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Mostly summarized from Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Economics, 5th Ed. PART 9 The Real Economy in the Long Run Chapter 28 of 36 Unemployment Section 3 of 21 ... Figure 1 - The breakdown of the population in 2007 The Bureau of Labor Statistics divides the adult population into three categories: employed, unemployed, unemployed and not in the labor force. … Measuring unemployment is done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), part of the Department of Labor. Every month the BLS generates data on unemployment and other labor market aspects including employment types, average workweek length, and unemployment duration. These BLS data are from the Current Population Survey, a regular survey of about 60,000 households. ... Based on the answers to survey questions the BLS puts each person age 16 and older of each surveyed household into three categories -1- Employed This category includes · those who worked as paid employees, in their own business, as unpaid workers in a family business ·...