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How the Unemployment Rate Is Counted
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The unemployment rate counts jobless people available for work who actively searched in the past four weeks.
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A worker on temporary layoff counts as unemployed without searching, while one who stopped searching after months of rejection drops out of the labor force.
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A reported rate is narrower than "everyone without a job"; search and layoff rules decide who counts.