Unofficial unemployment estimates - a comment
Tait, Elizabeth (1983) Unofficial unemployment estimates - a comment. Quarterly Economic Commentary, 9 (1). pp. 40-41. ISSN 0306-7866
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Abstract
By any criterion - social, economic or political - The Department of Employment's statistics of unemployment are among the most important to be published. The monthly statistics in particular represent the primary source of current information on unemployment and, as such, command considerable media attention. Increasingly, however, each month's figures have met with growing scepticism about their ability to reflect the true level of joblessness in the economy. As a result, alternative unofficial estimates of unemployment, from the modest to the extreme, have proliferated. The purpose here is to explore the factors which have led to such divergent estimates for unemployment.
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Item type: Article ID code: 51499 Dates: DateEventAugust 1983PublishedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor
Social Sciences > StatisticsDepartment: Strathclyde Business School > Fraser of Allander Institute Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 09 Feb 2015 16:30 Last modified: 23 Sep 2024 00:38 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/51499