Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment, sex, and age

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

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HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES
27. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment, sex, and age [Numbers in thousands]
Reason	Total, 16 years and over		Men, 20 years and over		Women, 20 years and over		Both sexes, 16 to 19 years
Reason	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020
NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
Total unemployed	6,001	12,947	2,819	6,118	2,435	5,804	746	1,025
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	2,786	9,770	1,548	4,837	1,132	4,507	106	426
On temporary layoff	823	6,371	457	2,917	324	3,121	42	333
Not on temporary layoff	1,963	3,399	1,091	1,920	807	1,386	64	92
Permanent job losers	1,343	2,655	736	1,480	569	1,107	37	68
Persons who completed temporary jobs	620	744	355	440	238	279	26	25
Job leavers	814	683	418	343	344	296	52	44
Reentrants	1,810	1,969	708	817	836	872	265	281
New entrants	591	526	144	121	123	130	323	275

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
Total unemployed	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	46.4	75.5	54.9	79.1	46.5	77.6	14.2	41.5
On temporary layoff	13.7	49.2	16.2	47.7	13.3	53.8	5.6	32.5
Not on temporary layoff	32.7	26.3	38.7	31.4	33.2	23.9	8.6	9.0
Job leavers	13.6	5.3	14.8	5.6	14.1	5.1	7.0	4.3
Reentrants	30.2	15.2	25.1	13.3	34.3	15.0	35.5	27.4
New entrants	9.8	4.1	5.1	2.0	5.1	2.2	43.3	26.8

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	1.7	6.1	1.8	5.9	1.5	6.2	1.8	7.4
Job leavers	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.9	0.8
Reentrants	1.1	1.2	0.8	1.0	1.1	1.2	4.5	4.9
New entrants	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	5.5	4.8
NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Last Modified Date: January 22, 2021