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

2019 2020 2019 2020 2019 2020 2019 2020

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Total unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,159 9,090 1,251 2,304 280 894 1,248 3,018

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 2,005 6,968 541 1,634 116 695 588 2,324

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667 4,624 97 942 24 493 210 1,547

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,338 2,343 444 691 92 202 378 777

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946 1,869 281 511 65 152 231 580

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 474 163 180 27 50 147 197

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 476 165 126 41 39 140 124

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,205 1,306 414 445 79 115 373 417

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 341 131 100 44 45 147 153

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. . . 48.2 76.6 43.2 70.9 41.3 77.7 47.1 77.0

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.0 50.9 7.7 40.9 8.6 55.2 16.8 51.3

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.2 25.8 35.5 30.0 32.8 22.6 30.3 25.8

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.7 5.2 13.2 5.5 14.7 4.4 11.2 4.1

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.0 14.4 33.1 19.3 28.2 12.8 29.9 13.8

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1 3.7 10.5 4.3 15.8 5.0 11.8 5.1

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 1.6 5.6 2.6 8.1 1.1 6.7 2.0 8.0

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.4 0.4 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.2 0.8 1.1 1.3 1.4

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