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Underemployment Concepts and Definitions
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Concepts and Definitions

Time-related Underemployed Persons are persons aged fifteen years and over who are working less than 35 hours a week (i.e. working part-time) and are willing and available to engage in additional work.

Time-related Underemployment Rate is defined as the percentage of time-related underemployed persons to employed persons.