Context

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics and serves as a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. The BLS is a governmental statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor representatives. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Labor_Statistics

Content

Bureau of Labor Statistics including CPI (inflation), employment, unemployment, and wage data.

Update Frequency: Monthly

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Acknowledgements

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:bls

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/bureau-of-labor-statistics

Dataset Source: http://www.bls.gov/data/

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Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) from U.S. Department Of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a monthly time series from January 1913. Values are U.S. city averages for all items and 1982-84=100. Note that there are many price indices and this is only one of them (albeit the most standard and with the longest set of data).

Data

Data is sourced from ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt and normalized into a CSV.

License

This Data Package is made available under the Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0 whose full text can be found at: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/

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Bureau of Labor Statistics Asian Newly Industrialized Countries - Import Price Index: Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing for Asian Newly Industrialized Countries was 95.90000 Index 2010=100 in December of 2020, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Bureau of Labor Statistics Asian Newly Industrialized Countries - Import Price Index: Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing for Asian Newly Industrialized Countries reached a record high of 104.40000 in March of 2013 and a record low of 91.10000 in November of 2019. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Bureau of Labor Statistics Asian Newly Industrialized Countries - Import Price Index: Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing for Asian Newly Industrialized Countries - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

description: Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) contains annual time-series data for over 400 coastal counties, 30 coastal states, 8 regions, and the nation, derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. It describes six economic sectors that depend on the oceans and Great Lakes and measures four economic indicators: Establishments, Employment, Wages, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).; abstract: Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) contains annual time-series data for over 400 coastal counties, 30 coastal states, 8 regions, and the nation, derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. It describes six economic sectors that depend on the oceans and Great Lakes and measures four economic indicators: Establishments, Employment, Wages, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).