A-34. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment, sex, age, and duration of unemployment

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A-34. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment, sex, age, and duration of unemployment [Percent distribution]
Reason, sex, and age	December 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	7,003	100.0	30.9	26.4	42.7	16.1	26.6
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	3,439	100.0	40.2	25.9	33.9	14.1	19.8
On temporary layoff	1,000	100.0	72.0	18.9	9.1	7.0	2.1
Not on temporary layoff	2,439	100.0	27.2	28.8	44.0	17.0	27.0
Permanent job losers	1,866	100.0	24.1	29.0	46.9	19.7	27.3
People who completed temporary jobs	572	100.0	37.3	28.3	34.5	8.2	26.3
Job leavers	781	100.0	29.7	30.1	40.2	18.3	21.9
Reentrants	2,047	100.0	20.2	26.4	53.4	15.4	37.9
New entrants	736	100.0	19.0	24.4	56.6	25.0	31.6

Men, 20 years and over	3,377	100.0	33.7	23.2	43.1	13.3	29.7
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	2,050	100.0	43.2	22.8	34.0	12.6	21.4
On temporary layoff	621	100.0	74.2	18.7	7.1	6.3	0.8
Not on temporary layoff	1,429	100.0	29.8	24.6	45.7	15.3	30.4
Permanent job losers	1,109	100.0	25.6	24.6	49.8	17.8	32.1
People who completed temporary jobs	319	100.0	44.2	24.7	31.1	6.8	24.4
Job leavers	314	100.0	29.8	27.1	43.1	12.6	30.5
Reentrants	826	100.0	16.0	25.5	58.4	13.9	44.6
New entrants	188	100.0	13.9	11.6	74.5	20.2	54.3

Women, 20 years and over	2,787	100.0	25.9	28.9	45.1	18.3	26.8
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	1,264	100.0	33.3	30.5	36.1	17.5	18.7
On temporary layoff	312	100.0	65.9	19.1	15.0	9.8	5.2
Not on temporary layoff	952	100.0	22.6	34.3	43.1	20.0	23.1
Permanent job losers	728	100.0	21.9	35.2	42.9	22.6	20.2
People who completed temporary jobs	224	100.0	25.0	31.3	43.7	11.3	32.4
Job leavers	419	100.0	26.5	32.2	41.3	23.4	17.9
Reentrants	947	100.0	17.7	25.3	57.0	16.4	40.6
New entrants	157	100.0	14.9	29.3	55.8	22.9	32.9

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years	839	100.0	36.5	30.6	33.0	20.1	12.9
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	125	100.0	60.1	31.0	9.0	4.4	4.5
On temporary layoff	67	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Not on temporary layoff	58	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Permanent job losers	29	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
People who completed temporary jobs	29	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Job leavers	48	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Reentrants	274	100.0	41.3	33.0	25.7	17.0	8.6
New entrants	391	100.0	23.1	28.6	48.3	28.2	20.1
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 75,000).

Last Modified Date: January 09, 2026