National Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims (ETA 539)
US national weekly unemployment insurance claims from the DOL ETA 539 report, both seasonally adjusted (SA) and not seasonally adjusted (NSA): initial claims, continued claims (insured unemployment), the insured unemployment rate, and covered employment. Weekly, week-ending dates, 1967-present. This is the headline series quoted in the Thursday UI weekly claims news release.
In SQL, this dataset is the rows of ui_claims.series with dataset_code = 'national_weekly'.
Series
Continued Claims (Insured Unemployment), Not Seasonally Adjusted (National)
Persons · Weekly · Not seasonally adjusted · 1967 to 2026
Continued Claims (Insured Unemployment), Seasonally Adjusted (National)
Persons · Weekly · Seasonally adjusted · 1967 to 2026
Initial Claims, Not Seasonally Adjusted (National)
Persons · Weekly · Not seasonally adjusted · 1967 to 2026
Initial Claims, Seasonally Adjusted (National)
Persons · Weekly · Seasonally adjusted · 1967 to 2026
Covered Employment (National)
Persons · Weekly · 1971 to 2026
Insured Unemployment Rate, Not Seasonally Adjusted (National)
Percent · Weekly · Not seasonally adjusted · 1971 to 2026
Insured Unemployment Rate, Seasonally Adjusted (National)
Percent · Weekly · Seasonally adjusted · 1971 to 2026