EU monthly unemployment rate

At a glance

Publisher

Eurostat · homepage

Category

Economic indicators & prices

Jurisdiction

European Union

Publisher updates

Monthly (early in the month)

SourceFinch checks

Daily by default

Records per run

60 in the latest run

Record key

period

Acquired from

Publisher's public API: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/sdmx/2.1/data/une_rt_m/M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.EU27_2020?format=SDMX-CSV&lastNObservations=60

Recipe

v1.0.0, approved October 13, 2026

Verified since

October 13, 2026

Last green run

October 13, 2026

What the data contains

Eurostat publishes monthly unemployment estimates for the EU and the euro area at the start of each month, based on the ILO definition and harmonised across member states. This source reads the seasonally adjusted total unemployment rate for the EU of 27 member states (EU27_2020), all ages and both sexes, as a percentage of the active population, from Eurostat's dataset une_rt_m through its SDMX dissemination API: the last 60 monthly observations on each daily run, one record per month keyed by the period (YYYY-MM), with Eurostat's observation flag. Monthly figures are revised as quarterly Labour Force Survey results arrive, and a monitor reports each new month and each revision. SourceFinch is independent of Eurostat.

Fields and types

Every record has these fields. The key field period identifies a record across runs, so changes are reported field by field.

Sample output

The first 5 of 60 records from SourceFinch's own run on October 13, 2026, exactly as delivered.

[
  {
    "geo": "EU27_2020",
    "flag": null,
    "unit": "PC_ACT",
    "value": 6.7,
    "period": "2021-09",
    "seasonal_adjustment": "SA"
  },
  {
    "geo": "EU27_2020",
    "flag": null,
    "unit": "PC_ACT",
    "value": 6.6,
    "period": "2021-10",
    "seasonal_adjustment": "SA"
  },
  {
    "geo": "EU27_2020",
    "flag": null,
    "unit": "PC_ACT",
    "value": 6.5,
    "period": "2021-11",
    "seasonal_adjustment": "SA"
  },
  {
    "geo": "EU27_2020",
    "flag": null,
    "unit": "PC_ACT",
    "value": 6.5,
    "period": "2021-12",
    "seasonal_adjustment": "SA"
  },
  {
    "geo": "EU27_2020",
    "flag": null,
    "unit": "PC_ACT",
    "value": 6.4,
    "period": "2022-01",
    "seasonal_adjustment": "SA"
  }
]

Evidence behind every value

• Each run keeps the publisher's exact response, hashed with SHA-256. This sample came from a response with hash 4d5e6ed0cca46303dc824d96b57f9fd09b15d0b04cc93791a70aca60cb03e09e.
• Every value records where it came from in that response: a CSS path into the retained capture.
• Each run gets a signed manifest (Ed25519) timestamped by an RFC 3161 authority: this run's manifest hash is 7dffd4da181939708368516145c35ebaf434b38fd07da2ec01ebe7447e0ea63a, timestamped October 13, 2026.
• The compliance state at capture is recorded with the evidence: robots.txt hash and verdict, AI-preference signals, crawler identity and the usage rights below.
• Download any run as an evidence bundle (WACZ) and check it offline, without trusting SourceFinch: sourcefinch verify-bundle run.wacz.

Terms posture and usage rights

Eurostat's copyright notice states that reuse of its statistical data, metadata and publications for commercial or non-commercial purposes is authorised provided the source is acknowledged, under the European Commission's reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU); the website's editorial content is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Third-party material identified as such is excluded; these series are Eurostat's own statistics. ec.europa.eu/robots.txt allows the dissemination API path (it disallows the retired /eurostat/SDMX/diss-web/rest/ service and search pages). The API is keyless; this source makes one small request per daily run.

Source: Eurostat. Reused under the European Commission's reuse policy. SourceFinch is independent of and not endorsed by Eurostat or the European Commission.

Usage rights travel with every record SourceFinch delivers (API, exports, webhooks and evidence bundles). They are our documented understanding of the publisher's stated terms, not legal advice.

Reliability

Runs, last 30 days

1

Green

0%

Failed

1

Median run time

1.1 s

Latest run

success, October 13, 2026

Measured on completed runs of this recipe version across SourceFinch, anonymized, within a rolling 30-day window. First successful observation: October 13, 2026. A new recipe has only the history collected since that date; this is not a 30-day uptime guarantee.

Use it

Every surface creates the same monitor from this Verified recipe. Monitors keep record history, report field-level changes and deliver by webhook, export or email. You confirm you have the right to collect the source (rights: true).

{
  "schema": "sourcefinch/source@1",
  "name": "EU monthly unemployment rate",
  "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/sdmx/2.1/data/une_rt_m/M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.EU27_2020?format=SDMX-CSV&lastNObservations=60",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "csv",
    "items": "*",
    "fields": {
      "geo": "geo",
      "flag": "OBS_FLAG",
      "unit": "unit",
      "value": "OBS_VALUE",
      "period": "TIME_PERIOD",
      "seasonal_adjustment": "s_adj"
    },
    "required": [
      "period",
      "value"
    ],
    "csv": {
      "delimiter": ",",
      "header": true,
      "encoding": "utf-8"
    },
    "types": {
      "value": "number"
    }
  },
  "schedule": "daily",
  "key_field": "period"
}

{
  "name": "EU monthly unemployment rate",
  "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/sdmx/2.1/data/une_rt_m/M.SA.TOTAL.PC_ACT.T.EU27_2020?format=SDMX-CSV&lastNObservations=60",
  "recipe": {
    "mode": "http",
    "format": "csv",
    "items": "*",
    "fields": {
      "geo": "geo",
      "flag": "OBS_FLAG",
      "unit": "unit",
      "value": "OBS_VALUE",
      "period": "TIME_PERIOD",
      "seasonal_adjustment": "s_adj"
    },
    "required": [
      "period",
      "value"
    ],
    "csv": {
      "delimiter": ",",
      "header": true,
      "encoding": "utf-8"
    },
    "types": {
      "value": "number"
    }
  },
  "key_field": "period",
  "schedule": "daily",
  "rights": true,
  "catalog": {
    "slug": "eurostat-eu-unemployment-rate",
    "version_id": "e9f00508-f8f8-4ffd-b324-ca7fc4cf0570"
  }
}

# the Verified entry (fields, recipe, sample, terms) as JSON
curl https://sourcefinch.com/v1/catalog/eurostat-eu-unemployment-rate -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY"

# create the monitor from source.json (below)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d @source.json

# then run it now (later runs follow the schedule)
curl -X POST https://sourcefinch.com/v1/sources/$SOURCE_ID/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"

sourcefinch login
sourcefinch catalog get eurostat-eu-unemployment-rate --source-json > source.json
sourcefinch sources create --file source.json
sourcefinch runs create $SOURCE_ID --wait
sourcefinch records $SOURCE_ID

import { SourceFinch } from "@sourcefinch/sdk";

const sf = new SourceFinch({ apiKey: process.env.SOURCEFINCH_API_KEY });
const entry = await sf.catalog.get("eurostat-eu-unemployment-rate");
const source = await sf.sources.create({
  catalog: { slug: entry.slug, version_id: entry.recipe.version_id },
  name: entry.name.slice(0, 100),
  url: entry.acquisition_path.endpoint,
  recipe: entry.recipe.definition,
  key_field: entry.recipe.key_field,
  schedule: entry.recipe.schedule,
  rights: true, // you confirm you have the right to collect this source
});
const run = await sf.runs.wait((await sf.runs.create(source.id)).id);
console.log(run.status);

claude mcp add --transport http sourcefinch https://sourcefinch.com/mcp

# then ask your agent:
"Use SourceFinch to monitor EU monthly unemployment rate: get_catalog_source eurostat-eu-unemployment-rate,
then create_source with its create_source_args (dry run first), then run_source."

Pricing

Each check is one run, whatever the number of records, and failed runs are free. On its default daily schedule this source uses about 30 runs a month, which fits the Free plan's 300 runs. It uses HTTP acquisition, so no browser runs are needed. See plans.

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