Estimating the unemployment rate using least square and conjugate gradient methods

Unemployment rate is one of the major issues among Malaysian citizens. The unemployment rate indicates the percentage of the total workforce who are actively seeking employment and currently unemployed. In this paper, a data of unemployment rate of a state in Malaysia from year 2000 until 2015 is collected. The statistics data is extracted by Labour Force Survey Malaysia (LFSM) which was conducted monthly by using household approach targeted to...