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Google Trends 'file for unemployment' search interest by state

relative search volume index for unemployment-filing queries per state

Feed detail
Measures
relative search volume index for unemployment-filing queries per state
Source
Google Trends (trends.google.com, has an unofficial but stable JSON endpoint via pytrends)
Access
json-api
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Search interest in filing unemployment spikes 3-7 days ahead of official state claims data being reported, a well-documented Fed-research-validated nowcast
Maps to
initial jobless claims nowcast trade, rates
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:low
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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