HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

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

[Percent distribution]

Reason, sex, and age

2019

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,001 100.0 34.8 29.8 35.4 14.3 21.1

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 2,786 100.0 37.9 30.1 32.0 14.3 17.7

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823 100.0 57.6 30.8 11.6 8.1 3.6

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,963 100.0 29.7 29.8 40.5 16.9 23.6

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,343 100.0 27.4 29.2 43.3 17.6 25.7

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620 100.0 34.7 30.9 34.4 15.3 19.2

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814 100.0 35.8 30.2 33.9 14.4 19.5

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,810 100.0 29.9 28.9 41.2 14.5 26.6

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 100.0 33.1 30.7 36.1 13.8 22.4

Men, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,819 100.0 32.1 29.0 38.9 14.8 24.1

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,548 100.0 36.7 29.8 33.5 14.5 19.1

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 100.0 55.0 31.0 13.9 10.0 3.9

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,091 100.0 29.0 29.3 41.7 16.3 25.4

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736 100.0 27.2 29.2 43.7 16.4 27.2

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 100.0 32.7 29.6 37.6 16.0 21.6

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 100.0 32.3 29.8 37.9 15.0 22.9

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708 100.0 24.2 26.9 48.9 15.7 33.2

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 100.0 21.5 27.4 51.1 13.6 37.6

Women, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,435 100.0 34.4 30.0 35.7 14.7 20.9

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,132 100.0 38.0 30.4 31.5 14.8 16.7

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 100.0 59.7 31.8 8.5 5.7 2.8

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807 100.0 29.3 29.9 40.8 18.4 22.3

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 100.0 26.5 29.0 44.5 19.9 24.6

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 100.0 36.1 32.1 31.8 15.1 16.8

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 100.0 37.0 31.3 31.7 14.4 17.2

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836 100.0 29.9 29.4 40.7 14.5 26.2

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 100.0 23.8 25.4 50.8 16.7 34.1

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 100.0 46.1 32.6 21.4 11.2 10.2

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 106 100.0 55.6 29.6 14.8 6.4 8.3

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 100.0 68.5 20.4 11.1 5.4 5.7

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 100.0 47.1 35.7 17.2 7.1 10.0

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 100.0 46.1 34.9 19.0 7.1 11.9

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 100.0 – – – – –

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 100.0 56.3 26.7 17.0 9.6 7.4

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 100.0 45.4 32.8 21.9 11.6 10.3

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 100.0 41.9 34.3 23.9 12.8 11.1

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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