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

2012 2013

Total Men Women

2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013

Total, 16 years and over1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,506 11,460 8.1 7.4 8.2 7.6 7.9 7.1

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers2

. . . . . . . . . . . 9,531 8,693 7.9 7.2 8.0 7.4 7.8 6.9

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 64 6.0 5.8 6.2 5.8 4.6 5.9

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,129 935 13.9 11.3 14.1 11.6 11.1 8.9

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,122 1,019 7.3 6.6 6.7 6.3 8.7 7.4

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693 612 7.2 6.3 6.8 6.0 8.2 7.2

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 29 8.9 6.9 9.3 6.9 7.1 6.9

Primary metals and fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . 127 121 7.3 7.2 7.3 6.9 7.4 8.9

Machinery manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 64 5.9 5.0 5.2 4.4 8.3 7.0

Computers and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 82 6.2 6.0 5.6 5.5 7.5 7.2

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 24 8.4 5.6 7.4 5.9 10.4 5.0

Transportation equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 132 6.8 5.7 6.9 5.3 6.6 7.1

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 33 9.2 7.9 9.1 8.0 10.0 7.6

Furniture and fixtures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 34 7.7 7.9 7.0 7.7 9.7 8.4

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 93 8.1 6.6 7.0 6.5 9.8 6.9

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 407 7.5 7.1 6.5 6.8 9.3 7.5

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 161 8.9 8.7 8.2 8.4 10.0 9.3

Beverage and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 18 5.6 6.2 6.0 6.6 4.4 5.3

Textiles, apparel, and leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 53 9.5 9.1 7.1 7.3 11.6 10.8

Paper manufacturing and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 61 8.4 6.2 6.7 6.4 12.7 5.9

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 5.1 5.5 4.2 5.4 – –

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 63 5.2 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.6 3.9

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 40 6.4 7.1 5.6 6.8 8.3 8.2

Wholesale and retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,663 1,463 8.1 7.3 7.4 6.8 9.0 7.8

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 199 6.0 5.4 5.1 4.8 8.0 6.9

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,438 1,264 8.6 7.7 8.0 7.4 9.2 8.0

Transportation and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 406 6.9 6.6 6.6 6.4 8.1 7.4

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 369 7.4 7.1 7.1 6.8 8.4 8.0

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 37 4.3 4.1 3.4 4.1 6.7 4.1

Information3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 175 7.6 6.2 6.6 5.9 9.4 6.7

Publishing, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 31 6.5 5.2 7.3 6.8 5.6 3.4

Motion pictures and sound recording industries. . . . . . . . . 49 38 12.9 9.3 12.0 8.6 14.7 10.7

Radio and television broadcasting and cable

subscription programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 30 6.2 5.2 5.2 5.1 8.1 5.6

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 60 7.2 6.1 5.4 4.7 10.9 8.6

Libraries, archives, and other information services. . . . . . 7 5 8.0 5.9 – – 7.5 4.2

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 424 5.1 4.5 4.6 4.8 5.4 4.3

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 274 4.5 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.9 4.0

Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 180 4.6 4.1 4.0 4.5 5.0 3.9

Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 94 4.4 3.7 3.8 3.1 4.7 4.1

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 150 6.6 6.0 6.1 6.4 7.3 5.5

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 123 6.2 5.8 5.4 6.2 7.1 5.4

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 27 8.7 7.1 8.6 7.3 8.8 6.4

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,358 1,284 8.9 8.3 8.5 8.2 9.3 8.4

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 444 5.4 4.9 4.5 4.3 6.6 5.5

Management, administrative, and waste services3

. . . . . . 871 840 13.7 13.1 13.7 13.2 13.8 13.0

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822 804 14.4 13.9 14.4 14.1 14.3 13.7

Waste management and remediation services. . . . . . . . 40 31 9.0 6.8 8.7 6.6 10.5 7.5

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,232 1,098 5.5 4.9 5.3 4.8 5.6 5.0

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 274 6.5 6.0 5.9 5.5 6.8 6.3

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 938 825 5.3 4.6 5.1 4.5 5.4 4.7

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 149 2.9 2.6 3.0 3.4 2.9 2.4

Health services, except hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 490 5.8 5.0 5.2 4.8 5.9 5.0

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 186 8.8 8.0 10.5 7.1 8.5 8.2

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,403 1,379 10.4 10.0 9.7 9.9 11.0 10.1

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 246 9.7 9.3 10.0 10.3 9.3 8.2

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,160 1,133 10.6 10.1 9.6 9.8 11.4 10.4

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 146 10.6 9.3 8.8 8.5 11.9 9.9

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996 987 10.6 10.3 9.8 10.0 11.3 10.5

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 445 7.2 6.9 7.3 6.5 7.0 7.2

Other services, except private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 358 6.5 6.3 7.2 6.4 5.8 6.2

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

2012 2013

Total Men Women

2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 143 8.2 7.7 8.5 7.6 6.3 9.0

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 121 6.8 6.5 7.2 6.2 6.7 6.7

Membership associations and organizations. . . . . . . . . . 94 95 4.7 4.8 4.6 4.4 4.8 5.1

Private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 87 11.4 10.7 11.5 11.0 11.3 10.7

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers2

. . . 188 141 12.4 10.1 11.3 8.5 16.0 15.4

Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923 851 4.3 4.0 4.2 4.0 4.4 4.0

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 527 5.4 5.3 5.8 5.8 4.7 4.5

No previous work experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,316 1,247 – – – – – –

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 50,000).

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