This poll, fielded December 4-8, 2009, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way Barack Obama was handling his job as president, job creation, the economy, the situation in Afghanistan, and health care. Several questions addressed the economy and included questions that asked for respondents' opinions on the condition of the economy, the recession, who they thought was to blame for the current high employment rate in the United States, whether they thought Republicans or Democrats would create new jobs, and whether the government's stimulus package made the economy better or created new jobs. Respondents were asked about their personal financial situation, their rating of their household's financial situation, whether they thought their financial situation was getting better, what worried them the most about their finances, whether they had made cutbacks in their day-to-day spending, how their family had been affected by the recession, and whether they discussed the financial changes with their children. Information was collected on respondents' employment status. Unemployed respondents were asked how long they had been out of work and seeking employment, how long they expected it to take to find employment, whether they were laid off, whether they were offered a severance package with their last employer, what was most effective in finding leads for new jobs, and whether they had relocated, considered changing their career, or pursued job re-training programs to increase their chances of finding employment. Respondents were asked how confident they were that they would find a job with the same income and benefits as their last job, whether they were receiving unemployment benefits, and whether they took any money from their savings account, borrowed money from family or friends, increased the household's credit card debt, cut back on vacations or doctors visits, or received food stamps as result of being unemployed. Respondents were also asked whether the following things occurred as a result of them being unemployed: positive experiences, increase in volunteer work or religious service attendance, increased stress levels or exercise time, threatened with foreclosure, had more arguments with family, emotional or mental health issues, or had trouble sleeping. Other topics covered included global warming, health insurance plans, health care reform, job security, and the war in Afghanistan. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, education level, household income, military service, religious preference, reported social class, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter registration status, and whether respondents thought of themselves as born again Christians.

Initial Jobless Claims in the United States decreased to 216 thousand in the week ending November 22 of 2025 from 222 thousand in the previous week. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Initial Jobless Claims - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Historical series of the State Unemployment Insurance (UI) Weekly Claims & Extended Benefits Trigger Data Reports (ETA-539) which contain data used in the production of the UI Weekly Claims news release. The data also includes information of the Extended Benefit program trigger status and includes the information provided by states to the US Department of Labor indicating the weekly extended benefits trigger status.

Description:

This dataset combines data from three sources to provide a comprehensive overview of county-level socioeconomic indicators, educational attainment, and voting outcomes in the United States. The dataset includes variables such as unemployment rates, median household income, urban influence codes, education levels, and voting percentages for the 2020 U.S. presidential election. By integrating this data, the dataset enables analysis of how factors like income, education, and unemployment correlate with political preferences, offering insights into regional voting behaviors across the country.

References:

The following reference datasets were used to construct this dataset.

[1] Harvard Dataverse, Voting Data Set by County. Available: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi: 10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ

[2] USDA Economic Research Service, Educational Attainment and Un- employment Data. Available: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ county-level-data-sets/county-level-data-sets-download-data/

Overview with Chart & Report: Continuing Jobless Claims reflect the number of people who have been receiving unemployment benefits for a while. The indicator is published weekly. The figure does not reflect the total number of

Graph and download economic data for Initial Claims (ICSA) from 1967-01-07 to 2025-11-22 about initial claims, headline figure, and USA.

Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States increased to 1960 thousand in the week ending November 15 of 2025 from 1953 thousand in the previous week. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Continuing Jobless Claims - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This poll, fielded October 2011, and the second of three, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Opinions were sought about how well Barack Obama was handling the presidency, foreign policy, the economy, the situation in Iraq, and job creation. Further questions were asked about the state of the national economy, various tax cuts and regulations, job creation, the Affordable Care Act, and the most important problem facing the nation. Respondents were asked whether the country was headed in the right direction, whether Congress was performing their job well, how Republicans and Democrats were handling job creation, whether Obama or the Republicans favored a certain social class, whether respondents trusted the government, and whether respondents supported the Tea Party movement and/or Occupy Wall Street movement. Respondents were also queried about how much attention they were paying to the 2012 campaign, whether they planned to vote in a 2012 primary or caucus, and for their opinions of various Republican candidates, such as Mitt Romney. Additional topics included unemployment and unemployment benefits, job searches, and problems resulting from being unemployed. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, personal finances, perceived social class, employment status, religious preference, whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter registration status, voting behavior, military service, number of phones, and household composition.

Initial Jobless Claims in France increased to 68.80 thousand in October 2025 from 60.20 thousand in September 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - France Initial Jobless Claims - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Replication files for "Local Unemployment and Voting for President: Uncovering Causal Mechanisms" forthcoming in Political Behavior

The economic voting literature has been dominated by the incumbency-oriented hypothesis, in which voters reward or punish governments at the ballot box according to the nation's economic performance. The alternative (policy-oriented) hypothesis, in which voters favor parties that are closest to their issue position(s), has been neglected in this literature. This article explores policy voting with respect to an archetypal economic policy issue—unemployment. Voters who favor lower unemployment should tend to vote for left parties, since they “own” the issue. Examining a large time-series cross-sectional pool of Western European nations, this study finds some evidence for economic policy voting. However, it is conditioned by incumbency. According to varied tests, left incumbents experience a net electoral cost if the unemployment rate climbs. Incumbency, then, serves to break any natural economic policy advantage that might accrue to the left due to the issue of unemployment.

This data collection is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that evaluate the Bush presidency and solicit opinions on a variety of political and social issues. Topics covered include the economy, foreign affairs, the most important problem facing this country, who was most responsible for doing something about this problem, and which political party better represented the interests of poor people, rich people, and the middle class. In addition, respondents were questioned on whether they thought people in government wasted a lot of money and whether most of them were dishonest. Respondents were also asked if they had a favorable impression of certain people who might run in the presidential election, whom they would vote for if the House of Representatives election were held that day, and toward which candidate they were leaning. Other subjects addressed included whether respondents supported a federal law requiring businesses with more than 50 employees to allow workers 12 weeks of unpaid leave and a federal law giving unemployed people as much as 20 weeks of extra unemployment benefits, whether the United States should cut military spending because of the changes in the Soviet Union, and whether the Senate should have confirmed Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court. Background information on respondents includes political alignment, 1988 presidential vote choice, education, age, religion, social class, marital status, number of people in household, labor union membership, employment status, race, income, sex, and state/region of residence.

In this study, we argue that whether job loss leads to political mobilization or withdrawal is contingent on the political context. We show that a mobilization response is more likely with selective forms of political participation, whereas withdrawal is the likely outcome when participation rates are high. To empirically test this argument, we conduct the first study of the impact of negative economic shocks on the likelihood of seeking political office, using longitudinal population data from Swedish registers. The results accord with our theoretical expectations. Individuals displaced during Sweden's severe 1990s economic crisis were notably more inclined to seek office after losing employment, especially high SES individuals. Conversely, the same shock reduced voter turnout, particularly among low SES individuals.

Persons between 16 and 75 years of age who lived in private households at the time of recruitment

This Gallup poll seeks to obtain the opinions of Canadians on several topics of interest to Canadians. The major subjects of the survey are politics, current events, labour, unions and strikes. Respondents were also asked questions so that they could be grouped according to social, geographic and demographic variables. Topics of interest include: the 4 day work week; the Canadian National Anthem; car ownership; Community Chest not meeting its objectives; Conservative party; federal election; home improvements; housework help; Liberal party; opinion of government; opposition party; whether respondents received a pay increase within the last year; public utilities strikes; religiousness of different generations; the state of the human race; whether titles should be given for outstanding service to Canada; Unemployment Insurance benefits; union membership; and voting behaviour. Basic demographics variables are also included.

This Gallup poll seeks to collect the opinions of Canadians on important political issues, both in Canada and abroad. The major political issues discussed within Canada include prices, defence and unemployment, although lighter issues such as advertising and how spare time is spent are also discussed. Respondents were also asked questions so that they could be classified according to geographic, demographic and social variables. The topics of interest include: whether advertisements are believable or not; the Arab Israeli conflict in Palestine; car ownership; the Conservative party; defence policy; the federal election; government control of schools; how spare time is spent; John Diefenbaker's performance as Prime Minister; the number of jobs held by respondents; preferred political parties; price trends; Unemployment rates; union membership; and voting behaviour. Basic demographics variables are also included.

The 1964 election study was the start of a three-stage panel in which the same respondents were interviewed at the elections of 1964, 1968 and 1970. Questions were asked about newspaper reading, attention to election programs in television and other features of the election campaign, such as election meetings and election pamphlets, and the consequences of a change in government. The respondents had to point out issues they wanted their party to work for in the immediate future, and also the most important things the party had accomplished earlier. Respondents were also asked to give their opinion on the governments handling of the Wennerström spy-affair, and to give a judgement of the possibilities for young people to get education, the hospitals and medical care, housing conditions, social care for the aged, and unemployment benefits. There were also a number of questions about the general supplementary pension scheme.

Purpose:

Explain why people vote as they do and why an election ends in a particular way. Track and follow trends in the Swedish electoral democracy and make comparisons with other countries.

Introduction

Explore the archive of relevant economic information: relevant news on all indicators with explanations, data on past publications on the economy of the United States, Britain, Japan and other developed countries, volatility assessments and much more. For the construction of their forecast models, the use of in-depth training is optimal, with a learning model built on the basis of EU and Forex data. The economic calendar is an indispensable assistant for the trader.

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Data set

The data set is created in the form of an CSV, Excel spreadsheet (two files 2011-2013, 2014-2019), which can be found at boot time. You can see the source of the data on the site https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/

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1. column - Event date
2. column - Event time (time New York)
3. column - Country of the event
4. column - The degree of volatility (possible fluctuations in currency, indices, etc.) caused by this event
5. column - Description of the event
6. column - Evaluation of the event according to the actual data, which came out better than the forecast, worse or correspond to it
7. column - Data format (%, K x103, M x106, T x109)
8. column - Actual event data
9. column - Event forecast data
10. column - Previous data on this event (with comments if there were any interim changes).

Inspiration

1. Use the historical EU in conjunction with the Forex data (exchange rates, indices, metals, oil, stocks) to forecast subsequent Forex data in order to minimize investment risks (combine fundamental market analysis and technical).
2. Historical events of the EU used as a forecast of the subsequent (for example, the calculation of the probability of an increase in the rate of the Fed).
3. Investigate the impact of combinations of EC events on the degree of market volatility at different time periods.
4. To trace the main trends in the economies of the leading countries (for example, a decrease in the demand for unemployment benefits).
5. Use the EU calendar together with the news background archive for this time interval for a more accurate forecast.

This Gallup poll seeks the opinions of Canadians on mostly current events and social issues. For instance, there is a section measuring the presence of appliances, questions on money and general standards of living, and issues such as alcoholism. There are also some more politically based questions, on subjects such as Unemployment Insurance and nuclear war. The respondents were also asked questions so that they could be grouped according to geographic, demographic and social variables. Topics of interest include: alcoholism; appliances owned or expecting to own soon; car ownership; civil defence during a nuclear war; foreign aid; housing satisfaction; nuclear war; peace with Russia; price expectations; risk of another world war; standards of living; unemployment levels; Unemployment Insurance; union membership; vacations recently taken or planned; voting behaviour; and writing letters to Members of Parliament. Basic demographics variables are also included.

Some 33 percent of respondents in the United States were satisfied with their fellow citizens’ response to the coronavirus pandemic on May 31, 2020. Are people satisfied with the media’s response to the coronavirus? As of March to May 2020, all over the world, people were watching news coverage more than usual due to the coronavirus outbreak. A lot of respondents seem to want to keep in-line with the latest trends of a pandemic that has effectively crippled many of the world’s biggest economies. Consumers of several age groups between 16 and 64 are watching news with a greater frequency which also means a greater scrutiny for the media outlets. In the U.S., where millions of people have filed for unemployment benefits since the corona outbreak, more than one third of respondents were satisfied with media’s response to COVID-19 as of May 3rd, 2020. However, a considerable share of respondents in the U.S. believe that media has overstated news related to coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. That goes for audiences from both democrat and republican-supporting groups as they believe that the media outlets have either slightly or greatly exaggerated news about COVID-19.