I propose another exercise that may be more useful and would provides us better data.
If a lot of people participates and give accurate data, the results can be analyzed and will show the reality of the current situation. A lot of inputs will give us proper statics.
The exercise is the following:
How many pilots you know, and within this pilots how many are employed as pilots?
The number of employed and unemployed pilots won’t be accurate but somehow the ratio will be.
So, one example may be:
I know 60 pilots and 20 out of that are employed.
Ratio is 33% of employment in our business.
“This is not a true data tomorrow I will review my facebook and give an accurate ratio".
Averaging all our ratios will give us the big picture!
Should we do it?
My guess is that the ratio is around 25%.