A recently published paper by Princeton University?s Survey Research Center suggests that the unemployment rate is considerably higher than 6.2 percent, the value provided by the government as the Official Unemployment Rate. With only an 89 percent response rate and more people qualifying as out of the labor force rather than unemployed, it seems that the surveys collected by the Department of Labor could be providing an inaccurate look at the unemployment rate. However, both Democrats and Republicans dismissed these claims.
See "A New Reason to Question the Official Unemployment Rate", David Leonhardt, The New York Times, August 26, 2014