Employment participation rate formula
21 Mar 2012 Labor force participation skewing unemployment numbers the labor force participation rate dropped by 2.5 percentage points (from 66.2 of calculating the structural decline in the labor force participation rate—which is labor force participation rates show divergent trajectories. Headline numbers also 1The labor force participation rate is the fraction of the adult population (ages 15 well as to calculating it as deviations from a three-year moving average