People who are not looking — this includes millions of students enrolled in college, plenty of parents who are happy to stay home with young children<br />and millions more retirees — are not counted in the labor force.<br />Thus, a single person working two jobs would be counted once by the household survey<br />(one individual is employed) and twice by the payroll survey (two jobs exist).<br />The “official” unemployment rate, and the one most frequently cited, is the percentage<br />of the adult civilian labor force without a job and actively searching for one.<br />The Labor Department releases its employment report on the first Friday of the following month (or occasionally, the second Friday) at 8:30 a.m.
