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using the data below calculate

4. the labour force participation rate

5. the official employment rate

 

 

currently working 23,000 volunteer workers
9845(ages 13-14) looking for work 12,000 (ages 15)looking for work
45,600 Part-time workers 56 family workers who worked 15 hrs a week
234 self-employed 6543 discouraged workers
67,432(ages 23-25)looking for work 67,890 laid off receptionists looking for work
544,321(ages 16-20) looking for work) current population is 6,000,000
5654 Temp workers 5000 armed forces
543 recent university graduatesthat are going back to graduate school 3500 institutionalized
 
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