The following are not counted among the unemployed:
* new graduates and school leavers (regardless of education level) — you can’t be counted as unemployed until you have been employed!
* people who were out of the laborforce for awhile but are returning to work & actively seeking employment — mothers returning to work, people who took time off to go back to school, people who were ill, surgery, temporarily disabled
* people who have been unemployed for an extended period and are discouraged or can’t even find an opening to apply for (a good example is blue collar workers when their industry – autos, steel, textiles – shuts down and there is nothing anwhere which uses their skills, and no one willing or able to hire them for unskilled labor) or retrain them)
* American citizens who worked overseas & return to the US
* active job hunters who take temp work to keep a roof overhead while jobhunting or hoping for temp-to-perm
* disguising oneself as a "consultant" to hide the fact one is unemployed – it is easier to get a job if you already have one
* people doing irregular labor, day labor, etc – house or office cleaning, nannies/babysitters, "odd jobs"
* people working "off the books"
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