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

2011 2012

Total Men Women

2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012

Total, 16 years and over1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,747 12,506 8.9 8.1 9.4 8.2 8.5 7.9

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers2

. . . . . . . . . . . . 10,655 9,531 9.0 7.9 9.4 8.0 8.5 7.8

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 59 6.1 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.8 4.6

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,383 1,129 16.4 13.9 17.0 14.1 11.3 11.1

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,373 1,122 9.0 7.3 8.4 6.7 10.2 8.7

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887 693 9.2 7.2 8.7 6.8 10.6 8.2

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 37 11.0 8.9 11.4 9.3 9.0 7.1

Primary metals and fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . 169 127 9.4 7.3 9.3 7.3 10.4 7.4

Machinery manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 80 7.9 5.9 7.5 5.2 9.1 8.3

Computers and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 83 8.1 6.2 7.3 5.6 9.7 7.5

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 35 9.1 8.4 7.6 7.4 12.4 10.4

Transportation equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 147 9.0 6.8 8.3 6.9 11.1 6.6

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 37 12.8 9.2 11.8 9.1 18.9 10.0

Furniture and fixtures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 32 11.6 7.7 12.1 7.0 9.9 9.7

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 114 9.1 8.1 8.0 7.0 10.9 9.8

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 430 8.5 7.5 7.9 6.5 9.7 9.3

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 162 8.4 8.9 7.7 8.2 9.7 10.0

Beverage and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 16 6.1 5.6 6.8 6.0 4.0 4.4

Textiles, apparel, and leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 58 11.4 9.5 11.5 7.1 11.3 11.6

Paper manufacturing and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 79 10.6 8.4 8.9 6.7 14.6 12.7

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 11 6.1 5.1 6.1 4.2 6.4 –

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 70 6.1 5.2 6.0 5.0 6.2 5.6

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 33 10.1 6.4 9.3 5.6 11.8 8.3

Wholesale and retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,834 1,663 8.9 8.1 8.1 7.4 9.9 9.0

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 225 6.9 6.0 6.3 5.1 8.4 8.0

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,566 1,438 9.4 8.6 8.8 8.0 10.1 9.2

Transportation and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484 410 8.2 6.9 8.0 6.6 8.8 8.1

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 372 8.8 7.4 8.7 7.1 9.1 8.4

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 38 4.9 4.3 4.0 3.4 7.4 6.7

Information3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 218 7.3 7.6 7.0 6.6 7.8 9.4

Publishing, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 39 7.3 6.5 7.4 7.3 7.2 5.6

Motion pictures and sound recording industries. . . . . . . . . . 43 49 10.7 12.9 10.7 12.0 10.8 14.7

Radio and television broadcasting and cable subscription

programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 35 6.2 6.2 5.6 5.2 7.3 8.1

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 76 7.3 7.2 6.7 5.4 8.4 10.9

Libraries, archives, and other information services. . . . . . . 2 7 2.5 8.0 – 9.0 1.5 7.5

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582 466 6.4 5.1 6.6 4.6 6.2 5.4

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 302 5.9 4.5 5.9 4.0 5.9 4.9

Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 200 6.0 4.6 5.7 4.0 6.2 5.0

Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 102 5.9 4.4 6.4 3.8 5.5 4.7

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 164 7.7 6.6 8.0 6.1 7.3 7.3

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 128 7.2 6.2 7.5 5.4 7.0 7.1

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 36 9.8 8.7 9.6 8.6 10.2 8.8

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,430 1,358 9.7 8.9 9.2 8.5 10.4 9.3

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498 487 5.8 5.4 4.8 4.5 7.1 6.6

Management, administrative, and waste services3

. . . . . . 932 871 15.0 13.7 14.7 13.7 15.5 13.8

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883 822 15.8 14.4 15.5 14.4 16.2 14.3

Waste management and remediation services. . . . . . . . . 38 40 9.3 9.0 10.1 8.7 5.9 10.5

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,217 1,232 5.6 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.7 5.6

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 295 6.4 6.5 6.4 5.9 6.5 6.8

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933 938 5.4 5.3 4.9 5.1 5.6 5.4

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 159 2.9 2.9 3.6 3.0 2.7 2.9

Health services, except hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 560 5.9 5.8 4.7 5.2 6.2 5.9

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 218 9.3 8.8 9.3 10.5 9.3 8.5

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,527 1,403 11.6 10.4 11.3 9.7 11.8 11.0

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 243 11.5 9.7 12.1 10.0 10.7 9.3

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,246 1,160 11.6 10.6 11.1 9.6 12.1 11.4

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 164 10.3 10.6 8.1 8.8 12.1 11.9

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,089 996 11.9 10.6 11.6 9.8 12.1 11.3

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 470 8.8 7.2 9.3 7.3 8.3 7.0

Other services, except private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 376 8.2 6.5 9.1 7.2 7.1 5.8

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

2011 2012

Total Men Women

2011 2012 2011 2012 2011 2012

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 154 10.9 8.2 10.9 8.5 10.3 6.3

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 128 8.0 6.8 9.0 7.2 7.6 6.7

Membership associations and organizations. . . . . . . . . . . 110 94 5.8 4.7 5.6 4.6 5.9 4.8

Private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 94 12.8 11.4 16.3 11.5 12.4 11.3

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers2

. . . 190 188 12.5 12.4 11.5 11.3 15.6 16.0

Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,013 923 4.7 4.3 4.6 4.2 4.7 4.4

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 547 6.0 5.4 6.5 5.8 5.0 4.7

No previous work experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,284 1,316 – – – – – –

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 35,000).

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