atw: Hidden unemployment figures
- From: "Steve Hudson" <adslyy5g@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:28:57 +1000
I was recently one of these people that they rang. Here is where it got
interesting. When you read between the lines of their questions, each
question is designed to qualify you out of unemployment (UE). Have you been
sick? (= Medical benefits etc, not UE) Did you look after any family?
(Family carer / dependant, not UI) Did you look for fulltime work inside the
last week? Do you want fulltime work? Etc etc
Now me, I am not listed as unemployed. I have a home business that makes
over 100 a week. That's enough to not be unemployed.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Edward Granat
(Now probably way Off Topic.)
Steve of the Hudson wrote:
>The government does a good job of hiding the true unemployment figures.
>Whether Labour or Liberal, makes little difference. The official
>figures are about 1/2 to 1/3 of the true rate.
Oh too true. They have the real figures (of course) and refuse to release
them.
I was really flabbergasted when I heard on 774 ABC Melbourne (AKA 3LO) some
time ago that the unemployment figures are the result of telephone surveys,
in which Centrelink has a privately owned marketing company call a
supposedly random sample of unemployed people ("Clients"
in Centrelink parlance) on their books (actually the usual suspects who are
happy to answer phone surveys) to ask their opinion of how the employment
situation is going.
In other words, the figures for the past three or more decades have been
total works of fiction.
IMNSHO that's government gone mad.
Cheers,
Michael
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Have a Nice Day!
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