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To gamemaster, you people realy need math lessons !!

Topics: General: To gamemaster, you people realy need math lessons !!

dennis.bradley

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 05:08 am Click here to edit this post
I have 10,150,993 Employed .I have 66,990 unemployed .But my unemployment rate 3.13% .I have calculated that my unemployment rate should realy be about .67%

Tony.w

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 01:01 pm Click here to edit this post
you 'realy' need english lessons!! :P

Borg Queen

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 01:21 pm Click here to edit this post
but he's got a point, something isnt working with the %'s. Unimatrix 01 on KB: From my unemployment index of 3.75 I should have about 2.5m unemployment but my unemployment numbers run between 1.5m-1.6m so even if you take in the fluctuation its not even near to what the numbers really are and the index should be about 2.3

Laguna

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 01:28 pm Click here to edit this post
Include housewives and disabled in "potential labour force".

Borg Queen

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 10:44 pm Click here to edit this post
Wouldnt work out either, got 3.8m disabled, counting from the SCC page and if I substract the 'recovered' disabled its still 1.9m so with that 1.5m would be way above the 2.5m for the 3.75 index. And of course housewives are a lot more

dboyd3702

Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 04:16 am Click here to edit this post
I had pointed this out before and the GMs indicated that they use a modified formula that calms down sudden variations, I do not remember the exact formula, but if you really want to know you can shoot them an email.

Laguna

Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 05:11 pm Click here to edit this post
It's all changes. It is a weighted average.

It is not only the rehabilitated that count, but the total number of housewives and disabled people.

Despite using their methodology, the numbers don't add up.

seven_devils

Friday, March 29, 2013 - 02:40 pm Click here to edit this post
Today's question as it relates to life in general....do the numbers ever really add up?

T Mac

Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 12:20 am Click here to edit this post
have you added in all the people who moved back in with their parents and those who quit looking for work?

dboyd3702

Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 12:35 am Click here to edit this post
I found the formula Andy posted:

The unemployment percentage is calculated as 100 - employed percentage.

employment is calculated as the number of employed, divided by the number of employed + unemployed.

There is a slight deviation when the employment is high and there is a delay in the calculation that may deliver slightly different numbers but prevents big jumps that are unrealistic.
new corporations never hire 200.000 people in a single month so it is smoothed.

dboyd3702

Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 12:43 am Click here to edit this post
And no, the numbers still do not add up.
Example:
Employed = 48,810,806 (49.2 % of total population)
Unemployed = 477,472 (Using formula above = 0.9687%)
No new corps built...
No military size change...
Listed Percentage is 2.43%

dboyd3702

Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 12:49 am Click here to edit this post
A pattern forms:
Example:
Employed = 52,783,832(49.61 % of total population)
Unemployed = 429166 (Using formula above = 0.8065%)
No new corps built...
No military size change...
Listed Percentage is 2.43%


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