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

2022 2023 2022 2023 2022 2023 2022 2023

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Total unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,049 4,162 1,300 1,212 306 344 1,302 1,475

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 1,927 2,011 592 555 119 147 623 726

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667 652 105 97 26 26 219 241

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,260 1,359 486 458 93 121 404 485

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901 991 322 312 71 95 270 325

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 368 164 146 22 26 134 159

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 576 173 149 40 44 155 155

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,229 1,200 425 405 104 109 385 412

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 375 110 103 43 44 139 181

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. . . 47.6 48.3 45.5 45.8 39.1 42.7 47.8 49.2

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.5 15.7 8.1 8.0 8.6 7.4 16.8 16.4

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1 32.7 37.4 37.8 30.5 35.2 31.1 32.9

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.7 13.8 13.3 12.3 13.0 12.9 11.9 10.5

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.4 28.8 32.7 33.5 33.9 31.6 29.6 27.9

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3 9.0 8.5 8.5 14.0 12.9 10.6 12.3

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 1.5 1.6 2.8 2.5 1.1 1.3 2.0 2.3

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.5 0.5 0.8 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0 0.9 2.0 1.9 0.9 0.9 1.3 1.3

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6

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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