CORRELATION
-0.23
Weak negative relationship
Searches for recession and unemployment benefits move largely independently over the period shown.
R²0.05
RANGE5 years
FITCubic
SEARCH INTEREST, MONTHLY (0–100)
Recession
Unemployment benefits
Dots are raw months · lines are the cubic fit
Google Trends interest indices (0–100), not absolute volumes. Correlation is not causation.