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Unemployment Rate: Measuring the Workforce

Unemployment Rate: Measuring the Workforce
Updated November 5, 2012

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Learn about how the unemployment rate is measured, broader measures of unemployment, and three types of unemployment: structural, cyclical, and frictional.

Learn more about the economy and the Fed by visiting these FRBSF resources:

• Speeches by John C. Williams, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Economics in Person video series
• FRBSF economists state their views on the current economy
• Short papers by FRBSF economists
• A guided overview of the roles and responsibilities of the Fed
• A web page devoted to the recent financial crisis and what the Fed did to respond