All Employees, Total Nonfarm
All Employees: Total Nonfarm, commonly known as Total Nonfarm Payroll, is a measure of the number of U.S. workers in the economy that excludes proprietors, private household employees, unpaid volunteers, farm employees, and the unincorporated self-employed. This measure accounts for approximately 80 percent of the workers who contribute to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This measure provides useful insights into the current economic situation because it can represent the number of jobs added or …
Quality
Attribution
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | |
| value | integer |
Sample rows
| date | value |
|---|---|
| 1939-01-01 | 29923 |
| 1939-02-01 | 30100 |
| 1939-03-01 | 30280 |
| 1939-04-01 | 30094 |
| 1939-05-01 | 30299 |
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/fred/payroll_employment" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/payroll_employment").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/fred/payroll_employment
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.