The monthly update of the claimant count series took place at 09:30 on 21 January 2015 with the release of new data for December 2014. The full list of updates is given below.

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 December 2014 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 November 2014 data has been added to:

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