Euro-area unemployment signals (rates, divergence, distance from EA average)
Monthly European unemployment signals derived from Eurostat's harmonized unemployment series (35 countries and aggregates, seasonally adjusted, % of labour force): year-on-year and 3-month changes in percentage points, 30-month annualized change volatility, 3-sigma anomaly flags vs a trailing 12-month baseline, naive-drift 1-month forecasts, a per-month cross-country volatility rank, the cross-country dispersion of unemployment rates (the euro labor-market divergence gauge) and each country's distance from the EA21 euro-area average. All rows are country-normalized (ISO alpha-3, aggregates kept as stable codes) so they join cleanly with other country-keyed datasets. Raw data: Eurostat (une_rt_m); derived signals by Frontier Data Hub.
Quality
Attribution
Eurostat (European Commission; derived signals by Frontier Data Hub)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Reference month (first day of the month, YYYY-MM-DD) of the Eurostat une_rt_m unemployment series. |
| country | string | |
| country_code | string | |
| series_id | string | Eurostat SDMX series key for the une_rt_m dataset (e.g. M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.AT): monthly, seasonally adjusted, total unemployment, percentage of population in the labour force; trailing token is the geo code. |
| series_label | string | Eurostat series label as published: frequency, seasonal adjustment, age class, unit (percentage of population in the labour force) and country/aggregate name. |
| value | float | Harmonized unemployment rate as published by Eurostat for une_rt_m: percentage of the labour force (ILO definition), monthly and seasonally adjusted; see the Eurostat labour force survey methodology notes. |
| yoy_change_pp | float | |
| momentum_3m | float | |
| volatility_30d | float | |
| anomaly_flag | integer | |
| forecast_1m | float | |
| rank | integer | |
| dispersion_std | float | |
| ea_gap | float |
Sample rows
| date | country | country_code | series_id | series_label | value | yoy_change_pp | momentum_3m | volatility_30d | anomaly_flag | forecast_1m | rank | dispersion_std | ea_gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-01-01 | Denmark | DNK | M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.DK | Monthly, Seasonally adjusted data, not calendar adjusted data, Total, Percentage of population in the labour force, Total, Denmark | 8.1 | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 3.134798922692536 | — |
| 1983-01-01 | France | FRA | M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.FR | Monthly, Seasonally adjusted data, not calendar adjusted data, Total, Percentage of population in the labour force, Total, France | 7.1 | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 3.134798922692536 | — |
| 1983-01-01 | Ireland | IRL | M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.IE | Monthly, Seasonally adjusted data, not calendar adjusted data, Total, Percentage of population in the labour force, Total, Ireland | 12.9 | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 3.134798922692536 | — |
| 1983-01-01 | Italy | ITA | M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.IT | Monthly, Seasonally adjusted data, not calendar adjusted data, Total, Percentage of population in the labour force, Total, Italy | 6.9 | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 3.134798922692536 | — |
| 1983-01-01 | Luxembourg | LUX | M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.LU | Monthly, Seasonally adjusted data, not calendar adjusted data, Total, Percentage of population in the labour force, Total, Luxembourg | 3.3 | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 3.134798922692536 | — |
Download sample data
Download the full sample snapshot for this dataset (sample rows, not the complete dataset).
Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/euro_unemp_signals/euro_area_unemployment_signals" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/euro_unemp_signals/euro_area_unemployment_signals").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/euro_unemp_signals/euro_area_unemployment_signals
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.