[lbo-talk] BLS methodology and BDL

[tfast]

Yeah I was looking at this a while back so I could talk with righteous 
indignation about the ANC's redistribution through growth.  As an aside 
I am not a native of South Africa nor is anyone in my family.  Not that 
I would mind being native to SA, its just that it makes me uncomfortable 
to be lumped in with the white liberal SAers who fled when it was time 
for Truth and Reconciliation without Redistribution.

On a more serious note.  It would be interesting to know how many of the 
employed in the US earn between $1 than $200 a month.  They partly track 
this through the measure "employed part time for economic reasons".

Travis

Patrick Bond wrote:


> ----- Original Message ----- From: "tfast" <tfast at yorku.ca>
>
>> BLS:
>> To summarize: Employed persons consist of:
>> a.. All persons who did any work for pay or profit during the survey 
>> week.
>
>
> Travis, do you know the government in your native South Africa is even 
> more explicit. Pretoria's Labour Force Survey includes as 'employment' 
> the following: 'beg[ging] money or food in public. catch[ing] any 
> fish, prawns, shells, wild animals or other food for sale or family 
> food'. So in September 2001, 367,000 workers earned nothing for their 
> labour, while a further 718,000 were paid between R1 and R200 a month 
> (R6.3/US$, but closer to R9/$ in September 2001). The ANC claimed 
> they'd created 1.6 million new jobs in the decade after 1994, with 
> this sort of statistical support.
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