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Table 8. Total displaced workers (1) by selected characteristics and employment status in January 2020

Table 8. Total displaced workers(1) by selected characteristics and employment status in January 2020
(Numbers in thousands)
Characteristic Total Percent distribution by employment status
Total Employed Unemployed Not in labor
force

Workers who lost jobs

Total, 20 years and over

 6,334 100.0 70.9 15.0 14.1

20 to 24 years

 670 100.0 75.1 11.8 13.1

25 to 54 years

 4,177 100.0 74.4 16.2 9.4

55 to 64 years

 1,142 100.0 64.8 13.3 21.9

65 years and over

 344 100.0 40.1 13.0 47.0

Men, 20 years and over

 3,412 100.0 71.4 15.8 12.8

20 to 24 years

 328 100.0 69.6 15.6 14.8

25 to 54 years

 2,276 100.0 75.0 16.3 8.7

55 to 64 years

 622 100.0 67.6 13.5 18.9

65 years and over

 186 100.0 43.0 17.7 39.3

Women, 20 years and over

 2,922 100.0 70.3 14.1 15.6

20 to 24 years

 341 100.0 80.3 8.2 11.5

25 to 54 years

 1,902 100.0 73.8 16.0 10.2

55 to 64 years

 520 100.0 61.4 13.0 25.5

65 years and over

 158 100.0 36.6 7.4 55.9

White

 4,813 100.0 72.0 12.6 15.3

Black or African American

 954 100.0 62.7 25.9 11.4

Asian

 304 100.0 71.6 22.4 6.0

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

 1,235 100.0 70.7 14.3 15.0

Reason for job loss

Plant or company closed down or moved

 2,275 100.0 70.5 13.4 16.1

Insufficient work

 2,260 100.0 71.3 16.1 12.5

Position or shift abolished

 1,798 100.0 70.8 15.7 13.5

Occupation of lost job(2)

Management, professional, and related occupations

 2,266 100.0 74.2 14.9 10.9

Management, business, and financial operations occupations

 1,252 100.0 72.4 18.2 9.4

Professional and related occupations

 1,014 100.0 76.4 10.8 12.8

Service occupations

 890 100.0 73.9 14.5 11.7

Sales and office occupations

 1,414 100.0 71.2 11.9 16.8

Sales and related occupations

 698 100.0 69.7 15.1 15.2

Office and administrative support occupations

 716 100.0 72.8 8.8 18.4

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations

 620 100.0 68.2 14.4 17.4

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

 14 100.0 - - -

Construction and extraction occupations

 420 100.0 72.6 13.3 14.1

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

 186 100.0 63.2 14.3 22.5

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations

 948 100.0 63.5 18.9 17.6

Production occupations

 508 100.0 59.8 19.1 21.1

Transportation and material moving occupations

 441 100.0 67.8 18.7 13.6

Industry and class of worker of lost job(2)

Agriculture and related industries wage and salary workers

 36 100.0 - - -

Nonagricultural industries wage and salary workers

 6,094 100.0 71.3 14.8 13.9

Private nonagricultural wage and salary workers

 5,842 100.0 70.9 15.2 13.9

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

 54 100.0 - - -

Construction

 544 100.0 68.3 19.2 12.5

Manufacturing

 908 100.0 63.6 18.2 18.2

Durable goods manufacturing

 576 100.0 62.0 21.0 17.0

Nondurable goods manufacturing

 332 100.0 66.3 13.3 20.3

Wholesale and retail trade

 1,045 100.0 70.5 12.5 17.0

Transportation and utilities

 194 100.0 78.3 14.5 7.2

Information

 202 100.0 80.1 7.9 12.0

Financial activities

 402 100.0 65.6 19.1 15.3

Professional and business services

 975 100.0 71.2 17.7 11.2

Education and health services

 632 100.0 76.5 10.7 12.8

Leisure and hospitality

 598 100.0 76.7 12.1 11.2

Other services

 268 100.0 70.3 20.4 9.4

Government wage and salary workers

 252 100.0 79.8 4.5 15.7

(1) Data refer to persons who had 3 or more years of tenure on a job they had lost or left between January 2017 and December 2019 because of plant or company closings or moves, insufficient work, or the abolishment of their positions or shifts.
(2) Total includes a small number of unpaid family workers and persons who did not report occupation, industry or class of worker of lost job, not shown separately.

NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Effective with January 2020 data, occupations reflect the introduction of the 2018 Census occupational classification system into the Current Population Survey. This classification system is derived from the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2020 are not strictly comparable with earlier years. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 75,000).

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Last Modified Date: August 27, 2020