HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

26. Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex

[Numbers in thousands]

Industry and class of worker

Total unemployed Unemployment rates

2010 2011

Total Men Women

2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011

Total, 16 years and over1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,825 13,747 9.6 8.9 10.5 9.4 8.6 8.5

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers2

. . . . . . . . . . . . 11,808 10,655 9.9 9.0 10.9 9.4 8.9 8.5

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 52 9.4 6.1 9.5 6.1 8.4 6.8

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,801 1,383 20.6 16.4 21.1 17.0 16.0 11.3

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,622 1,373 10.6 9.0 9.9 8.4 12.4 10.2

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,074 887 11.2 9.2 10.6 8.7 13.2 10.6

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 46 13.6 11.0 13.4 11.4 14.6 9.0

Primary metals and fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . 196 169 11.7 9.4 12.0 9.3 10.3 10.4

Machinery manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 95 9.9 7.9 8.9 7.5 13.1 9.1

Computers and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 111 9.5 8.1 7.6 7.3 13.4 9.7

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 36 8.9 9.1 8.3 7.6 10.2 12.4

Transportation equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 194 11.5 9.0 10.3 8.3 15.3 11.1

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 52 14.4 12.8 14.0 11.8 16.8 18.9

Furniture and fixtures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 59 15.6 11.6 15.6 12.1 15.9 9.9

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 127 10.2 9.1 9.3 8.0 11.7 10.9

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 485 9.6 8.5 8.6 7.9 11.5 9.7

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 152 8.6 8.4 7.5 7.7 10.5 9.7

Beverage and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 16 9.1 6.1 7.9 6.8 12.8 4.0

Textiles, apparel, and leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 73 14.2 11.4 13.5 11.5 14.7 11.3

Paper manufacturing and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 100 11.0 10.6 9.8 8.9 13.8 14.6

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 12 6.7 6.1 6.8 6.1 6.2 6.4

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 81 7.6 6.1 6.9 6.0 8.8 6.2

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 51 11.3 10.1 10.8 9.3 12.7 11.8

Wholesale and retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,963 1,834 9.5 8.9 9.3 8.1 9.8 9.9

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 268 7.3 6.9 7.2 6.3 7.7 8.4

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,675 1,566 10.0 9.4 10.0 8.8 10.1 10.1

Transportation and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 484 8.4 8.2 8.3 8.0 8.8 8.8

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 438 9.4 8.8 9.3 8.7 9.8 9.1

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 46 3.4 4.9 3.3 4.0 3.7 7.4

Information3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 222 9.7 7.3 9.4 7.0 10.2 7.8

Publishing, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 45 10.8 7.3 10.7 7.4 10.8 7.2

Motion pictures and sound recording industries. . . . . . . . . . 57 43 13.0 10.7 12.0 10.7 14.7 10.8

Radio and television broadcasting and cable subscription

programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 38 8.3 6.2 8.9 5.6 7.2 7.3

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 85 9.2 7.3 8.3 6.7 10.8 8.4

Libraries, archives, and other information services. . . . . . . 4 2 4.5 2.5 7.8 4.5 2.8 1.5

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 582 6.9 6.4 7.0 6.6 6.8 6.2

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442 394 6.6 5.9 6.6 5.9 6.6 5.9

Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 256 6.9 6.0 6.8 5.7 6.9 6.2

Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 138 6.2 5.9 6.2 6.4 6.2 5.5

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 188 7.6 7.7 7.8 8.0 7.3 7.3

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 148 6.4 7.2 6.3 7.5 6.5 7.0

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 40 12.8 9.8 12.7 9.6 12.9 10.2

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,561 1,430 10.8 9.7 10.6 9.2 11.1 10.4

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 498 6.5 5.8 5.7 4.8 7.5 7.1

Management, administrative, and waste services3

. . . . . . 1,018 932 16.8 15.0 16.7 14.7 17.0 15.5

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964 883 17.4 15.8 17.4 15.5 17.4 16.2

Waste management and remediation services. . . . . . . . . 48 38 11.1 9.3 12.0 10.1 6.5 5.9

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,243 1,217 5.8 5.6 5.9 5.3 5.7 5.7

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 284 6.4 6.4 6.9 6.4 6.2 6.5

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964 933 5.6 5.4 5.4 4.9 5.7 5.6

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 167 3.0 2.9 3.3 3.6 2.9 2.7

Health services, except hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582 532 6.4 5.9 6.4 4.7 6.4 6.2

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 234 8.6 9.3 7.7 9.3 8.8 9.3

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,592 1,527 12.2 11.6 12.4 11.3 11.9 11.8

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 282 11.6 11.5 13.4 12.1 9.4 10.7

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,301 1,246 12.3 11.6 12.1 11.1 12.5 12.1

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 156 11.2 10.3 11.0 8.1 11.4 12.1

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,127 1,089 12.5 11.9 12.3 11.6 12.6 12.1

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533 551 8.5 8.8 9.3 9.3 7.8 8.3

Other services, except private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 445 8.0 8.2 9.1 9.1 6.7 7.1

See footnotes at end of table.

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HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

26. Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Industry and class of worker

Total unemployed Unemployment rates

2010 2011

Total Men Women

2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 195 10.7 10.9 11.1 10.9 7.8 10.3

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 140 7.4 8.0 8.8 9.0 6.9 7.6

Membership associations and organizations. . . . . . . . . . . 118 110 6.1 5.8 5.7 5.6 6.3 5.9

Private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 106 12.5 12.8 18.8 16.3 11.8 12.4

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers2

. . . 211 190 13.9 12.5 13.2 11.5 16.4 15.6

Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969 1,013 4.4 4.7 4.5 4.6 4.3 4.7

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617 605 5.9 6.0 6.7 6.5 4.6 5.0

No previous work experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,220 1,284 – – – – – –

1 Includes a small number of persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces.

2 Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.

3 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not

shown where base is less than 35,000).

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