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short-term training, vocational secondary school, vocational college, professional
secondary school, college, university and post-graduate (master, doctor, and science
doctorate).
Unemployed population is persons aged 15 years and over, met the following
factors in the reference period: (i) currently not working; (ii) seeking employment;
(iii) ready to work.
Unemployed population also consists of those persons who are currently unemployed
and ready to work but do not seek employment in the reference period, due to some
reasons as follows:
- Have been able to get work or business/productive activities to start after the
reference period;
- Forced to be absent from work (without continuously receiving salary/wage or
uncertainly returning to the former work) because the establishment is shrunk or
stopped;
- During the off season;
- Unexpected/sudden family duties or being sick or temporarily ill.
Unemployment rate: The indicator expressing the rate between the number of
unemployed persons and the labor force.

Number of unemployed persons
Unemployment rate (%) = × 100
Labour force

Underemployed population is employed person who work less than 35 hours,
are willing and ready to work to work additional hours, in the reference week.
In which:
Willing to work additional hours, means that (i) they want to do extra work to
increase overtime; (ii) they want to replace one of the current work being engaged in
by another to be able to work overtime; (iii) they want to increase overtime for one
of the existing work, or a combination of the three expectation above;
Ready to work additional hours means that in the reference time (a week) if there
are job opportunities, they are willing to work additional hours immediately;
Work less than 35 hours, means that they have worked less than 35 hours during
the reference week for all work done.

Underemployment rate is the indicator expressing the rate between the number
of underemployed persons and the employed person.
Formula:

Number of underemployed persons

Underemployment rate (%) = × 100
Total number of employed persons

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