To gamemaster, you people realy need math lessons !!

I have 10,150,993 Employed .I have 66,990 unemployed .But my unemployment rate 3.13% .I have calculated that my unemployment rate should realy be about .67%

you 'realy' need english lessons!! :P

but he's got a point, something isnt working with the %'s. Unimatrix 01 on KB: From my unemployment index of 3.75 I should have about 2.5m unemployment but my unemployment numbers run between 1.5m-1.6m so even if you take in the fluctuation its not even near to what the numbers really are and the index should be about 2.3

Include housewives and disabled in "potential labour force".

Wouldnt work out either, got 3.8m disabled, counting from the SCC page and if I substract the 'recovered' disabled its still 1.9m so with that 1.5m would be way above the 2.5m for the 3.75 index. And of course housewives are a lot more

I had pointed this out before and the GMs indicated that they use a modified formula that calms down sudden variations, I do not remember the exact formula, but if you really want to know you can shoot them an email.

It's all changes. It is a weighted average.

It is not only the rehabilitated that count, but the total number of housewives and disabled people.

Despite using their methodology, the numbers don't add up.

Today's question as it relates to life in general....do the numbers ever really add up?

have you added in all the people who moved back in with their parents and those who quit looking for work?

I found the formula Andy posted:

The unemployment percentage is calculated as 100 - employed percentage.

employment is calculated as the number of employed, divided by the number of employed + unemployed.

There is a slight deviation when the employment is high and there is a delay in the calculation that may deliver slightly different numbers but prevents big jumps that are unrealistic.
new corporations never hire 200.000 people in a single month so it is smoothed.

And no, the numbers still do not add up.
Example:
Employed = 48,810,806 (49.2 % of total population)
Unemployed = 477,472 (Using formula above = 0.9687%)
No new corps built...
No military size change...
Listed Percentage is 2.43%

A pattern forms:
Example:
Employed = 52,783,832(49.61 % of total population)
Unemployed = 429166 (Using formula above = 0.8065%)
No new corps built...
No military size change...
Listed Percentage is 2.43%