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Table 2. Unemployment insurance (UI) benefit applicants and recipients among unemployed persons who had worked in the past 12 months by characteristics of last job, 2022

Table 2. Unemployment insurance (UI) benefit applicants and recipients among unemployed persons who had worked in the past 12 months by characteristics of last job, 2022
[Numbers in thousands]
Characteristic Unemployed
who worked
in the past
12 months (1)
UI benefit applicants Did not
apply for UI
benefits
Total Percent of
unemployed
UI benefit recipients
Total Percent of
UI benefit
applicants
Percent of
unemployed

Total, 16 years and over

4,149 1,075 25.9 591 55.0 14.2 2,998

Union status on last job (2)

Union member or represented by a union

269 153 57.0 124 80.7 45.9 113

Nonunion

3,757 902 24.0 454 50.3 12.1 2,827

Occupation of last job (3)

Management, professional, and related occupations

904 229 25.4 133 57.8 14.7 665

Management, business, and financial operations occupations

372 144 38.6 73 50.9 19.6 228

Professional and related occupations

532 86 16.1 59 69.3 11.2 437

Service occupations

879 197 22.4 112 57.1 12.8 658

Sales and office occupations

916 264 28.8 126 47.7 13.7 644

Sales and related occupations

416 106 25.4 53 49.9 12.7 307

Office and administrative support occupations

500 158 31.7 73 46.2 14.6 336

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations

591 220 37.1 132 59.9 22.3 365

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

67 21 - 13 - - 46

Construction and extraction occupations

456 178 39.0 111 62.1 24.2 271

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

68 21 - 9 - - 48

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations

853 165 19.3 88 53.6 10.4 660

Production occupations

308 65 21.3 29 - 9.5 239

Transportation and material moving occupations

545 99 18.2 59 59.6 10.9 420

Industry of last job (3)

Agriculture and related industries

86 25 29.0 17 - 19.6 61

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

23 12 - 7 - - 10

Construction

513 192 37.5 124 64.7 24.3 314

Manufacturing

383 148 38.5 79 53.6 20.6 236

Wholesale and retail trade

621 136 21.9 72 52.8 11.5 469

Transportation and utilities

319 82 25.7 43 52.6 13.5 229

Information

51 13 - 4 - - 36

Financial activities

159 44 27.8 15 - 9.3 114

Professional and business services

586 151 25.7 92 61.3 15.7 424

Education and health services

562 95 17.0 46 48.5 8.2 463

Leisure and hospitality

589 109 18.6 56 51.6 9.6 467

Other services

154 32 20.8 25 - 16.3 111

Public administration

97 35 36.2 10 - 10.5 58

(1) Includes a relatively small number of persons who did not provide information about applying for UI benefits, not shown separately.
(2) Refers to union members and those covered by a union contract on their last job. Data do not sum to total because some individuals did not respond to the question about union membership.
(3) Persons whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total, but not shown separately.

NOTE: Estimates are an average of data collected in February and May 2022. Data exclude unemployed persons with no previous work experience and those who last worked more than 12 months prior to the survey. However, all unemployed persons expecting to be recalled from temporary layoff are included, regardless of whether they worked in the 12 months prior to the survey. 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: March 29, 2023