US state unemployment signals (50 states + DC, regional divergence, anomalies)
Value-added regional labor signals derived from FRED's free BLS state unemployment-rate series: all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, monthly seasonally adjusted. Each row carries change volatility, 3-month momentum, 12-month change (pp), a trailing-1y rate z-score, 3-sigma anomaly flags, naive-drift 1-month forecasts, a per-month cross-state volatility rank, and the cross-state unemployment dispersion gauge (regional labor-market divergence). All computation is local pandas/numpy; no paid models or APIs.
Quality
Attribution
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED; derived signals by Frontier Data Hub
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Observation date (FRED API field date; YYYY-MM-DD; monthly, first of month). |
| country | string | |
| country_code | string | |
| series_id | string | FRED series ID of the form <USPS>UR, e.g. CAUR (California), TXUR (Texas), DCUR (District of Columbia); resolves to the series page at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/<id>. |
| series_label | string | Official FRED series title as published for the series (state unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted). |
| value | float | Unemployment rate as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the state (percent, seasonally adjusted); see the series notes for methodology and revisions. |
| volatility_30d | float | |
| momentum_3m | float | |
| yoy_change_pct | float | |
| rate_z_1y | float | |
| anomaly_flag | integer | |
| forecast_1m | float | |
| rank | integer | |
| us_dispersion_std | float |
Sample rows
| date | country | country_code | series_id | series_label | value | volatility_30d | momentum_3m | yoy_change_pct | rate_z_1y | anomaly_flag | forecast_1m | rank | us_dispersion_std |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-01-01 | United States | USA | AKUR | Unemployment Rate in Alaska | 7.1 | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 1.9453191683285975 |
| 1976-01-01 | United States | USA | ALUR | Unemployment Rate in Alabama | 6.7 | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 1.9453191683285975 |
| 1976-01-01 | United States | USA | ARUR | Unemployment Rate in Arkansas | 7.3 | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 1.9453191683285975 |
| 1976-01-01 | United States | USA | AZUR | Unemployment Rate in Arizona | 10.2 | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 1.9453191683285975 |
| 1976-01-01 | United States | USA | CAUR | Unemployment Rate in California | 9.2 | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | — | 1.9453191683285975 |
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/state_labor_signals/us_state_unemployment_signals" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/state_labor_signals/us_state_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/state_labor_signals/us_state_unemployment_signals
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.