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Unemployment_rate [measured_value]

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Based on how many Individuals are employed, the Individuals as a whole are described with a Value (either a percentage or absolute number) representing the Employment of the Individuals.

[Unemployment|Employment] is down, salaries are up for US chemists.

As a result, the [unemployment|Employment] of Roma is very high.

Today's report finds that [unemployment|Employment] among single mothers rose for the first time in six years in 2002. DNI

In the 1950s and '60s, [joblessness|Employment] of 6 to 7 percent was intense, but now an
unemployment rate of below 6 percent could be inflationary. DNI.


The economy was operating at full capacity, traditionally defined as [employment|Employment] of 96 percent of the civilian labor force. DNI

Properties

ID
#1606
Entry
frm_unemployment_rate
Namespace
Attribute.Measured_value
FrameNet version
Unemployment_rate (fn_1.7_2023)
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Types
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Ontological type
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English name
Unemployment_rate

Core Frame Elements (4)

Core Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Degree
A modifier expressing the deviation of the Value from the norm.

This leads to high|deg joblessness in some pockets.
category
degree
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Employment
The property of a group of Individuals describing how many of them are employed or unemployed.

The statistics are shocking: [unemployment|emp] is 57 per cent.
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Individuals
The group of people whose employment status is considered.


The high unemployment of the Romany population is one of the key issues, which need addressing.
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Value
The count or percentage of people among the group of Individuals that are of the specified employment status.

While current unemployment of about 6% isn't high by historical standards, there's no denying this trend toward job exportation.
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FE Core Set(s) and Excludes

Excludes
Degree Value

Extra-thematic Frame Elements (3)

Extra-thematic Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Group
The number or rate of individuals that are either employed or unemployment may be contrasted, implicitly or explicitly, with different groups.

Ministers believe youth unemployment among Canada's Aboriginal
population|gro requires special and immediate attention.
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Place
The location where the Individuals under consideration reside.

A stadium is expected to cost $350 million, and financial woes caused by recession
and high joblessness in Oregon|pla all but rule out public financing.
category
locative_relation
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Time
The Time during which Employment level of the Individuals has a specified Value.

Last month's unemployment was 5.17 percent on a seasonally-adjusted basis.
category
time
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Frame-Frame Relations (1)

Inheritance

Inheritance relations
Inherits from
Measurable_attributes
FE-FE

Lexical Units (3)

Lexical units of this frame
LU Type Definition
employment.n โ€” FN: as opposed to unemployment, the number or proportion of employed people.
joblessness.n โ€” FN: the number or proportion of jobless people.
unemployment.n โ€” COD: the number or proportion of unemployed people.
Frame Chain TQR Visual Units

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