UNRATE
Source: FRED (St. Louis Fed)944 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026
unemploymentlaborfred
Quality
100
Attribution
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | |
| value | float |
Sample rows
| date | value |
|---|---|
| 1948-01-01 | 3.4 |
| 1948-02-01 | 3.8 |
| 1948-03-01 | 4 |
| 1948-04-01 | 3.9 |
| 1948-05-01 | 3.5 |
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/unemployment_rate" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/unemployment_rate").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/unemployment_rate
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.