Joblessness and toillessness statistics

Mass media unemployment statistics are flawed, counting jobs by people, full-time or otherwise, and lump worthwhile, enjoyable or rewarding work together with pointless, meaningless or nasty work. Many jobs, careers and lives outside the realm of paid work include elements of all three. These should be separated.

So, have three categories: work, unemployment and toil. The ideal is little toil and unemployment and lots of work, though this would not always be good due to dirty jobs that someone's got to do or a need to serve one's time while working one's way up, so there should be some toil just as one needs breaks from work. However, analysing "work" was as toil versus work, and dividing employment statistics into work (amalgamated work "hours" including part-time employment to give a more realistic impression than simply counting jobs) and toil, including unpaid toil such as cleaning toilets or being stuck in a traffic jam, could encourage governments and people in general to minimise toil and unemployment and maximise employment rather than just getting rid of unemployment. Toil is almost, but not quite, as undesirable as unemployment, but work is good.

Another possibility might be to count paid and unpaid work, so for instance it includes housework and childcare by unpaid people such as parents.

Clearly toil can't be eliminated due to the factors i've mentioned, but it might change the way we look at these things.

I would define toil not as hard, exhausting or long physical labour, which could be very good, but time spent doing things which are any combination of pointless, repetitive, unpleasant or harmful to oneself or others. The more of those are involved, the more it counts as toil.