employment figures
Workforce participation data
Employment figures are statistics measuring jobs and joblessness in an economy—unemployment rates, payroll numbers, labor force participation.
Governments release them periodically, and markets watch closely: The latest employment figures exceeded expectations.
The term often appears in news about economic health: Employment figures suggest a cooling labor market.
- monthly reportRecurring written status summary
- job marketEmployment availability collectively
- labor forceEmployed and job-seeking population
- gig economyWork based on temporary contracts
- hiring freezeSuspension of new employment
payroll data · wage growth · layoffs · pink slip · poverty rate · consumer spending · inflation rate · labor laws · job growth
- development statisticsdemographic data, birth rate, poverty rates, death rate, literacy rate
- economic dataGDP, CPI, PPI, inflation rates, inflation rate
- national statisticspopulation, demographics, population data, demographic data, birth rates
- regional statisticspopulation data, demographic trends, birth rates, death rates, economic indicators
- African statisticspopulation data, birth rates, death rates, fertility rates, mortality rates
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
labor market metrics
employment figuresunemployment figures
Data on people without work
unemployment statistics · unemployment rate · jobless rate · jobless claims
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