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

2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Total unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,915 8,033 2,544 2,429 483 448 2,514 2,257

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 5,094 4,412 1,270 1,189 246 209 1,390 1,205

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977 925 138 144 28 24 272 243

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,117 3,488 1,131 1,045 218 186 1,118 962

Permanent job losers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,255 2,662 835 748 186 150 814 681

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862 826 296 296 32 36 304 281

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729 701 156 151 34 30 164 148

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,247 2,124 789 772 137 142 649 609

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845 796 329 317 67 66 312 295

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. . . 57.1 54.9 49.9 49.0 50.9 46.8 55.3 53.4

On temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.0 11.5 5.4 5.9 5.7 5.3 10.8 10.8

Not on temporary layoff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.2 43.4 44.5 43.0 45.1 41.5 44.5 42.6

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 8.7 6.1 6.2 7.0 6.8 6.5 6.6

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.2 26.4 31.0 31.8 28.3 31.6 25.8 27.0

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5 9.9 12.9 13.0 13.9 14.8 12.4 13.1

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs. . . 4.1 3.6 6.9 6.4 3.0 2.4 5.7 4.9

Job leavers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.6 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.7 0.6

Reentrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 1.7 4.3 4.2 1.7 1.7 2.7 2.5

New entrants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.7 0.6 1.8 1.7 0.8 0.8 1.3 1.2

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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