It does not include the self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, household workers and unpaid family workers.
Although the total number of workers going overseas increased slightly during the first half of this year, the overseas employment administration thinks things could be getting worse during the second half, especially for household workers.
The result of all of these factors is that in 2004, 56.4% of households in the bottom fifth featured no work by anyone for the entire year, not even part time work, leaving the average number of workers per household in the bottom fifth rounded down to zero by the Census Bureau.
If the insurance provided by an employer would cost workers more than 9.5 percent of their household income, that insurance is considered unaffordable and workers have a new option: purchase affordable coverage on the new health insurance exchanges, and receive a tax credit to make it easier to get the coverage they need.
In addition, people who live with or care for those at high risk for complications from the flu, including healthcare workers, and household visitors of persons at high risk for complications from the flu should be vaccinated.
In such a case, the priority groups would be pregnant women, health care and emergency services workers with direct patient contact, household contacts of children younger than 6 months, children age 6 months to 4 years and children younger than 19 with chronic medical conditions -- a total of 42 million people.
Of course, a household composed of one single person cannot have multiple workers in any event.
One of the greatest issues for China's 250 million migrant workers is the "hukou" system of household registration.
Household-employment tax filings for nannies and other domestic workers fell 7.8% in the two years ended in 2010, to 202, 000, based on the latest Internal Revenue Service data.
Other innovations, such as a credit for hiring household help, are designed to spur demand for low-wage workers.
Workers help people with learning disabilities to wash themselves, carry out household duties as well as taking them out shopping and on activities.
Moreover, 85% of these workers are women, and each is the sole breadwinner for her household, supporting between 4 and 8 family members.
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The rate of workers commuting by bicycle doubled between 2001 and 2009, according to National Household Travel Survey data.
This view is based on the household survey, he said, which showed employment of private sector wage and salary workers rose 319, 000.
The king's huge package of extra aid, which included household-debt relief, bigger housing loans and a 15% raise for state workers, was a standard response to public pressure.
Meanwhile, the household survey used to calculate the unemployment rate claims more than 2.6 million additional workers.
While stay-at-home moms may not be contributing to the market economy as workers, they make the majority of the day-to-day financial decisions on behalf of their household.
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