A-31. Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

HOUSEHOLD DATA
NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
A-31. Unemployed persons by industry, class of worker, and sex [Numbers in thousands]
Industry and class of worker	Total unemployed		Unemployment rates
	July 2017	July 2018	Total		Men		Women
	July 2017	July 2018	July 2017	July 2018	July 2017	July 2018	July 2017	July 2018
Total, 16 years and over(1)	7,441	6,730	4.6	4.1	4.3	3.8	4.9	4.5

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers(2)	5,230	4,819	4.1	3.7	3.9	3.3	4.2	4.1
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	32	29	4.5	3.4	4.8	3.8	2.0	1.3
Construction	469	333	4.9	3.4	4.9	3.4	4.5	3.7
Manufacturing	639	596	4.0	3.8	3.6	3.6	5.1	4.3
Durable goods	399	339	4.0	3.5	3.7	3.5	5.0	3.4
Nonmetallic mineral products	27	11	5.5	2.3	6.6	3.0	2.8	0.0
Primary and fabricated metal products	69	37	4.2	2.3	3.7	2.5	6.7	1.7
Machinery manufacturing	23	29	1.8	2.4	1.9	2.9	1.6	0.6
Computer and electronic products	57	41	4.8	3.6	3.9	3.6	6.7	3.9
Electrical equipment and appliances	13	33	2.7	8.4	2.7	5.0	2.6	16.4
Transportation equipment	102	96	4.1	3.7	3.8	2.8	5.5	7.0
Wood products	13	7	3.1	1.6	3.5	1.9	-	-
Furniture and related products	16	18	4.0	4.9	3.6	6.6	5.4	0.0
Miscellaneous manufacturing	80	66	4.7	4.1	4.1	5.8	5.6	1.1
Nondurable goods	240	257	4.1	4.4	3.5	3.9	5.3	5.3
Food manufacturing	119	141	6.1	7.3	5.9	6.5	6.4	8.4
Beverage and tobacco products	14	7	4.2	2.1	4.1	1.5	4.5	3.6
Textile, apparel, and leather	26	34	4.0	5.7	2.7	8.0	5.2	3.6
Paper and printing	17	9	1.8	1.0	0.6	0.7	4.4	1.8
Petroleum and coal products	23	8	11.0	4.5	13.0	5.9	-	-
Chemicals	27	47	2.3	3.3	0.9	2.3	5.4	5.2
Plastics and rubber products	14	12	2.8	2.3	3.0	2.4	2.1	1.8
Wholesale and retail trade	970	841	4.8	4.1	4.2	3.6	5.5	4.7
Wholesale trade	123	97	3.4	2.6	2.9	2.6	4.6	2.5
Retail trade	847	743	5.1	4.4	4.6	3.9	5.6	5.0
Transportation and utilities	262	254	3.9	3.6	3.3	2.6	6.1	6.9
Transportation and warehousing	246	232	4.3	3.8	3.6	3.0	6.6	6.8
Utilities	16	22	1.6	2.1	1.4	0.5	2.6	7.1
Information(3)	111	114	4.3	4.2	4.5	4.9	4.1	2.8
Publishing, except Internet	33	42	6.6	8.1	8.0	12.3	5.3	2.9
Motion picture and sound recording industries	28	38	6.6	8.3	5.8	10.2	7.7	4.3
Radio and television broadcasting and cable subscription programming	13	11	2.5	1.9	4.2	0.0	0.0	5.4
Telecommunications	27	18	3.3	2.1	2.3	2.8	5.4	0.0
Financial activities	230	233	2.3	2.3	2.8	2.6	1.8	2.1
Finance and insurance	152	148	2.1	2.1	2.7	2.6	1.6	1.7
Finance	101	104	2.2	2.3	2.9	2.8	1.5	1.8
Insurance	51	45	2.0	1.7	2.2	2.0	1.9	1.6
Real estate and rental and leasing	77	84	2.7	2.9	3.0	2.5	2.4	3.4
Real estate	59	70	2.4	2.8	2.7	2.2	2.1	3.4
Rental and leasing services	19	14	4.8	3.4	4.5	3.5	5.4	2.9
Professional and business services	687	632	4.0	3.6	3.4	3.2	4.7	4.2
Professional and technical services	275	208	2.5	1.8	2.1	1.7	3.0	2.0
Management, administrative, and waste services(3)	412	424	6.4	6.8	5.5	5.7	7.6	8.5
Administrative and support services	390	416	6.7	7.4	5.8	6.5	7.9	8.8
Waste management and remediation services	17	0	4.0	0.0	4.2	0.0	3.1	-
Education and health services	830	767	3.5	3.2	3.6	2.0	3.4	3.6
Educational services	275	274	5.7	5.9	4.8	2.4	6.2	7.6
Health care and social assistance	555	492	2.9	2.5	3.0	1.8	2.9	2.7
Hospitals	85	71	1.3	1.1	1.9	1.2	1.2	1.0
Health services, except hospitals	335	287	3.3	2.8	3.7	1.8	3.3	3.1
Social assistance	135	135	5.1	5.0	3.8	4.0	5.3	5.2
Leisure and hospitality	739	779	4.9	5.2	4.5	4.7	5.3	5.5
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	109	153	3.7	5.1	3.8	4.6	3.6	5.7
Accommodation and food services	630	626	5.2	5.2	4.6	4.8	5.7	5.5
Accommodation	67	74	4.0	4.2	3.7	4.0	4.2	4.3
Food services and drinking places	563	551	5.4	5.3	4.8	4.9	6.0	5.7
Other services	262	242	4.0	3.5	4.8	2.7	3.2	4.1
Other services, except private households	206	188	3.5	3.1	4.0	2.5	2.9	3.7
Repair and maintenance	75	57	4.2	2.9	3.9	2.2	5.9	7.3
Personal and laundry services	71	60	3.5	3.0	5.9	2.7	2.6	3.1
Membership associations and organizations	60	71	3.0	3.2	3.1	2.8	2.9	3.6
Private households	56	54	7.6	6.3	26.7	-	4.4	5.5

Agricultural and related private wage and salary workers(2)	89	112	5.0	5.9	3.4	5.3	10.0	7.8
Government wage and salary workers	872	744	4.1	3.6	2.5	2.9	5.4	4.1
Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers	310	253	3.2	2.5	3.6	2.7	2.7	2.3

No previous work experience	941	803	-	-	-	-	-	-
Footnotes (1) Includes a small number of persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces. (2) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated. (3) Includes other industries, not shown separately.
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: April 18, 2023