People who don't have a job and aren't interested in getting one, like housewives, are not included in unemployment numbers. What is measured is how much of the

People who don't have a job and aren't interested in getting one, like housewives, are not included in unemployment numbers. What is measured is how much of the labour force is currently unemployed. If you're not in the labour force, you're neither employed nor unemployed. You're just not covered by those particular statistics, just like children and pensioners. If you're interested in how large a fraction of the working age population is employed, see employment rate.