HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

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

[Percent distribution]

Reason, sex, and age

2023

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,080 100.0 34.7 30.7 34.6 15.2 19.4

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 2,870 100.0 37.4 30.9 31.7 15.4 16.3

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811 100.0 56.7 30.6 12.8 9.1 3.6

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,059 100.0 29.8 31.1 39.1 17.8 21.3

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,485 100.0 28.1 31.6 40.3 18.9 21.4

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574 100.0 34.2 29.7 36.1 14.9 21.1

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822 100.0 37.8 31.4 30.8 14.4 16.3

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,831 100.0 29.9 29.1 41.0 15.4 25.6

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556 100.0 32.3 33.7 34.0 14.9 19.1

Men, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,985 100.0 32.3 30.0 37.7 16.4 21.3

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,676 100.0 35.8 30.9 33.3 15.8 17.5

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 100.0 54.0 30.9 15.1 11.6 3.6

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,213 100.0 28.9 30.9 40.2 17.4 22.8

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872 100.0 27.4 31.6 41.0 18.2 22.9

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 100.0 32.7 29.1 38.2 15.5 22.6

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 100.0 35.1 29.3 35.6 16.4 19.2

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767 100.0 24.5 27.8 47.6 17.3 30.4

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 100.0 25.0 32.8 42.2 18.8 23.4

Women, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,382 100.0 34.0 31.3 34.7 15.1 19.6

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,086 100.0 37.2 31.5 31.3 15.6 15.6

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 100.0 57.1 32.4 10.5 6.4 4.2

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787 100.0 29.7 31.2 39.1 19.2 20.0

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579 100.0 28.2 31.0 40.8 20.7 20.1

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 100.0 33.8 31.7 34.5 14.9 19.6

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 100.0 38.3 33.7 28.0 13.1 14.8

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809 100.0 29.1 30.1 40.8 14.9 25.9

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 100.0 25.4 29.9 44.7 16.7 28.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713 100.0 47.2 31.6 21.2 10.8 10.4

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 108 100.0 63.8 25.3 10.9 5.9 5.0

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 100.0 79.6 16.3 4.1 3.3 0.8

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 100.0 50.4 32.8 16.8 8.1 8.6

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 100.0 – – – – –

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 100.0 – – – – –

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 100.0 54.3 31.4 14.3 9.0 5.4

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 100.0 48.5 29.8 21.7 11.5 10.2

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 100.0 38.7 35.6 25.7 12.3 13.5

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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