You can't, in this economy, be unemployed for a fucking year. If you are, it is because you are either 1) lazy, 2) do not need to work or 3) disabled and unfortuantely cannot work.
EDIT: To answer your dumbass comment about unemployment stats...
...There are numerous ways that employment stats are tracked. There is a survey done phone-to-phone to see in households who are able to work, who are working, and who are unemployed. Unemployment claims are another way another organization gathers unemployment stats.