labor force

(noun)

The collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).

Related Terms

Examples of labor force in the following topics:

  • Measuring Unemployment

    • Labor force surveys are the most preferred method of measuring unemployment due to their comprehensive results and categories such as race and gender.
    • It is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force.
    • This corrects for the normal increase in the number of people employed due to increases in population and increases in the labor force relative to the population.
    • The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures employment and unemployment (of those over 15 years of age) using two different labor force surveys conducted by the United States Census Bureau (within the United States Department of Commerce) and/or the Bureau of Labor Statistics (within the United States Department of Labor).
    • U2: Percentage of labor force who lost jobs or completed temporary work.

  • Homework

    • (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.
    • Dept. of Labor)
    • Below are the percents of the U.S. labor force (excluding self-employed and unemployed ) that are members of a union.
    • (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.
    • Dept. of Labor)

  • References

    • ., & the Task Force on Statistical Inference, APA Board of Scientific Affairs. (1999).

  • Introduction

    • The amount you pay a repair person for labor is often determined by an initial amount plus an hourly fee.

  • An Intuitive Approach to Relationships

    • The amount you pay a repair person for labor is often determined by an initial amount plus an hourly fee.

  • Ecological Fallacy

    • For instance, as a governor, it is correct to make inferences about the effect the size of a police force would have on the crime rate at the state level, if one is interested in the policy implication of a rise in police force.
    • However, an ecological fallacy would happen if a city council deduces the impact of an increase in the police force on the crime rate at the city level from the correlation at the state level.

  • The Sum of Draws

    • Your sum of draws is, therefore, subject to a force known as chance variation.

  • Tests of Significance

    • Beginning circa 1925, Sir Ronald Fisher—an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist (shown in )—standardized the interpretation of statistical significance, and was the main driving force behind the popularity of tests of significance in empirical research, especially in the social and behavioral sciences.
    • Sir Ronald Fisher was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist who standardized the interpretation of statistical significance (starting around 1925), and was the main driving force behind the popularity of tests of significance in empirical research, especially in the social and behavioral sciences.

  • Outliers

    • By providing information about price changes in the Nation's economy to government, business, and labor, the CPI helps them to make economic decisions.
    • If you are interested in seeing more years of data, visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI website ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt ; our data is taken from the column entitled "Annual Avg. " (third column from the right).

  • t-Test for Two Samples: Independent and Overlapping

    • If, for any reason, one is forced to use haphazard rather than probability sampling, then every effort must be made to minimize selection bias.