Comment on More than a fifth of UK adults not looking for work
Wanderer@lemm.ee 6 months agoI guess that’s why unemployed is a more often cited number than this one. But surely it is interesting non the less to know how much of the workforce isn’t looking for work?
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
The issue is it doesn’t differentiate between people who are not working because they’re 95 years old and people who are not working because they are sick.
If you’re trying to make policy decisions based on this data it’s literally useless. Maybe you have a very old population maybe you will have a very unwell population. Who knows.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I don’t understand. The amount of people not in work I guess is used to look about how taxes relate overall population to workers. That’s important.
But like what you are saying that why unemployment figures are used and not number of people in work. Not of people not in work is more of a newspaper headline than anything governments look at.