11) In the Current Population Survey, a person is considered unemployed if the person
A) is without a job.
B) is working anything less than 40 hours per week.
C) is working without pay.
D) does not have a job and is actively looking for a job.
E) is working less than 20 hours per week.
12) To be considered unemployed, a worker must have had
A) no employment during the week before the survey and be actively looking for a job.
B) part-time employment while actively looking for a full-time job.
C) no employment during the week before the survey and be actively looking for a job while a student.
D) no employment during the day before the survey and be actively looking for a job.
E) Both answers A and B are correct.
13) If Brian, age 24, had no job but was available for work and had looked for a job the week before the survey, Brian is classified in the Current Population Survey as
A) unemployed.
B) employed.
C) a discouraged worker.
D) not in the labor force.
E) not in the working-age population.
14) Rob is considered unemployed in the Current Population Survey if he
A) has looked for a job in the last four weeks but has not found a job.
B) has worked at least 1 hour but not more than 15 hours as a paid employee during the last week.
C) does not have a job and stopped looking for a job at least two months ago.
D) has a part-time job but would like a full-time job.
E) is in his last term of college before he graduates.
15) Phillip is a 22-year old who has no job and is available for work, but has not actively looked for a job in the last month. The Current Population Survey identifies Phillip as ________ , ________ the labor force, and ________ the working-age population.
A) unemployed; part of; part of
B) unemployed; part of; not part of
C) not unemployed; not part of; part of
D) not unemployed; not part of; not part of
E) not unemployed; part of; part of
16) Using the table above, the Current Population Survey classifies the group of individuals who are left after subtracting from the total population groups 1, 2, and 3 as
A) the working-age population.
B) the labor force.
C) employed.
D) unemployed.
E) discouraged workers.
17) Using the table above, the Current Population Survey classifies the group of individuals who are left after subtracting from the total population groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 as
A) not in the labor force.
B) the labor force.
C) employed.
D) unemployed.
E) discouraged workers.
18) Using the table above, the Current Population Survey classifies the group of individuals obtained by adding groups 5 and 6 as
A) the working age population.
B) the labor force.
C) employed.
D) unemployed.
E) discouraged workers.
19) The working-age population consists of all the people in the population
A) aged 16 and over.
B) aged 16 to 65.
C) aged 16 and over who are not in jail, hospital, or an institution or in the U.S. Armed Forces.
D) aged 21 and over who are not in jail, hospital, or an institution or in the U.S. Armed Forces.
E) who are employed plus the unemployed people.
20) If the number of people in the labor force ________, then ________.
A) increases; the labor force participation rate increases
B) increases; the unemployment rate definitely increases
C) decreases; the unemployment rate definitely decreases
D) decreases; the labor force participation rate increases
E) decreases, the unemployment rate does not change
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