May 2020 data released

The monthly update of the Claimant Count and ONS Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) series took place at 07:00 on 16 June 2020 with the release of new data for May 2020. As usual the claimant count figures for the previous month were revised at the same time. The full list of updates is given below.

Accessing the data

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

Detailed statistics: the following datasets updated in this release are available under the Claimant Count or Jobseeker's Allowance series in the query 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 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
      • updates of the ethnicity dataset lag one month behind other JSA datasets