers.
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