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      "frequency": "Monthly",
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    },
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      "frequency": "Monthly",
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      "definition": "Employed share of the population aged 16 and over",
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      "frequency": "Monthly",
      "indicator": "Nonfarm payroll employment",
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      "key_reference": "Released in the Employment Situation on the first Friday of the month",
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    },
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      "frequency": "Monthly",
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      "frequency": "Monthly",
      "indicator": "Quits rate",
      "definition": "Voluntary separations as a percent of employment",
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    },
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      "frequency": "Monthly",
      "indicator": "Average hourly earnings",
      "definition": "Average pay of private nonfarm employees",
      "key_reference": "Watched for wage-growth trends",
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    },
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      "frequency": "Quarterly",
      "indicator": "Employment Cost Index (ECI)",
      "definition": "Change in total compensation, including wages and benefits",
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      "frequency": "Weekly",
      "indicator": "Initial unemployment claims",
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      "key_reference": "Timely weekly signal, released Thursdays",
      "survey_agency": "DOL Employment and Training Administration"
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      "frequency": "Quarterly",
      "indicator": "Labor productivity",
      "definition": "Output produced per hour worked",
      "key_reference": "Key driver of long-run living standards",
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      "frequency": "Set by statute",
      "indicator": "Federal minimum wage",
      "definition": "The statutory federal wage floor under the Fair Labor Standards Act",
      "key_reference": "$7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009",
      "survey_agency": "DOL Wage and Hour Division"
    },
    {
      "frequency": "Monthly",
      "indicator": "Prime-age participation rate",
      "definition": "Labor force participation of adults aged 25 to 54",
      "key_reference": "Reduces the effect of aging and schooling",
      "survey_agency": "BLS Current Population Survey"
    }
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    {
      "url": "https://www.bls.gov/",
      "name": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics"
    },
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      "url": "https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta",
      "name": "U.S. Department of Labor — Employment and Training Administration"
    }
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  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
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    "frequency": "Release frequency",
    "indicator": "Name of the labor-market indicator",
    "definition": "What the indicator measures",
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    "survey_agency": "Survey and agency that produces it"
  },
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    "Anchor labor dashboards to authoritative indicator definitions",
    "Support workforce planning and reporting with citable BLS facts",
    "Ground research and briefings in official survey methodology"
  ]
}