The monthly update of the claimant count and Jobcentre vacancies data series took place at 09:30 on 17 October 2012 with the release of new data for September 2012. The full list of updates is given below.

Changes to Jobcentre Vacancies: The final update of the vacancy datasets will take place on 14 Nov 2012 with the release of the Oct 2012 counts. After this there will be no further updates to the Jobcentre Vacancy series on Nomis. DWP are consulting users about future options for Jobcentre Plus vacancy statistics. See the Jobcentre Vacancies Consultation news article for further details and a link to the consultation.

Accessing the data

Headline statistics: The headline national and regional figures are available from the regional and national profile or as a spreadsheet download (xls).

For local areas use either the local authority profile, parliamentary constituency profile, or ward profile depending on the type of area for which you want figures.

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

Jobseeker's Allowance Claimant Count

New September 2012 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 August 2012 data has been added to:

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

Jobcentre Plus Vacancies

New September 2012 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]