The Labor Force Approach and the Korean Labor Force Data

Abstract

There have been basically two conceptual approaches to the regular economic activities of the population in the working ages, roughly 15-64, in censuses or related surveys in various countries. The first type, called the gainful worker(or gainfully occupied) approach, is primarily concerned with the usual economic activity or status of a person of working age while the second type, called the labor force approach, is with the economic activity in any specified time period, considering whether the person is working(employed) or unemployed at the time of the census.