HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

26. Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex

[Numbers in thousands]

Industry and class of worker

Total unemployed Unemployment rates

2015 2016

Total Men Women

2015 2016 2015 2016 2015 2016

Total, 16 years and over1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,296 7,751 5.3 4.9 5.4 4.9 5.2 4.8

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers2

. . . . . . . . . . . 6,299 5,824 5.1 4.6 5.1 4.7 5.1 4.6

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 67 8.6 8.0 9.1 8.3 5.4 5.6

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 558 7.3 6.3 7.5 6.4 5.4 4.6

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 667 4.3 4.3 4.0 4.0 5.1 4.8

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 412 4.1 4.2 3.8 4.2 5.2 4.2

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 20 3.6 4.5 3.1 4.4 6.1 4.6

Primary metals and fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . 74 67 4.2 4.0 4.2 3.9 4.3 4.4

Machinery manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 49 3.7 4.0 3.7 4.2 3.9 3.5

Computers and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 50 4.6 4.0 4.1 4.1 5.6 3.8

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 16 5.1 4.0 3.6 4.4 8.2 3.1

Transportation equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 100 3.4 4.0 3.2 4.1 3.8 3.9

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 30 4.7 6.9 4.1 7.4 9.0 4.0

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 16 4.9 3.6 4.5 4.2 6.1 2.1

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 65 4.9 4.2 4.1 3.4 6.4 5.7

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 255 4.6 4.4 4.4 3.8 5.1 5.4

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 99 5.7 5.4 5.7 5.0 5.6 6.1

Beverage and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 12 3.2 3.6 3.8 3.3 2.0 4.6

Textiles, apparel, and leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 28 6.9 4.4 6.5 2.8 7.2 5.7

Paper manufacturing and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 34 4.5 3.7 3.6 3.1 6.7 5.3

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 15 2.5 8.0 3.0 5.9 – –

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 44 3.1 3.3 3.1 3.3 3.1 3.2

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 23 4.2 3.9 4.2 3.1 4.3 6.1

Wholesale and retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,135 1,009 5.5 5.0 5.0 4.6 6.1 5.5

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 129 3.8 3.6 3.4 3.4 4.5 4.0

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999 880 5.9 5.3 5.5 4.9 6.4 5.7

Transportation and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 278 4.4 4.2 3.8 4.1 6.4 4.7

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 246 4.8 4.4 4.2 4.3 6.7 4.8

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 32 2.2 3.1 1.3 2.8 4.9 4.1

Information3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 123 3.9 4.6 3.3 4.3 4.8 5.0

Publishing, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 28 4.2 5.6 2.6 5.3 5.9 5.8

Motion pictures and sound recording industries. . . . . . . . . 22 31 5.6 7.3 6.3 5.6 4.5 9.6

Radio and television broadcasting and cable

subscription programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 26 3.3 4.5 3.0 4.8 4.1 3.9

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 29 3.1 3.3 2.9 3.2 3.4 3.4

Libraries, archives, and other information services. . . . . . 3 2 3.5 2.2 1.7 – 5.2 –

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 266 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.8

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 168 2.3 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.5

Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 103 2.5 2.4 2.2 2.0 2.6 2.7

Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 65 2.1 2.5 2.4 2.8 2.0 2.3

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 97 3.3 3.6 3.5 3.3 3.0 3.9

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 78 2.9 3.4 3.0 2.8 2.7 4.0

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 20 5.8 4.8 5.4 5.4 6.7 3.4

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894 842 5.6 5.1 5.5 4.9 5.8 5.3

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 283 3.2 2.8 2.9 2.5 3.7 3.2

Management, administrative, and waste services3

. . . . . . 583 559 9.3 8.6 9.3 8.5 9.2 8.8

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 533 9.8 9.1 9.8 9.2 9.7 9.1

Waste management and remediation services. . . . . . . . 28 19 5.7 3.9 6.4 3.7 2.7 4.8

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823 772 3.6 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.7 3.3

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 195 4.4 4.1 4.5 4.3 4.4 3.9

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610 577 3.4 3.1 2.8 2.7 3.5 3.2

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 98 1.8 1.5 1.7 1.6 1.9 1.5

Health services, except hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 351 3.8 3.6 2.9 2.9 4.0 3.8

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 129 5.7 5.1 6.3 5.7 5.6 4.9

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,092 949 7.9 6.8 7.8 6.6 8.0 6.9

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 165 7.4 6.3 7.8 6.7 6.9 5.9

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902 784 8.0 6.9 7.8 6.5 8.2 7.1

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 107 7.2 6.5 5.5 5.4 8.5 7.3

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782 677 8.2 6.9 8.2 6.7 8.2 7.1

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 293 5.2 4.4 4.9 4.0 5.4 4.8

Other services, except private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 226 4.6 3.9 4.7 3.7 4.4 4.0

See footnotes at end of table.

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HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

26. Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Industry and class of worker

Total unemployed Unemployment rates

2015 2016

Total Men Women

2015 2016 2015 2016 2015 2016

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 85 6.5 4.8 6.4 4.6 7.1 6.3

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 69 4.6 3.6 3.1 2.9 5.3 3.9

Membership associations and organizations. . . . . . . . . . 59 71 2.9 3.3 2.7 2.6 3.0 3.9

Private households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 67 9.1 8.5 13.1 15.1 8.8 7.8

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers2

. . . 155 139 9.4 8.3 8.7 7.5 11.7 11.0

Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 582 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.7

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 383 3.9 3.8 4.0 3.9 3.7 3.7

No previous work experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879 823 – – – – – –

1

Includes a small number of persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces.

2

Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.

3

Includes other industries, not shown separately.

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 50,000).

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