In the class, you said that "not in the labor force" doesn't include those on active military service, in prison, or in mental hospital. So are they in labor force?
I don't understand the difference between "working-age population" and "non-institutionalized population,could you please explain it?

part-time students is a part of full-time student when classify labor force

Daily wage work are considered employed？ for example, I hand out leaflets aperiodically,

Hi, Lin. Is the unemployment referred to a whole people from this country regardless the position or it is just a in this country regardless who they are from?

In the ppt, about the Minimum Wage Laws, it says "Some workers will be unemployed whowould have been employed if there were no minimum wages. As a result, the unemployment ratewil be higher than it would be without a minimum wage ". I think with no minimum wage, the average price will rise over the past price, which leads to surplurs for employment. Employers will lay off some workers, so the unimployment rate will rise. It seems oppisite to the right point, where am i wrong?

is the CPI a kind of inflation rate? can we use it as inflation rate when caculating?

Hi, Prof. Lin
I still could not understand this statement : "Its initial employment values can besignificantly revised as data from additional establishments become available."
Could you explain it again?

If a disabled man or a man who have mental disease do not go to any organization like sanatorium， they should belong to not available for work or institutionalize？

Did employment-population ratio different from employment rate？

which part does part－time job belong to? why will it under understate theunemployment rate if Involuntarypart-time workers are counted as full-time?

I think labor union is benefit to the unemployment rate, because in our book, it says:" most workers who can't find jobs in unionized industries because the wage is above its market level can find jobs in other industries". That is to say, though the wage is above its market level, the workers can also find jobs. So why not choose the answer as C? I don't know why B is correct.....

You said the base year change doesn't matter. However, the data at class you told us is not true. That should be 0.4%, but the second answer is 0.488% and it should be 0.5%, so the real average doesn't same.