The monthly update of the Claimant Count and ONS Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) series took place at 09:30 on 11 Nov 2015 with the release of new data for October 2015. The full list of updates is given below.

There are two changes this month:

  • From today all Jobseeker's Allowance datasets have been removed from the Claimant Count folder on the dataset selection page of the query tool and placed within a new Jobseeker's Allowance folder. The only datasets that now appear in the Claimant Count folder cover the latest definition of the Claimant Count (Jobseeker's Allowance plus out-of-work Universal Credit claimants).
  • A new Claimant Count by sex and age dataset has been released which includes small area counts down to lower-layer super output areas.

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: The complete datasets updated in this release are available under the claimant count series in the query data tool.

Claimant Count

New October 2015 data has been added to:

  • Claimant count seasonally adjusted
  • Claimant count by sex and age

Jobseeker's Allowance

New October 2015 data has been added to:

  • 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 stocks and flows by ethnicity, age and duration
  • 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

New September 2015 data has been added to:

  • Jobseeker's Allowance stocks and flows by ethnicity, age and duration