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

2013 2014

Total Men Women

2013 2014 2013 2014 2013 2014

Total, 16 years and over1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,460 9,617 7.4 6.2 7.6 6.3 7.1 6.1

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers2

. . . . . . . . . . . 8,693 7,267 7.2 5.9 7.4 5.9 6.9 5.9

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 52 5.8 4.7 5.8 5.0 5.9 2.5

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935 762 11.3 8.9 11.6 9.3 8.9 5.5

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,019 754 6.6 4.9 6.3 4.5 7.4 5.8

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 454 6.3 4.7 6.0 4.5 7.2 5.1

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 16 6.9 3.8 6.9 3.2 6.9 6.1

Primary metals and fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . 121 68 7.2 4.1 6.9 4.2 8.9 3.9

Machinery manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 65 5.0 4.8 4.4 4.7 7.0 5.1

Computers and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 69 6.0 5.2 5.5 4.6 7.2 6.6

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 19 5.6 4.4 5.9 3.0 5.0 8.4

Transportation equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 86 5.7 3.7 5.3 3.9 7.1 3.0

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 23 7.9 5.9 8.0 6.4 7.6 2.8

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 24 7.9 5.9 7.7 6.2 8.4 5.1

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 85 6.6 5.9 6.5 5.6 6.9 6.5

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 300 7.1 5.2 6.8 4.4 7.5 6.7

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 124 8.7 6.8 8.4 5.2 9.3 9.0

Beverage and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 10 6.2 3.4 6.6 3.6 5.3 2.9

Textiles, apparel, and leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 52 9.1 8.7 7.3 7.1 10.8 10.2

Paper manufacturing and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 38 6.2 4.1 6.4 4.1 5.9 4.0

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 5.5 1.9 5.4 2.1 – –

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 48 4.9 3.5 5.3 3.5 3.9 3.5

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 24 7.1 4.9 6.8 4.6 8.2 5.4

Wholesale and retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,463 1,260 7.3 6.1 6.8 5.5 7.8 6.9

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 161 5.4 4.4 4.8 4.2 6.9 4.9

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,264 1,099 7.7 6.5 7.4 5.9 8.0 7.1

Transportation and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 357 6.6 5.7 6.4 5.3 7.4 7.1

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 336 7.1 6.3 6.8 5.9 8.0 7.9

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 20 4.1 2.1 4.1 1.8 4.1 3.2

Information3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 153 6.2 5.2 5.9 5.0 6.7 5.6

Publishing, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 37 5.2 5.7 6.8 5.8 3.4 5.6

Motion pictures and sound recording industries. . . . . . . . . 38 30 9.3 7.1 8.6 6.6 10.7 8.1

Radio and television broadcasting and cable

subscription programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 37 5.2 6.0 5.1 6.0 5.6 6.1

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 39 6.1 4.0 4.7 3.6 8.6 4.7

Libraries, archives, and other information services. . . . . . 5 2 5.9 1.6 – – 4.2 1.0

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 373 4.5 4.0 4.8 3.6 4.3 4.3

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 259 4.0 3.8 4.0 3.2 4.0 4.2

Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 179 4.1 4.2 4.5 3.4 3.9 4.8

Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 80 3.7 3.1 3.1 2.9 4.1 3.2

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 114 6.0 4.5 6.4 4.4 5.5 4.6

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 92 5.8 4.3 6.2 4.0 5.4 4.6

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 22 7.1 6.0 7.3 6.1 6.4 5.5

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,284 1,083 8.3 6.9 8.2 6.6 8.4 7.4

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 383 4.9 4.1 4.3 3.5 5.5 4.8

Management, administrative, and waste services3

. . . . . . 840 700 13.1 11.2 13.2 10.8 13.0 11.7

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 660 13.9 11.8 14.1 11.7 13.7 12.0

Waste management and remediation services. . . . . . . . 31 26 6.8 5.5 6.6 5.4 7.5 6.0

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,098 935 4.9 4.2 4.8 4.3 5.0 4.1

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 230 6.0 4.9 5.5 5.8 6.3 4.5

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825 705 4.6 4.0 4.5 3.6 4.7 4.0

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 123 2.6 2.1 3.4 2.0 2.4 2.1

Health services, except hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490 421 5.0 4.4 4.8 4.1 5.0 4.5

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 161 8.0 6.9 7.1 7.2 8.2 6.9

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,379 1,168 10.0 8.6 9.9 8.5 10.1 8.7

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 212 9.3 8.4 10.3 9.5 8.2 7.2

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,133 956 10.1 8.6 9.8 8.2 10.4 9.1

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 127 9.3 7.9 8.5 5.7 9.9 9.5

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987 830 10.3 8.8 10.0 8.5 10.5 9.0

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 368 6.9 5.7 6.5 5.3 7.2 6.0

Other services, except private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 281 6.3 5.0 6.4 5.1 6.2 5.0

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

2013 2014

Total Men Women

2013 2014 2013 2014 2013 2014

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 104 7.7 5.9 7.6 5.9 9.0 5.9

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 108 6.5 5.9 6.2 7.0 6.7 5.4

Membership associations and organizations. . . . . . . . . . 95 69 4.8 3.5 4.4 2.4 5.1 4.3

Private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 88 10.7 9.7 11.0 15.9 10.7 9.1

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers2

. . . 141 146 10.1 9.4 8.5 8.0 15.4 14.1

Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851 678 4.0 3.2 4.0 3.4 4.0 3.2

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527 440 5.3 4.4 5.8 4.9 4.5 3.8

No previous work experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,247 1,086 – – – – – –

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 50,000).

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