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| This page offers links to a few activities dealing with measuring unemployment in Australia. These involve a short flash demonstration of how the participation, rate, labour force and employed and unemployed figures are used by the ABS to calculate the unemployment rate. Some notes to jog your memory, a quiz and finally a few On-line Calculations to tests whether or not you actually calculate the unemployment rate, |
Short Notes on Measuring Unemployment
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| These are simply designed as a memory jog. Click here and download the PDF and here to skim online. |
A demo: How it fits together
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| A short Flash demo illustrating how the ideas of population, labour force and employed and unemployed fit together. For the online version click here or for a larger image download the file and click here. |
Key Formulas
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| Key formula's used when calculating the unemployment and participation rates |
Calculating the unemployment and participation rates
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| Two online calculators. Click here to calculate the unemployment rate and here to claculate the participation rate. |
A quiz on measuring Unemployment
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| A short quiz to revise what you have covered. |
