March 2018 data released

The monthly update of the Claimant Count and ONS Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) series took place at 09:30 on 17 April 2018 with the release of new data for March 2018. The full list of updates is given below.

This release marks the the first release of figures on a Tuesday following the announcement by ONS on Tuesday 13 February 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 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, local Enterprise Partnership Profile, Combined 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 or JSA series in the query data tool.

Claimant Count

New March 2018 and revised February 2018 data has been added to:

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

Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA figures no longer appear in the profiles)

New March 2018 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 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 February 2018 data has been added to:

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