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A term which is used to describe those unemployed people in the economy who are still actively seeking employment and have not yet succeeded in finding it. The quarterly labour force survey (QLFS) defines the unemployment rate as the percentage of people who are commercially active as a percentage of the total number of people who are employed plus those seeking employment. The omission of people who have given up looking for work distorts the unemployment rate - as it did in the second quarter of 2020 when about 5 million people were unemployed and were not defined as commercially active because they were confined to their homes because of the pandemic.