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Unemployed people by reason for unemployment, sex, age, and duration of unemployment

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HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES
29. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment, sex, age, and duration of unemployment[Percent distribution]
Reason, sex, and age	2025
	Total unemployed		Duration of unemployment
	Thousands of people	Percent	Less than 5 weeks	5 to 14 weeks	15 weeks and over
	Thousands of people	Percent	Less than 5 weeks	5 to 14 weeks	Total	15 to 26 weeks	27 weeks and over
Total, 16 years and over	7,314	100.0	32.2	29.4	38.4	15.2	23.2
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	3,443	100.0	34.8	30.8	34.3	15.0	19.3
On temporary layoff	910	100.0	56.7	30.7	12.6	8.8	3.7
Not on temporary layoff	2,534	100.0	27.0	30.9	42.1	17.2	24.9
Permanent job losers	1,887	100.0	25.1	30.5	44.3	18.0	26.4
People who completed temporary jobs	647	100.0	32.3	31.9	35.7	15.1	20.6
Job leavers	835	100.0	34.9	30.5	34.6	16.1	18.5
Reentrants	2,267	100.0	28.2	26.5	45.3	15.1	30.2
New entrants	770	100.0	29.6	30.1	40.3	15.5	24.8

Men, 20 years and over	3,463	100.0	29.9	28.6	41.5	15.4	26.1
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	1,965	100.0	33.5	30.6	36.0	15.0	20.9
On temporary layoff	504	100.0	53.5	31.8	14.7	10.7	4.0
Not on temporary layoff	1,461	100.0	26.6	30.1	43.3	16.5	26.8
Permanent job losers	1,088	100.0	24.6	29.5	45.9	17.3	28.6
People who completed temporary jobs	374	100.0	32.3	32.1	35.6	14.2	21.4
Job leavers	388	100.0	33.3	30.1	36.6	15.7	20.9
Reentrants	933	100.0	23.3	25.0	51.7	16.0	35.7
New entrants	177	100.0	18.2	22.1	59.7	15.6	44.1

Women, 20 years and over	2,947	100.0	32.0	29.1	38.9	15.7	23.3
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	1,366	100.0	35.1	31.3	33.6	15.6	18.1
On temporary layoff	352	100.0	59.1	30.5	10.4	6.9	3.6
Not on temporary layoff	1,014	100.0	26.8	31.5	41.7	18.6	23.1
Permanent job losers	765	100.0	25.2	32.0	42.8	19.1	23.7
People who completed temporary jobs	249	100.0	31.6	30.0	38.3	17.0	21.4
Job leavers	402	100.0	34.8	29.7	35.5	17.5	18.0
Reentrants	1,012	100.0	28.0	26.4	45.6	14.9	30.7
New entrants	168	100.0	23.6	26.4	50.0	16.7	33.3

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years	905	100.0	41.7	33.5	24.8	13.0	11.8
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	112	100.0	55.3	30.8	13.9	8.2	5.7
On temporary layoff	54	100.0	71.2	22.5	6.3	4.0	2.3
Not on temporary layoff	58	100.0	40.6	38.4	21.0	12.1	8.8
Permanent job losers	35	100.0	41.3	30.5	28.1	13.7	14.4
People who completed temporary jobs	24	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Job leavers	45	100.0	49.5	42.5	8.0	5.9	2.1
Reentrants	322	100.0	42.6	31.3	26.1	13.0	13.1
New entrants	425	100.0	36.6	34.9	28.5	15.0	13.5
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 35,000). 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