A-36. Unemployed persons by age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, marital status, and duration of unemployment

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A-36. Unemployed persons by age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, marital status, and duration of unemployment [Numbers in thousands]
Age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and marital status	November 2018
	Unemployed						Weeks of unemployment
	Total	Less than 5 weeks	5 to 14 weeks	15 weeks and over			Average (mean) duration	Median duration
	Total	Less than 5 weeks	5 to 14 weeks	Total	15 to 26 weeks	27 weeks and over	Average (mean) duration	Median duration
AGE AND SEX
Total, 16 years and over	5,650	1,974	1,670	2,005	817	1,188	22.7	8.9
16 to 19 years	672	345	192	135	92	43	9.1	4.4
20 to 24 years	890	321	326	243	127	116	15.4	8.3
25 to 34 years	1,309	458	386	466	188	277	20.7	8.6
35 to 44 years	929	300	289	340	162	178	20.6	8.9
45 to 54 years	804	218	213	373	101	272	34.6	12.7
55 to 64 years	742	222	195	324	102	222	32.8	11.3
65 years and over	304	111	68	125	44	81	32.7	11.6

Men, 16 years and over	2,941	1,008	842	1,091	414	677	24.3	9.1
16 to 19 years	345	160	113	72	46	26	9.9	6.1
20 to 24 years	499	168	177	154	70	85	17.6	8.5
25 to 34 years	609	212	161	236	101	135	22.4	9.0
35 to 44 years	490	161	143	186	67	119	22.7	8.7
45 to 54 years	414	120	99	195	48	147	37.8	13.0
55 to 64 years	420	130	116	174	59	115	31.9	10.1
65 years and over	163	58	32	73	23	50	34.2	13.3

Women, 16 years and over	2,709	966	829	914	403	512	20.9	8.6
16 to 19 years	327	185	79	63	46	17	8.3	3.8
20 to 24 years	391	153	150	89	58	31	12.6	7.9
25 to 34 years	700	245	225	230	88	142	19.1	8.4
35 to 44 years	439	139	145	154	95	59	18.3	9.1
45 to 54 years	389	98	114	177	53	124	31.2	12.4
55 to 64 years	322	92	79	150	43	107	33.9	12.9
65 years and over	141	53	36	52	21	31	31.0	6.8

RACE AND HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY
White, 16 years and over	3,918	1,444	1,161	1,312	556	756	21.7	8.3
Men	2,064	761	599	704	290	413	22.5	8.4
Women	1,854	683	562	608	265	343	20.8	8.2
Black or African American, 16 years and over	1,179	328	378	473	137	337	25.5	10.9
Men	595	148	174	272	59	212	29.4	12.0
Women	584	179	203	201	77	124	21.5	10.3
Asian, 16 years and over	282	98	72	112	58	54	28.8	9.3
Men	145	40	35	71	39	31	37.3	13.7
Women	137	58	37	41	19	23	19.8	6.1
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 16 years and over	1,269	476	370	423	183	240	20.2	8.0
Men	652	253	153	246	95	151	22.0	8.6
Women	616	223	217	177	87	89	18.4	7.5

MARITAL STATUS
Men, 16 years and over
Married, spouse present(1)	850	308	219	323	121	202	25.4	8.1
Widowed, divorced, or separated(2)	461	150	137	175	49	126	30.6	10.0
Never married	1,629	550	486	592	244	348	22.0	9.2
Women, 16 years and over
Married, spouse present(1)	807	266	235	306	124	182	22.8	8.9
Widowed, divorced, or separated(2)	583	169	195	218	99	119	25.6	10.0
Never married	1,320	531	399	390	179	210	17.6	7.8
Footnotes (1) Refers to persons in opposite-sex married couples only. (2) Separated includes persons who are married, spouse absent.
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Last Modified Date: December 07, 2018

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

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