How is unemployment calculated?

Answer 1

In NM, they go back 18 months. They do not count the most recent six months though. Then it's base on a percentage of income for the 12 months that they do count, up to a max of around $250 a week. Something like that.

Answer 2

The total of people over the working period age in the country is devided against the number of people who have no work.

as follows:
The BLS counts employment and unemployment (of those over 16 years of age) using a sample survey of households.[4] In BLS definitions, people are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey week. This includes not only regular full-time year-round employment but also all part-time and temporary work. Workers are also counted as "employed" if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week because they were:

On vacation;
Ill;
Taking care of some other family or personal obligation (for example, due to child-care problems);
On maternity or paternity leave;
Involved in an industrial dispute (strike or lock-out); or
Prevented from working by bad weather.
Medical problems
Typically, employment and the labor force include only work done for economic gain. Hence, a homemaker is neither part of the labor force nor unemployed. Nor are full-time students nor prisoners considered to be part of the labor force or unemployment. The latter can be important. In 1999, economists Lawrence F. Katz and Alan B. Krueger estimated that increased incarceration lowered measured unemployment in the United States by 0.17 %age points between 1985 and the late 1990s. In particular, as of 2005, roughly 0.7% of the US population is incarcerated.

On the other hand, individuals are classified as "unemployed" if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior four weeks, and are currently available for work. The unemployed includes all individuals who were not working for pay but were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been temporarily laid off.

Finally, it is possible to be neither employed nor unemployed by BLS definitions, i.e., to be outside of the "labor force." These are people who have no job and are not looking for one. Many of these are going to school or are retired. Family responsibilities keep others out of the labor force. Still others have a physical or mental disability which prevents them from participating in labor force activities.

Answer 3

The unemployment figures reported by the federal government are based on the number of people filing for unemployment benefits, not on how many people are actually unemployed. So if someone is unemployed but gives up on looking they are not counted.

Answer 4

if you mean the unemployment rate, its based on a weekly phone survey.

they call people and ask them if they are employed.
if you are working, you count as employed.
If you are not working, but looking for work, you count as unemployed.
If you do not meet either of these categories, you are not counted.

Answer 5

Inaccurately

Answer 6

It is based on the previous quarters worked.

Answer 7

With an adding machine.

Answer 8

It's a precentage of your weekly pay check

Answer 9

probably doing averages of the unemployed and employed

Answer 10

don no, but it's not fun.