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

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A-34. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment, sex, age, and duration of unemployment [Percent distribution]
Reason, sex, and age	December 2018
	Total unemployed		Duration of unemployment
	Thousands of persons	Percent	Less than 5 weeks	5 to 14 weeks	15 weeks and over
	Thousands of persons	Percent	Less than 5 weeks	5 to 14 weeks	Total	15 to 26 weeks	27 weeks and over
Total, 16 years and over	6,029	100.0	34.0	31.5	34.5	14.2	20.2
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	2,947	100.0	39.5	30.6	29.9	12.8	17.1
On temporary layoff	834	100.0	68.8	23.0	8.3	5.1	3.1
Not on temporary layoff	2,113	100.0	27.9	33.6	38.5	15.9	22.6
Permanent job losers	1,415	100.0	27.7	30.2	42.0	16.0	26.1
Persons who completed temporary jobs	698	100.0	28.3	40.4	31.4	15.7	15.7
Job leavers	775	100.0	33.1	38.2	28.7	12.4	16.3
Reentrants	1,810	100.0	27.7	31.6	40.7	16.1	24.6
New entrants	496	100.0	26.1	26.5	47.4	18.5	28.9

Men, 20 years and over	3,066	100.0	34.5	32.1	33.4	14.4	19.0
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	1,820	100.0	39.6	31.3	29.1	12.5	16.6
On temporary layoff	553	100.0	69.7	21.9	8.4	4.6	3.8
Not on temporary layoff	1,266	100.0	26.5	35.4	38.1	15.9	22.2
Permanent job losers	819	100.0	27.1	31.8	41.1	15.4	25.7
Persons who completed temporary jobs	448	100.0	25.4	41.9	32.8	16.9	15.9
Job leavers	416	100.0	32.2	38.0	29.8	12.4	17.5
Reentrants	693	100.0	26.5	32.0	41.6	19.6	22.0
New entrants	137	100.0	14.9	25.0	60.1	19.6	40.5

Women, 20 years and over	2,345	100.0	31.9	30.0	38.1	13.4	24.7
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	1,016	100.0	38.1	29.1	32.9	13.8	19.1
On temporary layoff	240	100.0	68.2	24.3	7.5	5.4	2.2
Not on temporary layoff	776	100.0	28.8	30.5	40.7	16.4	24.3
Permanent job losers	548	100.0	25.9	28.6	45.5	17.0	28.5
Persons who completed temporary jobs	228	100.0	35.5	35.2	29.2	15.0	14.3
Job leavers	312	100.0	33.1	37.5	29.5	12.3	17.1
Reentrants	879	100.0	25.7	29.4	44.9	13.6	31.3
New entrants	138	100.0	23.3	23.9	52.8	12.2	40.6

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years	619	100.0	39.2	34.7	26.0	16.6	9.4
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	111	100.0	49.2	33.2	17.6	10.1	7.4
On temporary layoff	40	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Not on temporary layoff	71	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Permanent job losers	49	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Persons who completed temporary jobs	22	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Job leavers	48	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Reentrants	238	100.0	38.4	38.6	23.0	15.5	7.5
New entrants	221	100.0	34.7	29.1	36.2	21.8	14.5
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 04, 2019

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

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