Duration of Unemployment

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Duration of unemployment, seasonally adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
Month	Less than 5 weeks	5-14 weeks	15-26 weeks	27 weeks and over
May 1999	2,511	1,789	787	718
June 1999	2,521	1,773	812	812
July 1999	2,643	1,783	781	732
Aug 1999	2,546	1,824	748	706
Sept 1999	2,611	1,835	739	709
Oct 1999	2,536	1,847	713	724
Nov 1999	2,562	1,775	697	682
Dec 1999	2,642	1,614	696	680
Jan 2000	2,541	1,749	659	721
Feb 2000	2,604	1,912	671	629
Mar 2000	2,780	1,781	666	646
Apr 2000	2,510	1,845	662	599
May 2000	2,564	1,911	683	643
June 2000	2,579	1,753	616	627
July 2000	2,498	1,824	645	698
Aug 2000	2,550	1,893	685	709
Sept 2000	2,571	1,746	644	646
Oct 2000	2,497	1,724	710	627
Nov 2000	2,512	1,790	723	593
Dec 2000	2,477	1,825	687	642
Jan 2001	2,648	1,956	696	676
Feb 2001	2,851	1,764	777	714
Mar 2001	2,681	2,059	825	696
Apr 2001	2,972	1,990	787	712
May 2001	2,701	2,045	877	624
June 2001	2,808	2,025	822	710
July 2001	2,642	2,187	951	702
Aug 2001	2,966	2,187	1,004	857
Sept 2001	2,837	2,350	1,131	819
Oct 2001	3,111	2,531	1,173	909
Nov 2001	3,090	2,566	1,213	1,106
Dec 2001	3,037	2,797	1,318	1,126
Jan 2002	3,044	2,606	1,375	1,203
Feb 2002	2,984	2,577	1,394	1,214
Mar 2002	3,074	2,563	1,390	1,330
Apr 2002	2,932	2,872	1,395	1,457
May 2002	2,843	2,584	1,393	1,574
June 2002	2,711	2,654	1,382	1,641
July 2002	2,891	2,467	1,382	1,584
Aug 2002	2,927	2,525	1,313	1,573
Sept 2002	2,772	2,526	1,391	1,580
Oct 2002	2,765	2,512	1,388	1,653
Nov 2002	2,950	2,505	1,319	1,743
Dec 2002	2,838	2,589	1,347	1,924
Jan 2003	2,856	2,582	1,405	1,760
Feb 2003	2,798	2,611	1,297	1,864
Mar 2003	2,831	2,567	1,363	1,798
Apr 2003	2,794	2,661	1,421	1,927
May 2003	2,988	2,631	1,389	1,929
June 2003	2,906	2,745	1,453	2,100
July 2003	2,720	2,616	1,661	1,972
Aug 2003	2,801	2,625	1,561	1,995
Sept 2003	2,704	2,775	1,472	2,014
Oct 2003	2,710	2,593	1,492	1,959
Nov 2003	2,656	2,509	1,414	2,006
Dec 2003	2,554	2,455	1,435	1,931
Jan 2004	2,685	2,369	1,453	1,911
Feb 2004	2,425	2,436	1,392	1,856
Mar 2004	2,637	2,434	1,331	1,983
Apr 2004	2,780	2,400	1,166	1,805
May 2004	2,723	2,378	1,304	1,799
June 2004	2,677	2,387	1,284	1,847
July 2004	2,820	2,384	1,237	1,681
Aug 2004	2,660	2,563	1,206	1,640
Sept 2004	2,758	2,276	1,209	1,702
Oct 2004	2,732	2,303	1,304	1,737
Nov 2004	2,638	2,339	1,258	1,702
Dec 2004	2,768	2,268	1,274	1,653
Jan 2005	2,635	2,298	1,203	1,648
Feb 2005	2,749	2,345	1,268	1,628
Mar 2005	2,483	2,328	1,157	1,660
Apr 2005	2,688	2,289	1,069	1,609
May 2005	2,754	2,231	1,145	1,538
June 2005	2,659	2,361	1,030	1,375
July 2005	2,568	2,368	1,068	1,380
Aug 2005	2,570	2,304	1,161	1,407
Sept 2005	2,763	2,294	1,098	1,439
Oct 2005	2,719	2,296	1,070	1,422
Nov 2005	2,823	2,282	1,116	1,370
Dec 2005	2,588	2,249	1,073	1,356
Jan 2006	2,527	2,194	1,100	1,170
Feb 2006	2,577	2,088	1,195	1,350
Mar 2006	2,659	1,999	1,064	1,309
Apr 2006	2,665	2,142	1,022	1,331
May 2006	2,545	2,189	969	1,333
June 2006	2,705	2,076	982	1,145
July 2006	2,721	2,126	986	1,304
Aug 2006	2,603	2,246	987	1,306
Sept 2006	2,608	2,053	986	1,245
Oct 2006	2,616	2,103	984	1,078
Nov 2006	2,511	2,212	1,028	1,131
Dec 2006	2,596	2,047	990	1,093
Jan 2007	2,561	2,267	1,015	1,141
Feb 2007	2,574	2,168	962	1,249
Mar 2007	2,307	2,138	1,010	1,245
Apr 2007	2,456	2,178	1,075	1,206
May 2007	2,464	2,183	1,100	1,132
June 2007	2,551	2,134	1,138	1,143
July 2007	2,502	2,203	1,073	1,291
Aug 2007	2,614	2,156	1,086	1,246
Sept 2007	2,557	2,292	1,091	1,264
Oct 2007	2,545	2,502	1,003	1,298
Nov 2007	2,645	2,241	992	1,374
Dec 2007	2,718	2,376	1,177	1,324
Jan 2008	2,554	2,406	1,152	1,388
Feb 2008	2,653	2,370	1,116	1,329
Mar 2008	2,823	2,537	1,168	1,323
Apr 2008	2,493	2,574	1,314	1,372
May 2008	3,278	2,476	1,219	1,561
June 2008	2,753	3,016	1,337	1,576
July 2008	2,854	2,833	1,450	1,664
Aug 2008	3,256	2,758	1,554	1,866
Sept 2008	2,848	3,035	1,599	2,027
Oct 2008	3,170	3,055	1,710	2,280
Nov 2008	3,335	3,260	1,704	2,219
Dec 2008	3,255	3,498	1,936	2,610
Jan 2009	3,524	3,662	2,065	2,699
Feb 2009	3,450	3,936	2,456	2,999
Mar 2009	3,465	4,122	2,625	3,260
Apr 2009	3,338	4,138	2,634	3,752
May 2009	3,246	4,458	3,049	3,973
June 2009	3,114	4,052	3,488	4,349
July 2009	3,137	3,505	2,923	4,917
Aug 2009	2,940	3,927	2,791	5,037
Sept 2009	2,841	3,775	2,908	5,494
Oct 2009	3,223	3,552	3,006	5,643
Nov 2009	2,816	3,457	2,847	5,908
Dec 2009	2,879	3,457	2,712	6,122
Jan 2010	2,921	3,390	2,574	6,319
Feb 2010	2,807	3,390	2,793	6,129
Mar 2010	2,769	3,294	2,542	6,545
Apr 2010	2,725	3,086	2,330	6,800
May 2010	2,773	3,127	2,260	6,638
June 2010	2,683	3,159	2,284	6,623
July 2010	2,806	2,972	2,208	6,506
Aug 2010	2,671	3,534	2,162	6,259
Sept 2010	2,819	3,308	2,291	6,163
Oct 2010	2,655	3,345	2,387	6,227
Nov 2010	2,912	3,321	2,370	6,326
Dec 2010	2,693	3,169	2,120	6,429
Jan 2011	2,686	3,033	2,218	6,175
Feb 2011	2,469	3,118	2,284	5,892
Mar 2011	2,535	2,980	2,061	6,105
Apr 2011	2,787	2,987	2,090	5,925
May 2011	2,668	2,903	2,052	6,153
June 2011	2,933	2,987	1,871	6,271
July 2011	2,632	2,931	1,982	6,195
Aug 2011	2,650	2,989	2,199	6,048
Sept 2011	2,754	2,881	2,012	6,304
Oct 2011	2,668	3,250	1,964	5,838
Nov 2011	2,556	2,913	2,009	5,698
Dec 2011	2,678	2,873	1,959	5,586
Jan 2012	2,474	2,908	1,957	5,476
Feb 2012	2,610	2,848	2,051	5,242
Mar 2012	2,708	2,788	1,940	5,236
Apr 2012	2,624	2,878	1,940	5,132
May 2012	2,550	3,006	1,690	5,401
June 2012	2,747	2,806	1,817	5,409
July 2012	2,662	2,984	1,773	5,210
Aug 2012	2,784	2,811	1,846	5,042
Sept 2012	2,538	2,819	1,863	4,911
Oct 2012	2,635	2,859	1,796	4,988
Nov 2012	2,620	2,776	1,745	4,805
Dec 2012	2,756	2,901	1,861	4,768
Jan 2013	2,780	3,115	1,891	4,681
Feb 2013	2,713	2,799	1,766	4,691
Mar 2013	2,462	2,826	1,830	4,563
Apr 2013	2,487	2,908	1,953	4,468
May 2013	2,674	2,631	1,986	4,347
June 2013	2,680	2,851	1,876	4,355
July 2013	2,493	2,768	1,791	4,258
Aug 2013	2,475	2,688	1,677	4,296
Sept 2013	2,604	2,691	1,797	4,132
Oct 2013	2,823	2,639	1,737	4,024
Nov 2013	2,409	2,586	1,695	4,042
Dec 2013	2,328	2,545	1,676	3,863
Jan 2014	2,473	2,431	1,696	3,607
Feb 2014	2,376	2,590	1,621	3,783
Mar 2014	2,433	2,561	1,711	3,704
Apr 2014	2,424	2,377	1,502	3,479
May 2014	2,586	2,357	1,425	3,360
June 2014	2,417	2,427	1,503	3,116
July 2014	2,601	2,412	1,477	3,136
Aug 2014	2,620	2,389	1,506	2,958
Sept 2014	2,365	2,560	1,438	2,948
Oct 2014	2,494	2,300	1,400	2,892
Nov 2014	2,474	2,403	1,400	2,828
Dec 2014	2,370	2,320	1,270	2,799
Jan 2015	2,394	2,320	1,386	2,770
Feb 2015	2,403	2,239	1,335	2,657
Mar 2015	2,446	2,305	1,241	2,546
Apr 2015	2,709	2,351	1,092	2,558
May 2015	2,467	2,496	1,243	2,506
June 2015	2,309	2,396	1,394	2,165
July 2015	2,576	2,221	1,258	2,129
Aug 2015	2,073	2,316	1,286	2,169
Sept 2015	2,357	2,277	1,235	2,099
Oct 2015	2,369	2,283	1,210	2,134
Nov 2015	2,379	2,304	1,278	2,071
Dec 2015	2,396	2,198	1,236	2,125
Jan 2016	2,211	2,291	1,123	2,075
Feb 2016	2,236	2,223	1,145	2,141
Mar 2016	2,392	2,166	1,175	2,219
Apr 2016	2,602	2,111	1,250	2,101
May 2016	2,268	2,256	1,113	1,905
June 2016	2,386	2,186	1,148	2,020
July 2016	2,254	2,263	1,218	1,964
Aug 2016	2,297	2,307	1,083	1,978
Sept 2016	2,593	2,301	1,166	1,947
Oct 2016	2,442	2,283	1,170	1,968
Nov 2016	2,386	2,176	1,094	1,865
Dec 2016	2,355	2,132	1,199	1,866
Jan 2017	2,427	2,076	1,186	1,834
Feb 2017	2,507	2,128	1,049	1,772
Mar 2017	2,272	2,047	1,091	1,677
Apr 2017	2,332	2,076	1,067	1,650
May 2017	2,159	1,935	1,113	1,680
June 2017	2,269	1,943	934	1,708
July 2017	2,181	2,020	1,001	1,739
Aug 2017	2,202	2,028	1,065	1,722
Sept 2017	2,256	1,931	964	1,720
Oct 2017	2,162	1,957	866	1,628
Nov 2017	2,248	1,919	970	1,597
Dec 2017	2,230	1,984	892	1,511
Jan 2018	2,271	1,927	959	1,428
Feb 2018	2,458	1,900	933	1,403
Mar 2018	2,266	1,976	900	1,337
Apr 2018	2,121	1,975	1,018	1,311
May 2018	2,019	1,906	967	1,197
June 2018	2,218	1,865	862	1,467
July 2018	2,092	1,818	959	1,418
Aug 2018	2,199	1,722	927	1,320
Sept 2018	2,065	1,751	861	1,379
Oct 2018	2,062	1,845	859	1,370
Nov 2018	2,128	1,842	865	1,259
Dec 2018	2,126	2,027	897	1,306
Jan 2019	2,325	2,013	902	1,252
Feb 2019	2,194	1,810	942	1,271
Mar 2019	2,126	1,815	950	1,305
Apr 2019	1,904	1,842	854	1,230
May 2019	2,147	1,559	799	1,298