The February 2026 monthly data are available via IPUMS CPS. We have not yet processed the January 2026 data that were recently re-released by the Census Bureau. October 2025 data were not collected during the U.S. federal government shutdown.
UH_UCAPP_S2
Applied for unemployment compensation since last job, 2005
Codes
This variable is not available for any of the currently selected samples.
Description
Applied for unemployment compensation since last job, 2005
These string values in the original data have been recoded as follows:
blank => -99 : Missing
Universe
- Civilian non-institutional population, age 16+, month in sample is 4 or 8 and currently unemployed, have ever worked or (mlr=4 b4work=1 whenlj=-1, -2, -3) or (mlr=3) or (jhwk=1)).
Availability
| Years | Jan | Feb | ASEC | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | X | - | - | - | X | - | X | - | - | - | X | - |
