How does the BLS determine underemployment?

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Yonas Yohannes
Mar 13, 2016

It does not see explanation form BLS FAQ...

Explanation:

Is there a measure of underemployment?

Because of the difficulty of developing an objective set of criteria which could be readily used in a monthly household survey, no official government statistics are available on the total number of persons who might be viewed as underemployed. Even if many or most could be identified, it would still be difficult to quantify the loss to the economy of such underemployment.

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