Unemployment rate
Shows the unemployment rate among people in the civilian labor force in the surrounding postcode. Known or imputed for 33,377 postcodes — 98.3% of the postcodes Faraday knows.
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At a glance
- Coverage today
- 98.3%
- Typical coverage
- 98.3%
- Postcodes with a value
- 33.4K
- Median
- 0.04
- Most values come
- from the area
- Latest collection
- Dec 31, 2018
Distribution
n = 33,377Share of postcodes with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between 0.02 and 0.06, shaded darkest.
P10 means 10% of postcodes have a value at or below this one, and P90 means 90% do. P25 and P75 bound the middle half. The median is the middle: half are below it, half above.
Coverage
Latest collection: 41,117 postcodesCoverage by state
Percentage of postcodes in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
98.3% todayShare of postcodes holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
How we arrive at a value
Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.
- On the person — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From address — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From geography — 100%
- Estimated from other people in their postcode or region.
Coverage, in context
Where 98.3% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 46% of postcode-level attributes in the catalog
Freshness
How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of postcodes in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.
Contribution ledger
4 ingestions1 authority contributed since Dec 2021.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41,117 | e2d21660-1ea6-430a-8bf9-33673e10fdd6 | ||
| 41,045 | 263a35d2-5801-4741-b944-e98bac372850 | ||
| 41,045 | 2a630c8a-310d-4609-85f0-6b111e297fd3 | ||
| 41,045 | bd04e3fc-186d-491b-8619-c4aa7f2f47a9 |
Related attributes
Attributes whose descriptions are closest to this one.
Use it in the API
Send an email, phone, or address. Get Unemployment rate back in real time.
- Add
unemployment_rateto a project. - Send an email, phone, or address to the project's append endpoint. The response carries Unemployment rate for the matched person.
curl -X POST 'https://api.pro.faraday.ai/v1/projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/append' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"email": "jane.doe@example.com"
}'→ {"attributes":{"unemployment_rate":0.0406}}Technical details
- API name
- unemployment_rate
- Category
- fig/demography
- Type · unit
- null
- Statistical type
- null
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- null
- Directionality
- null
- Deprecation
- false