The monthly update of the claimant count and Jobcentre vacancies data series took place at 09:30 on 16 February 2011 with the release of new data for January 2011. The full list of updates is given below.

Accessing the data: Headline claimant count and Jobcentre vacancy figures for an area are available from the area profiles. Choose either the local authority profile, parliamentary constituency profile, or ward profile depending on the type of area for which you want figures. The headline national and regional figures are available as a spreadsheet download (xls).

To access the full datasets in advanced query use the links in the list below.

Jobseeker's Allowance Claimant Count

New January 2011 data has been added to:

• claimant count with rates and proportions   [link to data]
• claimant count - age and duration   [link to data]
• claimant count - seasonally adjusted   [link to data]
• claimant count - occupation   [link to data]
• claimant count - occupation, age and duration   [link to data]
• claimant flows   [link to data]
• claimant flows - age and duration   [link to data]
• claimant flows - occupation   [link to data]
• claimant flows - seasonally adjusted   [link to data]
• claimant in-flows - occupation and age   [link to data]
• claimant off-flows - occupation, age and duration   [link to data]
• claimant off-flows - reasons, age and duration   [link to data]
• claimant off-flows - reasons by occupation   [link to data]
• claimant off-flows - reasons by occupation, age and duration   [link to data]

New December 2010 data has been added to:

• claimant stocks and flows - ethnicity, age and duration   [link to data]

Jobcentre Plus Vacancies

New January 2011 data has been added to:

• vacancies - summary analysis   [link to data]
• vacancies - notified by occupation   [link to data]
• vacancies - unfilled by duration and occupation   [link to data]
• vacancies - outflow by duration and occupation   [link to data]
• vacancies - notified by industry   [link to data]
• vacancies - unfilled by duration and industry   [link to data]
• vacancies - outflow by duration and industry   [link to data]

September 2010 figures: Figures for this missing month have been added to the two notified vacanccies datasets:

• vacancies - notified by occupation   [link to data]
• vacancies - notified by industry   [link to data]

DWP are continuing to investigate whether it will be possible to add figures for this month to the remaining datasets.