Economics, Labor & Consumer Behavior
Labor, Inflation & Wages
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Time-series modeling (CPI, unemployment rates), wage regressions, seasonal adjustments.
📊 Overview
Platform: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Domain: Labor, Inflation & Wages
Maintained by: U.S. Dept. of Labor
📥 Access & Resources
Access and formats:
CSV, Text dumps, API
R wrapper package:
blsR
Python wrapper package:
python-bls
🎯 Teaching & Analysis
Time-series modeling (CPI, unemployment rates), wage regressions, seasonal adjustments.
Use this dataset to
- Retrieve official inflation and employment series
- Analyze CPI, wages, unemployment, and producer prices
- Build labor-market time-series models
- Apply seasonal adjustment and forecasting techniques