Datasets:

FinzData
/

macro-labor

license: other
license_name: public-domain-source-us-government
pretty_name: 'US Macro Data: Labor'
language:
  - en
tags:
  - finance
  - economics
  - macroeconomics
  - time-series
  - fred
  - labor
  - quant
  - backtesting
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
configs:
  - config_name: long
    data_files: data/long.parquet
    default: true
  - config_name: wide_weekly
    data_files: data/wide_weekly.parquet
  - config_name: wide_monthly
    data_files: data/wide_monthly.parquet
  - config_name: wide_quarterly
    data_files: data/wide_quarterly.parquet
  - config_name: wide_annual
    data_files: data/wide_annual.parquet
  - config_name: wide_other
    data_files: data/wide_other.parquet

US macro data: Labor (595 series)

595 labor series from US government sources, cleaned into one consistent format and ready for pandas. This free package holds the last 12 months (2025-11-02 on) of each series' latest values. It is refreshed weekly.

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/FinzData/macro-labor/data/long.parquet")      # series_id, date, value
wide = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/FinzData/macro-labor/data/wide_weekly.parquet")  # one column per series

or datasets.load_dataset("FinzData/macro-labor"). Wide tables by frequency: wide_weekly (19 series), wide_monthly (473 series), wide_quarterly (70 series), wide_annual (32 series), wide_other (1 series). series.csv lists every series with its title, units, frequency and how far back the full history goes.

The full history, point in time, through one API

The FinzData API serves every series back to its first observation, every revision (what was known on any past date, so backtests do not peek at later revisions), and daily updates, in the same format:

import finzdata as fz                     # pip install finzdata
c = fz.Client()                           # free API key: https://api.finzdata.com/
c.macro("UNRATE")                        # full history, latest values
c.macro("UNRATE", vintage="first")       # as first released
c.macro("UNRATE", as_of="2020-03-01")    # exactly what was known on that date
c.macro_series(category="labor")          # the catalogue for this category

Most-watched series in this package

ID	Title	Units	Frequency	Full history from
`UNRATE`	Unemployment Rate	Percent	Monthly	1948
`PAYEMS`	All Employees, Total Nonfarm	Thousands of Persons	Monthly	1939
`CIVPART`	Labor Force Participation Rate	Percent	Monthly	1948
`ICSA`	Initial Claims	Number	Weekly, Ending Saturday	1967
`LES1252881600Q`	Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over	1982-84 CPI Adjusted Dollars	Quarterly	1979
`CES0500000003`	Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private	Dollars per Hour	Monthly	2006
`JTSJOL`	Job Openings: Total Nonfarm	Level in Thousands	Monthly	2000
`MANEMP`	All Employees, Manufacturing	Thousands of Persons	Monthly	1939
`U6RATE`	Total Unemployed, Plus All Persons Marginally Attached to the Labor Force, Plus Total Employed Part Time for Economic Reasons, as a Percent of the Civilian Labor Force Plus All Persons Marginally Attached to the Labor Force (U-6)	Percent	Monthly	1994
`CCSA`	Continued Claims (Insured Unemployment)	Number	Weekly, Ending Saturday	1967
`LNS11300060`	Labor Force Participation Rate - 25-54 Yrs.	Percent	Monthly	1948
`OPHNFB`	Nonfarm Business Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers	Index 2017=100	Quarterly	1947
`TEMPHELPS`	All Employees, Temporary Help Services	Thousands of Persons	Monthly	1990
`UEMP27OV`	Number Unemployed for 27 Weeks & over	Thousands of Persons	Monthly	1948
`CLF16OV`	Civilian Labor Force Level	Thousands of Persons	Monthly	1947
`EMRATIO`	Employment-Population Ratio	Percent	Monthly	1948
`NROU`	Noncyclical Rate of Unemployment	Percent	Quarterly	1949
`UNEMPLOY`	Unemployment Level	Thousands of Persons	Monthly	1948
`CE16OV`	Employment Level	Thousands of Persons	Monthly	1947
`ECIWAG`	Employment Cost Index: Wages and Salaries: Private Industry Workers	Index Dec 2005=100	Quarterly	1980
`LNS14000006`	Unemployment Rate - Black or African American	Percent	Monthly	1972
`LNS14024887`	Unemployment Rate - 16-24 Yrs.	Percent	Monthly	1948
`IC4WSA`	4-Week Moving Average of Initial Claims	Number	Weekly, Ending Saturday	1967
`AHETPI`	Average Hourly Earnings of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees, Total Private	Dollars per Hour	Monthly	1964
`CES9091000001`	All Employees, Federal	Thousands of Persons	Monthly	1939

All 595 series: series.csv. Browse them at https://finzdata.com/macro/category/labor.

US macro data: Labor (595 series)

The full history, point in time, through one API

Most-watched series in this package

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