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	Sept. 2017	Aug. 2018	Sept. 2018	Sept. 2017	May 2018	June 2018	July 2018	Aug. 2018	Sept. 2018
NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	2,992	2,885	2,474	3,316	2,854	3,065	3,017	2,875	2,796
On temporary layoff	568	893	507	891	803	906	890	872	820
Not on temporary layoff	2,424	1,992	1,967	2,425	2,052	2,159	2,127	2,003	1,975
Permanent job losers	1,742	1,337	1,238	1,728	1,439	1,486	1,455	1,345	1,248
Persons who completed temporary jobs	682	655	729	697	612	673	672	658	727
Job leavers	805	967	794	737	852	811	844	862	730
Reentrants	2,127	1,869	1,939	2,068	1,882	2,086	1,799	1,846	1,877
New entrants	631	649	559	663	571	578	591	584	586

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	45.6	45.3	42.9	48.9	46.3	46.9	48.3	46.6	46.7
On temporary layoff	8.7	14.0	8.8	13.1	13.0	13.9	14.2	14.1	13.7
Not on temporary layoff	37.0	31.3	34.1	35.8	33.3	33.0	34.0	32.5	33.0
Job leavers	12.3	15.2	13.8	10.9	13.8	12.4	13.5	14.0	12.2
Reentrants	32.4	29.3	33.6	30.5	30.6	31.9	28.8	29.9	31.3
New entrants	9.6	10.2	9.7	9.8	9.3	8.8	9.5	9.5	9.8

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	1.9	1.8	1.5	2.1	1.8	1.9	1.9	1.8	1.7
Job leavers	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Reentrants	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.2
New entrants	0.4	0.4	0.3	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: October 05, 2018

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey