HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

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

[Percent distribution]

Reason, sex, and age

2022

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,996 100.0 37.0 28.5 34.5 12.6 21.9

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 2,767 100.0 38.8 27.4 33.8 11.9 22.0

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830 100.0 61.0 26.1 12.9 6.6 6.3

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,936 100.0 29.3 28.0 42.8 14.1 28.7

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,359 100.0 26.8 27.5 45.7 14.1 31.7

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577 100.0 35.2 29.0 35.9 14.2 21.7

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857 100.0 41.7 33.2 25.1 12.9 12.2

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,891 100.0 31.8 27.5 40.6 14.0 26.6

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 100.0 38.1 30.7 31.2 10.9 20.3

Men, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,867 100.0 34.7 28.0 37.3 12.5 24.8

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,566 100.0 38.4 27.1 34.6 11.5 23.1

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 100.0 59.7 25.9 14.4 8.1 6.3

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,101 100.0 29.3 27.6 43.1 12.9 30.2

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763 100.0 26.1 27.0 46.9 13.1 33.8

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 100.0 36.5 28.9 34.6 12.6 21.9

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 100.0 38.6 35.2 26.2 12.8 13.4

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761 100.0 27.2 25.4 47.4 14.7 32.7

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 100.0 21.4 30.0 48.6 11.7 36.9

Women, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,453 100.0 35.7 28.5 35.8 13.4 22.4

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,105 100.0 37.5 28.1 34.4 12.6 21.7

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 100.0 60.7 28.0 11.3 4.4 6.9

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777 100.0 27.7 28.1 44.1 16.1 28.0

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564 100.0 26.3 28.1 45.6 15.6 30.0

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 100.0 31.5 28.4 40.2 17.5 22.7

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 100.0 43.3 30.3 26.4 13.7 12.7

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879 100.0 30.6 28.4 41.0 14.3 26.7

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 100.0 33.3 26.9 39.8 12.2 27.6

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 100.0 50.8 31.1 18.1 10.2 7.9

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 95 100.0 60.7 24.2 15.1 8.8 6.3

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 100.0 79.7 11.3 9.1 7.6 1.4

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 100.0 48.5 32.5 18.9 9.6 9.4

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 100.0 – – – – –

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

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 100.0 52.2 36.5 11.4 9.6 1.8

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 100.0 50.4 30.8 18.7 10.9 7.8

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 100.0 47.3 32.4 20.2 10.1 10.1

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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