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by sospep 3779 days ago
I believe its U3 and U6 numbers.

Came across an interesting article[0] about how they are measuring these along with some historical data. It touches on underemployment as well, indicating that the underemployed are included in the U6 numbers.

The articles most recent(2015-06) monthly U3 rate of 5.3% is about half of the U6 rate of 10.5% for the same period.

[0] http://econbrowser.com/archives/2015/07/measuring-unemployme...