Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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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
	2017	2018	Total		Men		Women
	2017	2018	2017	2018	2017	2018	2017	2018
Total, 16 years and over(1)	6,982	6,314	4.4	3.9	4.4	3.9	4.3	3.8

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers(2)	5,323	4,798	4.2	3.7	4.2	3.8	4.2	3.7
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	31	27	4.1	3.4	4.0	3.5	4.8	3.2
Construction	559	494	6.0	5.1	6.0	5.2	6.0	4.2
Manufacturing	563	517	3.6	3.3	3.3	3.0	4.3	3.9
Durable goods	360	295	3.7	3.0	3.5	2.9	4.2	3.2
Nonmetallic mineral products	19	15	4.2	3.2	4.6	3.6	3.0	1.3
Primary metals and fabricated metal products	61	46	3.7	2.7	3.7	2.8	3.9	2.4
Machinery manufacturing	37	27	3.0	2.2	2.8	2.3	3.6	2.1
Computers and electronic products	38	41	3.3	3.6	2.6	3.7	4.8	3.3
Electrical equipment and appliances	12	18	2.8	4.3	3.0	3.2	2.3	6.5
Transportation equipment	89	77	3.6	3.0	3.4	2.7	4.4	4.0
Wood products	18	8	4.3	1.9	4.7	2.1	1.7	0.4
Furniture and related products	13	12	2.8	3.1	2.8	3.4	2.7	2.3
Miscellaneous manufacturing	74	50	4.7	3.2	4.4	3.2	5.2	3.3
Nondurable goods	203	222	3.5	3.8	3.1	3.3	4.3	4.8
Food manufacturing	91	90	4.9	4.8	4.8	4.3	5.0	5.5
Beverage and tobacco products	9	13	2.9	4.1	2.5	3.3	4.3	6.2
Textiles, apparel, and leather	23	31	3.6	5.4	4.0	5.6	3.3	5.2
Paper manufacturing and printing	20	19	2.2	2.2	1.6	2.1	3.6	2.4
Petroleum and coal products	13	9	6.6	4.3	6.6	3.5	-	-
Chemicals	36	42	2.7	2.9	1.6	2.2	4.7	4.1
Plastics and rubber products	12	18	2.2	3.4	2.0	2.9	2.8	4.9
Wholesale and retail trade	942	881	4.6	4.3	4.1	4.0	5.3	4.8
Wholesale trade	116	112	3.2	3.1	2.8	3.1	4.3	3.0
Retail trade	826	768	4.9	4.6	4.5	4.2	5.4	5.0
Transportation and utilities	271	236	4.1	3.4	3.7	3.2	5.2	3.8
Transportation and warehousing	244	218	4.4	3.6	4.1	3.6	5.3	3.9
Utilities	27	19	2.6	1.8	2.1	1.3	4.5	3.3
Information(3)	120	99	4.5	3.7	4.4	4.0	4.6	3.1
Publishing, except Internet	28	23	5.6	5.0	5.4	7.3	5.8	2.6
Motion pictures and sound recording industries	29	26	6.2	5.5	6.4	6.2	5.9	4.3
Radio and television broadcasting and cable subscription programming	17	15	3.0	2.7	3.2	2.5	2.8	3.1
Telecommunications	40	24	4.5	2.7	4.2	3.0	5.1	2.0
Libraries, archives, and other information services	2	3	2.5	3.2	-	-	-	4.0
Financial activities	240	215	2.4	2.2	2.7	2.3	2.2	2.0
Finance and insurance	163	139	2.3	1.9	2.6	1.9	2.1	1.9
Finance	107	92	2.4	2.1	2.9	2.0	2.0	2.1
Insurance	56	46	2.1	1.7	2.0	1.7	2.1	1.7
Real estate and rental and leasing	77	77	2.8	2.8	3.0	3.1	2.5	2.3
Real estate	57	60	2.4	2.5	2.6	2.7	2.3	2.3
Rental and leasing services	20	17	4.9	4.1	4.9	4.8	4.9	2.3
Professional and business services	775	671	4.5	3.9	4.3	3.7	4.9	4.2
Professional and technical services	305	256	2.8	2.3	2.5	2.1	3.2	2.7
Management, administrative, and waste services(3)	470	415	7.4	6.7	7.1	6.6	7.8	6.8
Administrative and support services	444	396	7.8	7.1	7.6	7.1	8.0	7.1
Waste management and remediation services	18	15	4.2	3.7	4.3	3.7	3.4	3.8
Education and health services	714	638	3.0	2.6	2.9	2.4	3.1	2.7
Educational services	171	174	3.5	3.4	3.5	3.0	3.5	3.6
Health care and social assistance	543	464	2.9	2.4	2.6	2.1	3.0	2.5
Hospitals	98	78	1.5	1.2	1.8	1.2	1.5	1.2
Health services, except hospitals	314	276	3.2	2.8	2.8	2.3	3.3	2.9
Social assistance	130	109	5.1	4.2	4.5	4.9	5.2	4.1
Leisure and hospitality	856	791	6.1	5.7	6.0	5.8	6.1	5.6
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	156	150	5.6	5.6	5.9	6.0	5.3	5.1
Accommodation and food services	700	640	6.2	5.7	6.1	5.7	6.3	5.7
Accommodation	90	80	5.8	5.3	5.0	4.9	6.4	5.7
Food services and drinking places	610	560	6.3	5.8	6.2	5.8	6.3	5.7
Other services	251	229	3.8	3.3	4.2	3.2	3.4	3.5
Other services, except private households	207	191	3.5	3.2	3.9	3.1	2.9	3.2
Repair and maintenance	80	65	4.3	3.5	4.4	3.2	4.0	5.6
Personal and laundry services	68	57	3.4	2.8	4.7	3.1	2.7	2.7
Membership associations and organizations	59	68	2.8	3.1	2.7	2.9	2.9	3.4
Private households	44	39	6.3	4.8	15.1	9.0	5.4	4.4

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers(2)	122	124	7.2	7.2	5.7	6.4	11.7	9.8

Government workers	527	505	2.5	2.3	2.4	2.3	2.5	2.4

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers	319	285	3.2	2.8	3.4	2.9	2.9	2.7

No previous work experience	690	602	-	-	-	-	-	-
Footnotes (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).

Last Modified Date: January 18, 2019