Thursday 4 December 2014

How the Government Measures Unemployment : Current Population Survey method and how the government makes up the data :The CPS is conducted in approximately 60,000 eligible housing units throughout the United States. (“Eligible” refers to an occupied housing unit having at least one person in the civilian noninstitutional population.) This sample includes 10,000 eligible housing units from the monthly supplementary sample to improve state-level estimates of health insurance coverage for low-income children, also known as the CHIP expansion.

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