# data/README.md — F3-dev-01

# UNRATE.csv

Series: UNRATE — Unemployment Rate, United States, percent, seasonally adjusted, monthly. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).
Retrieval URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=UNRATE
Retrieved (UTC): 2026-10-30T03:20:36Z
SHA-256: 621ff6fadf50910cb7a21ee20ba610c247cb043b29b4e05c4c1a72fadca2a06c
Format: exactly as served by FRED: header observation_date,UNRATE, one row per month dated on the first day of the month (YYYY-MM-01), 945 data rows from 1948-01-01 to 2026-09-01. Missing observations are served as an empty value field.
Units: percent of the civilian labour force.
Vintage caveat: this is the current (final) vintage as of the retrieval time. Values may have been revised since their first publication (annual seasonal-factor revisions). Rolling-origin results on this file therefore measure forecastability of the revised series, not historical real-time performance.
License / terms: FRED terms of use (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/); BLS data are public domain.