January 2019 data released

The monthly update of the Claimant Count and ONS Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) series took place at 09:30 on 19 February 2019 with the release of new data for January 2019.

In addition to the latest data, DWP have revised the UC element of the Claimant Count estimates from January 2016 onwards, due to changes in the methodology used for identifying appropriate cases for inclusion. DWP have published a statistical notice explaining the changes.

This release marks the eleventh release of figures on a Tuesday following the announcement by ONS on Tuesday 13 February 2018 that they would be changing the day of the week that they publish labour market statistics from a Wednesday to a Tuesday as of April 2018.

Accessing the data

Headline statistics: The headline statistics are available in the following reports:

• National and regional figures:
  • Regional and National Profile
  • Spreadsheet Download (xls)
• Local area figures:
  • Local Authority Profile
  • local Enterprise Partnership Profile
  • Combined Authority Profile
  • Parliamentary Constituency Profile
  • Ward Profile

Detailed statistics: the following datasets updated in this release are available under the claimant count or Jobseeker's Allowance series in the query data tool:

• Claimant Count:
  • Claimant count seasonally adjusted
  • Claimant count by sex and age
• Jobseeker's Allowance:
  • Jobseeker's Allowance with rates and proportions
  • Jobseeker's Allowance by age and duration
  • Jobseeker's Allowance by age and duration with proportions
  • Jobseeker's Allowance by occupation
  • Jobseeker's Allowance by occupation, age and duration
  • Jobseeker's Allowance flows
  • Jobseeker's Allowance flows by age and duration
  • Jobseeker's Allowance flows by occupation
  • Jobseeker's Allowance flows - seasonally adjusted
  • Jobseeker's Allowance on-flows by occupation and age
  • Jobseeker's Allowance off-flows by occupation, age and duration
  • Jobseeker's Allowance off-flows by reason, age and duration
  • Jobseeker's Allowance off-flows by reason and occupation
  • Jobseeker's Allowance off-flows by reason, occupation, age and duration
  • Jobseeker's Allowance seasonally adjusted
  • Jobseeker's Allowance stocks and flows by ethnicity, age and duration [note: latest figures are one month behind other JSA datasets]