January 2020 data released

The monthly update of the Claimant Count and ONS Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) series took place at 09:30 on 18 February 2020 with the release of new data for January 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.

Claimant Count geographic defintion issue

A number of claims to the Universal Credit element of the Claimant Count were supplied coded to incorrect locations for the periods December 2018 to November 2019. This has been corrected for December 2019 onwards, but previous periods remain affected. This particularly affects a number of claimants in Northern Ireland who have been incorrectly allocated to areas in Great Britain. The impact on Northern Ireland for December 2019 is an increase of less than 1,000 cases that had previously been distributed across Great Britain. At the UK level there should not be a net effect.

This will mean that the change in the number of claimants between November and December 2019 will be incorrect for affected areas. For further information contact: labour.supply@ons.gov.uk

Accessing the data

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

• National and regional figures:
  • Regional and National Profile
  • Spreadsheet Download (xls)
• Local area figures:
  • Local Authority Profile
  • local Enterprise Partnership Profile
  • Combined Authority Profile
  • Parliamentary Constituency Profile
  • Ward Profile

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