Average Weekly Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance

Average Weekly Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance includes any notice of unemployment filed either to request a determination of entitlement to and eligibility for compensation, or to begin a second or subsequent period of eligibility within a benefit year or period of eligibility. Data for each month represent averages over the partial and full calendar weeks in the month.

Weekly initial claims data for all states and the United States as a whole are published by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston calculates and seasonally adjusts monthly averages for the New England states, and The Federal Reserve Board of Governors calculates and adjusts monthly averages for U.S. data.

Weekly initial claims data for all states are published by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration.

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U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
http://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov

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