Table 2. Unemployment insurance (UI) benefit applicants and recipients among unemployed persons who had worked in the past 12 months by characteristics of last job, 2022

Table 2. Unemployment insurance (UI) benefit applicants and recipients among unemployed persons who had worked in the past 12 months by characteristics of last job, 2022
[Numbers in thousands]
Characteristic	Unemployed who worked in the past 12 months (1)	UI benefit applicants					Did not apply for UI benefits
		Total	Percent of unemployed	UI benefit recipients
		Total	Percent of unemployed	Total	Percent of UI benefit applicants	Percent of unemployed
Total, 16 years and over	4,149	1,075	25.9	591	55.0	14.2	2,998
Union status on last job (2)
Union member or represented by a union	269	153	57.0	124	80.7	45.9	113
Nonunion	3,757	902	24.0	454	50.3	12.1	2,827
Occupation of last job (3)
Management, professional, and related occupations	904	229	25.4	133	57.8	14.7	665
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	372	144	38.6	73	50.9	19.6	228
Professional and related occupations	532	86	16.1	59	69.3	11.2	437
Service occupations	879	197	22.4	112	57.1	12.8	658
Sales and office occupations	916	264	28.8	126	47.7	13.7	644
Sales and related occupations	416	106	25.4	53	49.9	12.7	307
Office and administrative support occupations	500	158	31.7	73	46.2	14.6	336
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	591	220	37.1	132	59.9	22.3	365
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	67	21	-	13	-	-	46
Construction and extraction occupations	456	178	39.0	111	62.1	24.2	271
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	68	21	-	9	-	-	48
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	853	165	19.3	88	53.6	10.4	660
Production occupations	308	65	21.3	29	-	9.5	239
Transportation and material moving occupations	545	99	18.2	59	59.6	10.9	420
Industry of last job (3)
Agriculture and related industries	86	25	29.0	17	-	19.6	61
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	23	12	-	7	-	-	10
Construction	513	192	37.5	124	64.7	24.3	314
Manufacturing	383	148	38.5	79	53.6	20.6	236
Wholesale and retail trade	621	136	21.9	72	52.8	11.5	469
Transportation and utilities	319	82	25.7	43	52.6	13.5	229
Information	51	13	-	4	-	-	36
Financial activities	159	44	27.8	15	-	9.3	114
Professional and business services	586	151	25.7	92	61.3	15.7	424
Education and health services	562	95	17.0	46	48.5	8.2	463
Leisure and hospitality	589	109	18.6	56	51.6	9.6	467
Other services	154	32	20.8	25	-	16.3	111
Public administration	97	35	36.2	10	-	10.5	58
(1) Includes a relatively small number of persons who did not provide information about applying for UI benefits, not shown separately. (2) Refers to union members and those covered by a union contract on their last job. Data do not sum to total because some individuals did not respond to the question about union membership. (3) Persons whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total, but not shown separately.
NOTE: Estimates are an average of data collected in February and May 2022. Data exclude unemployed persons with no previous work experience and those who last worked more than 12 months prior to the survey. However, all unemployed persons expecting to be recalled from temporary layoff are included, regardless of whether they worked in the 12 months prior to the survey. 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: March 29, 2023