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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics vs FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) — Modern Reference
How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
Verdict
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics outscores FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) on Modern Citation Reference by 1 points (A · 93 vs A · 92).
Higher Modern Reference
Government
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
bls.gov
A·93
Rank #9 of 130 on Modern Reference
Free public APIs (LABSTAT) + bulk downloads + CSV/JSON data formats.
Government
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
fred.stlouisfed.org
A·92
Rank #19 of 130 on Modern Reference
Free public API + bulk downloads + visualization tools; broad LLM corpus.
Global rank · Modern Reference
Why these Modern Reference scores
U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsA·93
Modern Reference · 93/100
Free public APIs (LABSTAT) + bulk downloads + CSV/JSON data formats.
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)A·92
Modern Reference · 92/100
Free public API + bulk downloads + visualization tools; broad LLM corpus.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- BLS Public Data APIFree REST API with full series data.
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
- FRED APIFree public REST API for ~800k economic series.
Other dimensions for U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics vs FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
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