HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

29. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment, sex, age, and duration of unemployment

[Percent distribution]

Reason, sex, and age

2015

Total unemployed Duration of unemployment

Thousands

of persons Percent Less than5 weeks

5 to 14

weeks

15 weeks and over

Total 15 to 26

weeks

27 weeks

and over

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,296 100.0 28.9 27.7 43.3 15.3 28.1

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 4,063 100.0 31.2 28.0 40.8 15.3 25.5

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974 100.0 55.2 31.1 13.7 9.8 3.8

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,089 100.0 23.6 27.1 49.3 17.0 32.3

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,178 100.0 21.2 26.4 52.4 17.6 34.8

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910 100.0 29.5 28.5 42.0 15.4 26.6

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819 100.0 32.4 30.7 36.9 14.8 22.1

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,535 100.0 24.6 25.8 49.6 15.6 34.0

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879 100.0 27.5 29.4 43.1 14.8 28.3

Men, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,959 100.0 26.8 26.2 47.1 15.5 31.6

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 2,361 100.0 30.1 27.1 42.8 15.8 27.0

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 100.0 53.4 29.9 16.7 12.5 4.2

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,798 100.0 22.8 26.2 51.0 16.9 34.1

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,240 100.0 19.6 25.3 55.0 17.7 37.4

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558 100.0 29.9 28.0 42.1 15.1 27.0

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 100.0 29.5 29.4 41.2 15.1 26.1

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,014 100.0 20.3 23.6 56.1 15.0 41.1

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 100.0 15.2 23.1 61.7 15.0 46.7

Women, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,371 100.0 28.3 28.2 43.5 15.4 28.1

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,570 100.0 30.8 29.7 39.6 14.9 24.7

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 100.0 55.0 35.0 10.1 6.7 3.4

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,208 100.0 23.5 28.1 48.4 17.3 31.1

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888 100.0 22.2 27.6 50.2 17.8 32.4

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 100.0 27.3 29.4 43.3 16.0 27.3

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 100.0 33.1 31.3 35.6 15.6 20.0

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,220 100.0 24.6 25.8 49.6 16.3 33.3

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 100.0 21.7 25.2 53.1 13.4 39.7

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966 100.0 39.9 32.6 27.5 14.0 13.5

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 132 100.0 55.7 25.7 18.6 10.1 8.5

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 100.0 77.7 16.5 5.8 2.9 3.0

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 100.0 42.4 31.3 26.3 14.5 11.8

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 100.0 42.2 32.9 24.8 13.0 11.9

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 100.0 – – – – –

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 100.0 48.9 36.5 14.6 7.4 7.2

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 100.0 39.2 33.0 27.8 14.6 13.3

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 100.0 35.1 33.8 31.1 15.3 15.8

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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