The number of persons who remained unemployed for a major part of the year is called:

1. A

   Usual status unemployment

   (a) Usual status unemployment. NSS usual principal (and subsidiary) status counts those unemployed for the major part of the year. (a) Official key.

2. B

   Daily status unemployment

   (b) Daily status unemployment. Current daily status uses each half-day in the reference week; it is the most inclusive, not the “major part of the year” measure.

3. C

   Weekly status unemployment

   (c) Weekly status unemployment. Current weekly status uses one week as the reference, not the year.

4. D

   None of the above

   (d) None of the above. Usual status already names the concept.

Summary. Official key is (a). Persons unemployed for the major part of the year are usual-status unemployed. Weekly and daily statuses use short reference periods.