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	August 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	6,370	2,183	2,037	2,149	809	1,341	22.2	9.0
16 to 19 years	737	310	295	132	60	73	11.6	6.1
20 to 24 years	983	374	327	283	139	144	16.4	8.2
25 to 34 years	1,575	555	488	532	228	304	18.9	9.0
35 to 44 years	979	330	279	370	144	226	24.4	10.3
45 to 54 years	908	297	262	350	104	245	25.9	9.7
55 to 64 years	810	193	269	348	97	251	34.5	12.1
65 years and over	378	125	118	135	37	99	29.8	9.3

Men, 16 years and over	3,150	1,095	933	1,122	414	708	23.8	9.1
16 to 19 years	419	173	170	75	36	39	11.6	6.6
20 to 24 years	526	166	180	180	77	103	20.5	9.5
25 to 34 years	778	290	230	257	123	135	20.1	8.7
35 to 44 years	448	158	101	189	70	120	25.5	9.2
45 to 54 years	410	142	98	170	52	118	26.5	10.5
55 to 64 years	386	107	105	175	35	140	38.6	12.6
65 years and over	182	59	48	75	21	54	35.0	9.9

Women, 16 years and over	3,220	1,088	1,104	1,028	395	632	20.6	9.0
16 to 19 years	318	136	125	57	24	33	11.6	5.7
20 to 24 years	457	207	147	103	62	41	11.7	6.8
25 to 34 years	798	265	258	274	106	169	17.8	9.2
35 to 44 years	530	172	177	181	75	106	23.5	11.0
45 to 54 years	498	155	164	180	52	128	25.4	9.3
55 to 64 years	423	87	164	173	62	111	30.8	11.7
65 years and over	196	66	70	60	16	45	24.9	8.8

RACE AND HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY
White, 16 years and over	4,421	1,579	1,439	1,404	561	842	20.7	8.5
Men	2,197	793	661	743	280	463	22.8	8.6
Women	2,225	786	778	661	281	379	18.6	8.4
Black or African American, 16 years and over	1,338	425	393	520	170	350	24.8	10.2
Men	624	213	164	247	84	163	26.1	9.7
Women	715	212	229	273	86	187	23.7	10.7
Asian, 16 years and over	312	91	94	127	50	77	27.9	11.7
Men	162	45	50	66	30	36	25.8	11.6
Women	150	46	44	60	20	40	30.2	11.9
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 16 years and over	1,322	552	420	350	145	204	15.7	6.9
Men	628	256	226	146	48	98	15.6	6.8
Women	694	297	193	204	97	107	15.8	7.1

MARITAL STATUS
Men, 16 years and over
Married, spouse present(1)	883	300	251	332	114	219	24.3	9.5
Widowed, divorced, or separated(2)	410	140	100	170	43	127	30.1	10.3
Never married	1,857	656	582	619	257	363	22.1	8.6
Women, 16 years and over
Married, spouse present(1)	1,060	344	435	281	109	172	18.2	8.7
Widowed, divorced, or separated(2)	677	217	199	261	83	178	28.2	10.2
Never married	1,483	527	470	486	204	282	18.8	8.7
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: September 07, 2018

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

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