real unemployment at ~17%

Table A-12. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

  HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                            HOUSEHOLD DATA

 Table A-12.  Alternative measures of labor underutilization

 (Percent)
                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                        
                                                           Not seasonally adjusted                   Seasonally adjusted                
                                                                                                                                        
                         Measure                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                        
                                                           Sept.    Aug.     Sept.    Sept.    May      June     July     Aug.     Sept.
                                                           2008     2009     2009     2008     2009     2009     2009     2009     2009 
                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                        
 U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent                                                                                
      of the civilian labor force.......................    2.3      4.9      5.3      2.4      4.5      5.1      5.1      5.1      5.4 
                                                                                                                                        
 U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary                                                                                     
      jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force....    3.0      6.0      6.0      3.5      6.2      6.2      6.2      6.4      6.8 
                                                                                                                                        
 U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian                                                                                     
      labor force (official unemployment rate)..........    6.0      9.6      9.5      6.2      9.4      9.5      9.4      9.7      9.8 
                                                                                                                                        
 U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a                                                                                    
      percent of the civilian labor force plus                                                                                          
      discouraged workers...............................    6.2     10.0      9.9      6.5      9.8     10.0      9.8     10.1     10.2 
                                                                                                                                        
 U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus                                                                                   
      all other marginally attached workers, as a                                                                                       
      percent of the civilian labor force plus all                                                                                      
      marginally attached workers.......................    6.9     10.9     10.8      7.2     10.6     10.8     10.7     11.0     11.1 
                                                                                                                                        
 U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached                                                                                     
      workers, plus total employed part time for                                                                                        
      economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian                                                                                    
      labor force plus all marginally attached workers..   10.6     16.5     16.1     11.2     16.4     16.5     16.3     16.8     17.0 

    NOTE:  Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and
 are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past.  Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached,
 have given a job-market related reason for not looking currently for a job.  Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those
 who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.  For more information, see "BLS intro-
 duces new range of alternative unemployment measures," in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor Review.  Updated population con-
 trols are introduced annually with the release of January data.