HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

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

[Percent distribution]

Reason, sex, and age

2020

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,947 100.0 28.6 36.5 34.8 19.4 15.4

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 9,770 100.0 28.1 39.0 32.9 20.2 12.7

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,371 100.0 31.2 43.6 25.2 18.3 6.9

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,399 100.0 22.3 30.4 47.4 23.8 23.6

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,655 100.0 21.0 29.8 49.2 24.9 24.3

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744 100.0 26.8 32.2 41.1 20.0 21.1

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683 100.0 34.0 28.6 37.3 16.0 21.3

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,969 100.0 28.8 28.4 42.8 17.9 25.0

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526 100.0 30.7 31.6 37.7 15.3 22.4

Men, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,118 100.0 27.6 35.4 37.1 19.8 17.2

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 4,837 100.0 27.9 37.3 34.8 20.4 14.4

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,917 100.0 32.2 42.4 25.4 18.2 7.3

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,920 100.0 21.3 29.7 49.0 23.8 25.2

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,480 100.0 20.0 29.2 50.8 25.5 25.4

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 100.0 25.6 31.6 42.8 18.1 24.7

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 100.0 31.2 29.2 39.5 17.6 21.9

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817 100.0 25.6 27.8 46.6 17.9 28.7

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 100.0 17.3 25.7 56.9 17.7 39.2

Women, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,804 100.0 27.5 37.7 34.7 20.1 14.7

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 4,507 100.0 27.3 40.3 32.4 20.7 11.6

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,121 100.0 29.4 44.5 26.0 19.1 6.9

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,386 100.0 22.5 30.9 46.6 24.3 22.3

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,107 100.0 21.4 30.3 48.3 24.6 23.7

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 100.0 26.9 33.3 39.9 23.1 16.7

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 100.0 34.8 27.6 37.7 15.5 22.2

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872 100.0 27.0 28.6 44.5 18.8 25.7

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 100.0 22.0 32.2 45.8 16.7 29.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,025 100.0 41.4 36.4 22.2 13.3 8.8

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 426 100.0 39.2 43.3 17.5 12.8 4.7

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 100.0 39.6 45.3 15.1 11.7 3.5

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 100.0 37.8 36.0 26.1 16.8 9.3

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 100.0 35.1 37.9 27.0 16.7 10.3

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 100.0 – – – – –

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 100.0 51.3 30.8 17.9 7.0 10.8

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 100.0 43.9 29.4 26.7 14.9 11.8

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 100.0 40.7 33.9 25.4 13.6 11.8

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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