Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment [Numbers in thousands]
Reason	Not seasonally adjusted			Seasonally adjusted
Reason	Aug. 2017	July 2018	Aug. 2018	Aug. 2017	Apr. 2018	May 2018	June 2018	July 2018	Aug. 2018
NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	3,536	3,164	2,885	3,497	2,958	2,854	3,065	3,017	2,875
On temporary layoff	1,051	1,080	893	1,030	862	803	906	890	872
Not on temporary layoff	2,485	2,084	1,992	2,467	2,096	2,052	2,159	2,127	2,003
Permanent job losers	1,788	1,438	1,337	1,777	1,418	1,439	1,486	1,455	1,345
Persons who completed temporary jobs	697	646	655	690	678	612	673	672	658
Job leavers	874	869	967	790	815	852	811	844	862
Reentrants	2,151	1,893	1,869	2,137	2,009	1,882	2,086	1,799	1,846
New entrants	725	803	649	653	623	571	578	591	584

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	48.5	47.0	45.3	49.4	46.2	46.3	46.9	48.3	46.6
On temporary layoff	14.4	16.0	14.0	14.6	13.5	13.0	13.9	14.2	14.1
Not on temporary layoff	34.1	31.0	31.3	34.9	32.7	33.3	33.0	34.0	32.5
Job leavers	12.0	12.9	15.2	11.2	12.7	13.8	12.4	13.5	14.0
Reentrants	29.5	28.1	29.3	30.2	31.4	30.6	31.9	28.8	29.9
New entrants	10.0	11.9	10.2	9.2	9.7	9.3	8.8	9.5	9.5

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	2.2	1.9	1.8	2.2	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.9	1.8
Job leavers	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Reentrants	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.1	1.1
New entrants	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Last Modified Date: September 07, 2018

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey