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Details Title: Unemployment Rate Description: Vocabulary Total Flash Cards: 9 Created: 04/10/2005 22:54:15	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Current Population Survey Definition Unemployment rates in the U.S. are estimated using Term Bureau of Labor Statistics Definition the name of the agency in charge of the employment numbers Term Ultimate Sampling Units Definition consists of 4 housing units each. Term half-sample method Definition So in stead of getting 2 samples, the Bureau splits the survey into 2 independent pieces that have the same chance behavior. Then takes the difference of the estimates and this serves as the SE. The pooled estimate of the two ( average of the two ) is taken as the estimate of the characteristic to be estimated Term Primary Sampling Units Definition consists either of a city, or a country, or a group of contiguous counties. Term unemployment rate Definition is the percentage of the civilian labor force which is unemployed. Term cluster samples Definition are less informative than simple random samples of the same size. Term edited Definition checked for incomplete or inconsistent entries. Term bias Definition operates more or less evenly across the sample, it cannot be detected just by looking at data.