[entropy12]

What are the chances you will be called?
Unless you are actively registered with some gov’t agency as a job seeker, no one in the gov’t knows you are unemp-loyed nut looking.

Why do you think those unemployment numbers get significantly revised after a month lapses? Because they were severly extrapolated and are never accurate.

Just count how many are paying social security tax. Every single soul who has a job or self employed pays that tax. Everyone else is unemployed. Why do they have to be actively looking to be counted? Because it makes a rosier picture than it is.

[1rudeboy]

Let's back up a minute. Your statement, that "[t]hey count only those receiving unemployment and those actively seeking jobs by registering with state agencies," is incorrect.

It's fruitless to discuss how the number is inaccurate until you acknowledge it.