UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

          SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending Feb. 3, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 311,000, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 308,000. The 4-week moving average was 308,250, an increase of 3,250 from the previous week's revised average of 305,000.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.9 percent for the week ending Jan. 27, unchanged from the prior week's unrevised rate of 1.9 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending Jan. 27 was 2,490,000, a decrease of 54,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 2,544,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,500,500, an increase of 20,000 from the preceding week's revised average of 2,480,500.  

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 337,323 in the week ending Feb. 3, a decrease of 22,744 from the previous week. There were 321,527 initial claims in the comparable week in 2006.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.3 percent during the week ending Jan. 27, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 2,983,238, a decrease of 120,243 from the preceding week. A year earlier, the rate was 2.4 percent and the volume was 3,074,962.

Extended benefits were not available in any state during the week ending Jan. 20.

Initial claims for UI benefits by former Federal civilian employees totaled 1,536 in the week ending Jan. 27, an increase of 120 from the prior week. There were 1,929 initial claims by newly discharged veterans, an increase of 150 from the preceding week.

There were 21,373 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for the week ending Jan. 20, an increase of 3,828 from the previous week. Newly discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 26,003, an increase of 498 from the prior week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending Jan. 20 were in Alaska (5.8 percent), Michigan (5.2), Pennsylvania (3.8), Wisconsin (3.8), Puerto Rico (3.7), Rhode Island (3.5), Massachusetts (3.3), Montana (3.3), New Jersey (3.3), and Oregon (3.3).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending Jan. 27 were in California (+5,514), Texas (+3,022), New Jersey (+1,451), Florida (+1,048), and Georgia (+1,034), while the largest decreases were in Michigan (-6,822), Kentucky (-3,288), Washington (-2,009), Alabama (-1,615), and Kansas
(-1,277).

FOOTNOTES
SA - Seasonally Adjusted Data
NSA - Not Seasonally Adjusted Data
¹ - Prior year is comparable to most recent data.
² - Most recent week used covered employment of 131,188,612 as denominator.

UNADJUSTED INITIAL CLAIMS FOR WEEK ENDED 01/27/2007 

STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

STATES WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

State Detail Prior Week
UI Claims Series 1967 to current