HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

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

[Percent distribution]

Reason, sex, and age

2016

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,751 100.0 30.5 28.7 40.8 14.9 25.9

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 3,740 100.0 32.9 28.8 38.4 15.1 23.3

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966 100.0 54.6 32.3 13.1 9.0 4.1

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,774 100.0 25.3 27.5 47.2 17.1 30.0

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,965 100.0 23.3 27.0 49.8 17.7 32.0

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809 100.0 30.2 28.9 40.9 15.7 25.2

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858 100.0 33.6 32.4 34.0 14.2 19.7

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,330 100.0 26.4 27.1 46.6 15.4 31.2

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823 100.0 28.0 29.3 42.7 14.0 28.7

Men, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,675 100.0 28.4 27.4 44.2 15.3 28.9

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 2,165 100.0 31.5 28.4 40.1 15.7 24.4

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537 100.0 52.5 32.4 15.1 10.7 4.4

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,628 100.0 24.6 27.1 48.3 17.3 31.0

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,148 100.0 22.5 25.9 51.6 17.9 33.6

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480 100.0 29.6 29.8 40.6 15.8 24.8

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 100.0 31.2 31.3 37.5 14.5 23.0

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936 100.0 22.5 24.6 52.9 14.8 38.1

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 100.0 15.9 22.1 62.0 14.9 47.1

Women, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,151 100.0 29.6 29.2 41.2 15.2 26.0

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,461 100.0 32.8 29.6 37.6 14.6 22.9

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 100.0 55.5 33.6 11.0 7.4 3.6

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,078 100.0 24.8 28.1 47.1 17.2 29.8

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780 100.0 23.2 28.4 48.4 17.8 30.6

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 100.0 29.1 27.3 43.6 15.7 27.8

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 100.0 32.6 33.6 33.8 14.9 18.8

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087 100.0 25.6 27.7 46.7 16.1 30.7

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 100.0 20.5 24.9 54.6 15.5 39.1

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925 100.0 41.7 32.4 25.9 12.7 13.2

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 113 100.0 58.3 26.1 15.6 8.6 6.9

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 100.0 72.1 20.4 7.5 3.8 3.7

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 100.0 49.2 29.9 20.9 11.8 9.1

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 100.0 48.1 29.5 22.4 10.4 12.1

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 100.0 – – – – –

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 100.0 59.0 31.3 9.7 7.3 2.4

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 100.0 40.8 32.5 26.7 14.7 12.0

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 100.0 36.1 34.1 29.9 13.0 16.9

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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