US Bureau of Labor Statistics

StatisticsUS

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US labour statistics: consumer prices, unemployment, employment, earnings and productivity, as dated time series.

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Capabilities (4)

GET /v1/data/bls/popular1 credit

The series BLS reports as most requested, across all surveys or within one.

survey?

GET /v1/data/bls/series1 credit

Observations for one BLS series: period, year and value, optionally with net and percent changes over 1, 3, 6 and 12 periods.

seriesIdstartyear?endyear?calculations?annualaverage?aspects?latest?

GET /v1/data/bls/survey1 credit

One survey: its abbreviation, name and the series-id structure it uses.

surveyAbbreviation

GET /v1/data/bls/surveys1 credit

Every BLS survey with its two-letter abbreviation and full name, which is the starting point for finding series.

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Licence

A work of the United States Government, not subject to domestic copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. BLS publishes its data for free public use and asks that it be cited as the source.

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Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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