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| A level of society composed of people with similar social or economic staatus. |
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| Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) |
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| A state-level employment estimate consisting either of a city, or a county, or a group of contiguous counties. |
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| Ultimate Sampling Units (USUs) |
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| A state-level of employment estimates from PSUs divided up into USUs which cosist of 4 housing units each. At the second stage of the study, some of the USUs were picked at random for the sample. In the end, every person age 16 and over living in a selected USU in a selected PSU gets into the Current Population Survey. |
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| people's responses may change as a result of being interviewed, progressively biasing the sample. |
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| those who did any paid work in the previous week, or were temporarily absent from a regular job |
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| those who were not employed the previous week but were available for work and looking for work during the past four weeks |
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| the state of being neither employed not unemployed |
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| consists of the civilians who are either employed or unemployed |
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| the percentage of the civilian labor force which is unemployed (6.8%) |
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| a clustering of people in a sample who have the same or similar characteristics. |
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| statistical process used to find the standard error for cluster samples by splitting the sample into two halves and seeing how well they agree. |
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