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    Unemployment Insurance Initial Claims Statewide By Month: Beginning 1971

    Metadata Updated: November 22, 2025

    Dataset contains monthly counts, from 1971 to present, of initial claims for regular unemployment insurance benefits. Initial Claims include new claims as well as subsequent additional claims filed. New claims are filed in person, by mail, telephone or other means to request a determination of entitlement to and eligibility for compensation which results in an agency generated document of an appealable monetary determination provided to the potential claimant. Additional claims are filed during an existing benefit year due to new unemployment when a break of one week or more has occurred in the claim series due to intervening employment. Data are provided for New York State. Counts include only state residents who file a claim (excluding out-of-state residents).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 22, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NY State JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date November 22, 2025
    Publisher data.ny.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.ny.gov/api/views/ns8z-xewg
    Data First Published 2020-11-27
    Data Last Modified 2025-11-16
    Category Economic Development
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.ny.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id ad48fe98-b3e6-49a5-a242-ec064f690962
    Harvest Source Id 36f923f9-f915-42dc-a4de-1a5e3a17d284
    Harvest Source Title NY State JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.ny.gov/d/ns8z-xewg
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5efbcc116fc3dec3af1d6307a0bdd0f1a0ea1bdd06ed1eec80b920c2a49c1af3
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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