Initial Claims in the U.S. | FRED

**Overview**

This release contains information on initial claims, which are claims filled out by an unemployed individual who has parted with their employer. The claims determine whether this individual is eligible for the Unemployment Insurance Program.

**Product Details**

Includes the following tables:

- **fs_fred.fred_icsa**
- **Update frequency:** weekly
- **Source:** FRED
- **Description:** The included dataset contains the following columns:`DATE`, `ICSA`. The `ICSA` column represents the number of claims at the time of the corresponding `DATE`.

**Data Sources**

The data in this product comes from **FRED**.

- **Source Homepage:** [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)
- **Frequency:**

The data in this product comes from **FRED**.

Short for Federal Reserve Economic Data, FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources.

FRED, created and maintained by the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, goes far beyond simply providing data: It combines data with a powerful mix of tools that help the user understand, interact with, display, and disseminate the data. In essence, FRED helps users tell their data stories.

This product uses data from the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

- **Source Homepage:** [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)
- **Source Data:** [Data link](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=ICSA)
- **License:** [License](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/#full-fred-terms)
- **Frequency:** weekly

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集包含美国失业救济初次申请记录，源自FRED经济数据库，每周更新，用于确定申请人是否符合失业保险资格。数据包含日期和申请数量两个核心字段。