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	September 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	5,766	100.0	35.4	27.2	37.4	13.7	23.7
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	2,474	100.0	38.8	25.5	35.7	12.9	22.7
On temporary layoff	507	100.0	69.1	19.9	10.9	6.5	4.4
Not on temporary layoff	1,967	100.0	31.0	27.0	42.0	14.6	27.4
Permanent job losers	1,238	100.0	28.3	28.5	43.2	16.3	26.9
Persons who completed temporary jobs	729	100.0	35.6	24.4	40.1	11.7	28.4
Job leavers	794	100.0	40.4	31.1	28.5	10.2	18.2
Reentrants	1,939	100.0	30.8	26.9	42.3	14.6	27.7
New entrants	559	100.0	29.4	29.7	40.9	19.1	21.8

Men, 20 years and over	2,658	100.0	35.4	24.9	39.7	14.1	25.6
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	1,430	100.0	38.4	24.9	36.6	13.4	23.2
On temporary layoff	280	100.0	66.1	22.9	11.0	4.6	6.5
Not on temporary layoff	1,150	100.0	31.7	25.4	42.9	15.6	27.3
Permanent job losers	709	100.0	30.7	25.8	43.5	17.0	26.5
Persons who completed temporary jobs	441	100.0	33.3	24.8	41.9	13.4	28.5
Job leavers	364	100.0	43.6	27.4	29.0	11.7	17.3
Reentrants	738	100.0	27.8	23.6	48.6	15.8	32.8
New entrants	126	100.0	21.7	25.1	53.2	19.3	33.9

Women, 20 years and over	2,422	100.0	31.1	28.7	40.2	14.3	25.9
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	960	100.0	35.6	27.4	37.0	13.3	23.6
On temporary layoff	195	100.0	68.4	19.0	12.6	10.4	2.2
Not on temporary layoff	765	100.0	27.2	29.6	43.2	14.1	29.1
Permanent job losers	508	100.0	24.2	31.3	44.5	16.0	28.5
Persons who completed temporary jobs	257	100.0	33.3	26.1	40.6	10.3	30.3
Job leavers	350	100.0	31.3	35.8	32.9	9.7	23.1
Reentrants	968	100.0	26.7	29.2	44.1	15.7	28.4
New entrants	144	100.0	30.2	16.9	52.9	23.1	29.8

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years	686	100.0	50.9	30.4	18.7	9.8	8.9
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	84	100.0	81.5	14.3	4.2	0.0	4.2
On temporary layoff	32	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Not on temporary layoff	52	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Permanent job losers	20	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Persons who completed temporary jobs	31	100.0	-	-	-	-	-
Job leavers	79	100.0	66.0	27.3	6.7	5.7	1.0
Reentrants	234	100.0	57.9	27.6	14.5	5.9	8.7
New entrants	290	100.0	32.3	38.1	29.6	17.0	12.6
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: October 05, 2018

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

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