US JOLTS labor market signals (openings, quits, layoffs churn gauge, anomalies)
Monthly labor-market signals derived from FRED's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS): 30-month annualized change volatility, 3-month momentum, 3-sigma anomaly flags vs a trailing 12-month baseline, naive-drift 1-month forecasts, a per-month cross-series volatility rank, and the quits-minus-layoffs churn spread (the tight-vs-loose labor market gauge). Covers job openings level and rate, quits rate, layoffs & discharges rate and hires rate. All rows are normalized to country_code USA so they join cleanly with US macro data. Raw series: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED); underlying survey: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Quality
Attribution
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED; underlying survey: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; derived signals by Frontier Data Hub)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Observation date (FRED API field date; YYYY-MM-DD, first day of the reference month). |
| country | string | |
| country_code | string | |
| series_id | string | FRED series ID, e.g. JTSJOL, JTSJOR, JTSQUR, JTSLDR, JTSHIR; resolves to the series page at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/<id>. |
| series_label | string | Official FRED series title as published for the series (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). |
| value | float | Observation value as published by FRED for this series: job openings level in thousands of persons (JTSJOL); job openings, quits, layoffs & discharges and hires rates in percent (JTSJOR, JTSQUR, JTSLDR, JTSHIR); see the series notes for methodology and revisions. |
| volatility_30d | float | |
| momentum_3m | float | |
| anomaly_flag | integer | |
| forecast_1m | float | |
| rank | integer | |
| churn_spread | float |
Sample rows
| date | country | country_code | series_id | series_label | value | volatility_30d | momentum_3m | anomaly_flag | forecast_1m | rank | churn_spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-12-01 | United States | USA | JTSHIR | Hires: Total Nonfarm | 4.1 | — | — | 0 | — | — | 0.7000000000000002 |
| 2000-12-01 | United States | USA | JTSJOL | Job Openings: Total Nonfarm | 5088 | — | — | 0 | — | — | 0.7000000000000002 |
| 2000-12-01 | United States | USA | JTSJOR | Job Openings: Total Nonfarm | 3.7 | — | — | 0 | — | — | 0.7000000000000002 |
| 2000-12-01 | United States | USA | JTSLDR | Layoffs and Discharges: Total Nonfarm | 1.5 | — | — | 0 | — | — | 0.7000000000000002 |
| 2000-12-01 | United States | USA | JTSQUR | Quits: Total Nonfarm | 2.2 | — | — | 0 | — | — | 0.7000000000000002 |
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/jolts_signals/us_jolts_labor_signals" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/jolts_signals/us_jolts_labor_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/jolts_signals/us_jolts_labor_signals
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.