Weekly US state unemployment-insurance claims intelligence from the DOL ETA-539 archive (keyless CSV): not-seasonally-adjusted initial claims plus insured unemployment and the insured unemployment rate for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with YoY and 4-week-average momentum, a documented 0-100 layoff-pressure score with per-week state ranks, surge / easing / 52-week-record-low flags, and week-level national context. Trailing 5-year panel. Caveats: the latest week is advance data and is routinely revised; NSA claims carry seasonal noise around moving holidays. DOL material is U.S. federal public domain (commercial reuse allowed); source: U.S. Department of Labor.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Rows: 13,833
Columns: 25
Source cadence: Weekly
Last refreshed: Sep 26, 2026
Theme: economy

Column	Type	Description
week_ending	string	Report week ending (Saturday), ISO date. Initial-claims columns refer to this week. The panel covers the trailing 261 weeks (5 years). (unit: ISO date)
continued_week_ending	string	Reference week for the continued-claims columns (continued_claims_nsa, insured_unemployed_nsa, insured_unemployment_rate): one week before week_ending, matching the DOL release convention. (unit: ISO date)
country_code	string	ISO alpha-3 country code (USA for every row). (unit: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3)
state_code	string	Stable geography code: USPS postal abbreviation, lowercase (ca, tx, ny, ...; dc, pr, vi). Primary join key with week_ending.
state_name	string	State/territory name (e.g. California, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands).
initial_claims_nsa	integer	Published not-seasonally-adjusted state UI initial claims for the report week (ETA-539 item 1). (unit: claims)
initial_claims_yoy_pct	float	Year-over-year percent change of initial claims vs the same week 52 weeks earlier. (unit: percent)
initial_claims_4wk_ma	float	Trailing 4-week moving average of NSA initial claims (minimum 4 observations). (unit: claims)
continued_claims_nsa	integer	Published state UI adjusted continued weeks claimed (ETA-539 item 6), referring to continued_week_ending. (unit: weeks claimed)
continued_claims_yoy_pct	float	Year-over-year percent change of continued weeks claimed vs 52 weeks earlier. (unit: percent)
insured_unemployed_nsa	integer	Published insured unemployed count (ETA-539), referring to continued_week_ending. (unit: persons)
insured_unemployment_rate	float	Published insured unemployment rate = insured unemployed * 100 / covered employment (ETA-539 item 19), referring to continued_week_ending. Nulled on rows failing the record-layout arithmetic gate (see rate_artifact_flag). (unit: percent)
iur_yoy_pp	float	Year-over-year change of the insured unemployment rate vs 52 weeks earlier. (unit: percentage points)
rate_artifact_flag	integer	1 when the published IUR failed the record-layout arithmetic gate (\|published - insured*100/covered\| > 0.02): the counts are kept, the rate is nulled. Genuine upstream artifact, never interpolated. (unit: binary)
layoff_pressure_score	float	Documented 0-100 composite: 100 * (0.60 * min-max(winsorized initial_claims_yoy_pct, -50/+75) + 0.40 * min-max(winsorized iur_yoy_pp, +/-2.5)), min-maxed within each report week across the 53 geos. Higher = worse layoff pressure versus peers that week. (unit: 0-100 score)
layoff_pressure_rank	integer	Per-week rank of layoff_pressure_score across the 53 geos (1 = worst pressure). (unit: rank)
claims_surge_flag	integer	1 when initial_claims_yoy_pct >= +20%. (unit: binary)
claims_easing_flag	integer	1 when initial_claims_yoy_pct <= -20%. (unit: binary)
record_low_52wk_flag	integer	1 when initial claims equal the trailing-52-week minimum (minimum 52 observations). (unit: binary)
us_initial_claims_nsa	integer	Week-level context: 53-geo sum of NSA initial claims. The DOL advance national total is computed independently, so this is context, not an identity. (unit: claims)
state_share_of_us_pct	float	Week-level context: the state's share of us_initial_claims_nsa. (unit: percent)
us_insured_unemployed_nsa	integer	Week-level context: 53-geo sum of insured unemployed. (unit: persons)
dol_record_status	string	DOL ETA-539 record-status code carried verbatim (E/B), never interpreted.
dol_status_change_date	string	DOL ETA-539 status-change date carried verbatim (a Saturday for E, a Sunday for B, per Handbook 402 Appendix C), never interpreted. (unit: ISO date)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex row hash of state_code + week_ending (idempotency).

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

week_ending	continued_week_ending	country_code	state_code	state_name	initial_claims_nsa	initial_claims_yoy_pct	initial_claims_4wk_ma	continued_claims_nsa	continued_claims_yoy_pct	insured_unemployed_nsa	insured_unemployment_rate	iur_yoy_pp	layoff_pressure_score	layoff_pressure_rank	claims_surge_flag	claims_easing_flag	record_low_52wk_flag	us_initial_claims_nsa	state_share_of_us_pct	us_insured_unemployed_nsa	dol_record_status	dol_status_change_date	row_hash
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	ak	Alaska	1,237	-65.639	1,182.25	7,645	-66.07	6,755	2.39	-8.45	0	18	0	1	0	300,498	0.412	2,878,972	B	2020-05-03	14b79da5a2e11e58
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	al	Alabama	4,000	-54.571	4,261.25	6,789	-80.601	16,532	0.89	-2.79	0	18	0	1	0	300,498	1.331	2,878,972	E	2020-09-12	cb4dcccbe9921c83
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	ar	Arkansas	1,465	-76.097	1,484.75	13,507	-63.765	17,609	1.52	-3.91	0	18	0	1	0	300,498	0.488	2,878,972	E	2020-10-17	43b34a9b8aca4292
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	az	Arizona	4,032	-50.871	5,389	26,297	-84.998	36,166	1.27	-5.94	0	18	0	1	0	300,498	1.342	2,878,972	E	2020-12-12	b1d8a5030719523d
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	ca	California	78,675	-54.016	64,126.5	491,251	-78.345	599,563	3.71	-12.35	0	18	0	1	0	300,498	26.182	2,878,972	B	2020-05-10	0a0548fdbcd1d1c9
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	co	Colorado	1,962	-59.463	2,302.25	31,150	-78.244	33,358	1.31	-5.94	0	18	0	1	0	300,498	0.653	2,878,972	E	2021-06-12	9bb766061c42900c
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	ct	Connecticut	2,296	-54.126	2,596.75	31,955	-80.007	45,275	2.96	-10.21	0	18	0	1	1	300,498	0.764	2,878,972	B	2020-04-26	cbedb1760122e684
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	dc	District of Columbia	7,861	316.146	4,791	11,933	-80.167	17,498	3.3	-8.56	60	1	1	0	0	300,498	2.616	2,878,972	B	2020-05-24	dc2399210f15e912
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	de	Delaware	880	-51.515	768.25	4,991	-81.394	8,043	1.85	-6.18	0	18	0	1	0	300,498	0.293	2,878,972	B	2020-05-24	d0166afeade7de9b
2021-09-25	2021-09-18	USA	fl	Florida	7,713	-76.17	7,997	58,913	-84.172	107,786	1.29	-4.99	0	18	0	1	0	300,498	2.567	2,878,972	E	2020-11-07	aa6a20034bce8833

Sep 26, 2026Current
20260926T213850Z-310b97b0367f · sha256 310b97b0367f…
13,833 rows · first snapshot

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/us_ui_claims_intel/us_state_ui_claims_intel_weekly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/us_ui_claims_intel/us_state_ui_claims_intel_weekly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/us_ui_claims_intel/us_state_ui_claims_intel_weekly

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U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. (2026). US state UI claims intelligence (weekly) [Data set, snapshot 20260926T213850Z-310b97b0367f, sha256 310b97b0367f]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-26, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/us_ui_claims_intel/us_state_ui_claims_intel_weekly?snapshot=20260926T213850Z-310b97b0367f

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@misc{dz_us_ui_claims_intel_us_state_ui_claims_in_310b97b0,
  title        = {{US state UI claims intelligence (weekly)}},
  author       = {{U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/us_ui_claims_intel/us_state_ui_claims_intel_weekly?snapshot=20260926T213850Z-310b97b0367f}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260926T213850Z-310b97b0367f, sha256 310b97b0367f1d6dafabb39331266b0b17a314cc457bc8a042b31a91b4ce708c; accessed 2026-09-26}
}

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