Arizona initial claims for unemployment insurance dropped to 3,022 for the week ended February 24, down from 3,263 the prior week. That was up 8.3% over the year and up 4.0% from 2019.
U.S. initial claims for unemployment insurance fell 4.0% over the year and 4.5% from 2019 for the week ending February 24. Claims reached 193,988, which was down from 199,337 the prior week.
The U.S. hotel occupancy rate rose for the third straight week to 62.0% for the week ended February 24. Occupancy was down 3.4% over the year and down 4.2% from 2019.
U.S. movie box office sales plummeted to $79.9 million for the week ended February 29, down from a revised $113.8 million the prior week. That was down 34.7% over the year and down 51.6% from 2019. New movie releases were down 26.3% from 2019.
U.S. TSA traveler throughput hit 16.6 million for the week ended February 24, up 6.4% over the year and up from 15.5 million the prior week. Throughput was also up 8.3% from 2019.
Arizona new business applications bounced up to 740 for the week ended February 24, up from 650 the prior week. That was down 3.9% over the year.
Data on seated diners at restaurants using the OpenTable app is no longer being updated to compare the current week to 2019 results.
As of October 15, 2022, Google stopped updating mobility data.
Health Indicators
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The percent of people vaccinated is the number of individuals who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccination relative to the population of Arizona. The percent of people fully vaccinated is the number of individuals who have received a valid, complete vaccine series relative to the population. Vaccine data are from the Arizona Department of Health Statistics and population is from the U.S. Census Bureau.
This is the total number of doses administered in the state to date. COVID-19 vaccination data are provisional and are subject to change.
Weekly Indicators
Note: The official initial claims for unemployment insurance numbers for the U.S. are released every Thursday morning covering the week ending on the previous Saturday.
These data show year-over-year seated diners at restaurants on the OpenTable network across all channels: online reservations, phone reservations, and walk-ins. For year-over-year comparisons by day, we compare the week ending Saturday to the same week in the previous year. this dataset is based on a sample of approximately 20,000 restaurants that provide OpenTable with information on all of their inventory.
The U.S. Census Bureau continues to produce weekly estimates; however, the weekly estimate files are published as part of the
Monthly Business Formation Statistics (BFS) Release.One key dataset with these estimates is High-Propensity Business Applications, a subset of total weekly business applications in Arizona that measures the number of applications with a high-propensity of turning into a business with a payroll, based on various factors. These data reflect weekly applications for Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) in Arizona which are likely to result in employment and wages. These include applications: (a) from a corporate entity, (b) that indicate they are hiring employees, purchasing a business or changing organizational type, (c) that provide a first wages-paid date (planned wages); or (d) that have a NAICS industry code in manufacturing (31-33), retail stores (44), health care (62), or restaurants/food service (72). Applications for EINs occur before the jobs and wages are added, so this is a leading indicator.
Read more about the Business Application dataset from the
U.S. Census Bureau.
