HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

28. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

[Numbers in thousands]

Reason

White Black or African

American Asian Hispanic or Latinoethnicity

2017 2018 2017 2018 2017 2018 2017 2018

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Total unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,765 4,354 1,501 1,322 333 304 1,401 1,323

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 2,418 2,128 705 610 141 117 694 642

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763 681 113 108 27 24 221 207

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,656 1,447 592 502 114 93 473 435

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,198 1,007 398 316 94 73 315 273

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 439 194 186 20 20 158 162

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557 560 145 143 38 46 147 148

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,368 1,301 481 423 103 93 408 379

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 364 169 146 51 49 152 154

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Total unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 50.8 48.9 47.0 46.1 42.4 38.4 49.6 48.5

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.0 15.6 7.5 8.2 8.2 7.8 15.8 15.6

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.7 33.2 39.4 37.9 34.1 30.6 33.8 32.9

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.7 12.9 9.7 10.8 11.5 15.1 10.5 11.2

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.7 29.9 32.1 32.0 31.0 30.4 29.1 28.6

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.9 8.4 11.3 11.1 15.2 16.1 10.8 11.7

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 1.9 1.7 3.5 3.0 1.4 1.2 2.5 2.3

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.4 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 1.0 2.4 2.1 1.1 0.9 1.5 1.3

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.3 0.3 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5

NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Persons

whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

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