HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

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

[Percent distribution]

Reason, sex, and age

2018

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,314 100.0 34.4 29.7 35.9 14.5 21.4

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 2,990 100.0 36.6 30.0 33.5 14.8 18.7

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852 100.0 56.9 30.5 12.6 9.0 3.6

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,138 100.0 28.4 29.7 41.8 17.1 24.7

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,455 100.0 26.4 29.7 43.9 17.5 26.4

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683 100.0 32.8 29.8 37.4 16.3 21.0

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794 100.0 37.9 32.7 29.4 13.4 16.0

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,928 100.0 29.7 27.7 42.6 14.7 27.9

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 100.0 33.8 31.2 35.1 14.1 21.0

Men, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,976 100.0 31.7 29.0 39.4 15.9 23.5

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,706 100.0 34.3 29.9 35.8 16.2 19.6

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 100.0 54.0 30.9 15.1 10.6 4.4

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,234 100.0 26.8 29.5 43.7 18.3 25.4

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826 100.0 24.5 29.3 46.2 18.8 27.4

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 100.0 31.4 29.9 38.7 17.4 21.4

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 100.0 37.9 31.1 31.1 13.0 18.0

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759 100.0 23.7 26.7 49.7 16.7 32.9

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 100.0 25.2 24.5 50.3 14.4 35.9

Women, 20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,578 100.0 33.7 29.7 36.5 14.0 22.5

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 1,173 100.0 37.8 30.2 32.0 13.1 18.9

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 100.0 59.6 30.8 9.6 6.7 3.0

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841 100.0 29.2 30.0 40.8 15.7 25.1

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 100.0 27.4 30.2 42.4 16.0 26.4

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 100.0 33.6 29.4 37.0 15.0 22.0

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 100.0 35.2 34.5 30.3 14.3 15.9

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912 100.0 29.2 26.9 44.0 14.8 29.2

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 100.0 25.2 32.6 42.2 15.5 26.7

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759 100.0 47.2 32.5 20.4 11.1 9.3

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . 111 100.0 57.7 28.3 14.0 10.8 3.2

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 100.0 67.1 24.4 8.5 8.5 0.0

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 100.0 50.4 31.4 18.2 12.6 5.6

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 100.0 – – – – –

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 100.0 – – – – –

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 100.0 57.3 32.2 10.5 9.2 1.2

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 100.0 49.6 33.4 17.0 8.4 8.6

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 100.0 40.4 33.2 26.5 13.5 13.0

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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