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Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

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HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES
27. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment, sex, and age
[Numbers in thousands]
Reason Total,
16 years
and over
Men,
20 years
and over
Women,
20 years
and over
Both sexes,
16 to 19
years
2024 2025 2024 2025 2024 2025 2024 2025

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Total unemployed

6,761 7,314 3,206 3,463 2,731 2,947 823 905

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

3,253 3,443 1,835 1,965 1,291 1,366 126 112

On temporary layoff

859 910 481 504 326 352 52 54

Not on temporary layoff

2,393 2,534 1,354 1,461 965 1,014 74 58

Permanent job losers

1,716 1,887 963 1,088 713 765 41 35

People who completed temporary jobs

677 647 392 374 253 249 33 24

Job leavers

810 835 380 388 378 402 52 45

Reentrants

2,052 2,267 828 933 923 1,012 302 322

New entrants

647 770 164 177 139 168 344 425

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Total unemployed

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

48.1 47.1 57.2 56.8 47.3 46.3 15.3 12.4

On temporary layoff

12.7 12.4 15.0 14.5 11.9 11.9 6.4 6.0

Not on temporary layoff

35.4 34.6 42.2 42.2 35.3 34.4 8.9 6.4

Job leavers

12.0 11.4 11.8 11.2 13.8 13.6 6.3 5.0

Reentrants

30.4 31.0 25.8 26.9 33.8 34.3 36.7 35.6

New entrants

9.6 10.5 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.7 41.8 47.0

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE
CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

1.9 2.0 2.1 2.3 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.7

Job leavers

0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.8 0.7

Reentrants

1.2 1.3 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 4.7 5.0

New entrants

0.4 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 5.3 6.6

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. (Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown.) As a result, 2025 annual estimates are not strictly comparable with annual averages for other years.

 

Last Modified Date: February 20, 2026