Response Fields

FieldTypeDescriptionExample
CalendarIDstringUnique calendar ID used by Trading Economics“87220”
DatestringRelease time and date in UTC“2016-12-02T13:30:00”
CountrystringCountry original name“United States”
CategorystringCategory original name“20 Year Bond Yield”
EventstringEvent original name“20-Year Bond Auction”
ReferencestringAbbreviated period for which released data refers toNov/26"
ReferenceDatestringReferenceDate refers to the date period for which the datapoint was released“2016-11-30T00:00:00”
SourcestringSource of the data“U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics”
SourceURLstringURL link of the source“http://www.dol.gov”
ActualstringLatest released value“178K”
PreviousstringValue for the previous period after the revision (if revision is applicable)“142K”
ForecaststringAverage forecast among a representative group of economists“175K”
TEForecaststringTE own projections“180K”
URLstringHyperlink at Trading Economics“/united-states/non-farm-payrolls”
DateSpanstring0 Indicates that the time of the event is known, 1 indicates that we only know the date of event, the exact time of event is unknown“0”
Importancenumber1 = low, 2 = medium, 3 = high3
LastUpdatestringTime when new data was inserted or changed“2016-12-02T13:31:00”
RevisedstringValue reported in the previous period after revision161K"
CurrencystringCurrency of the data“C$”
UnitstringUnit of the data“%”
TickerstringUnique ticker used by Trading Economics“NFP TCH”
SymbolstringUnique symbol used by Trading Economics“IJCUSA”



Extra fields available when values=true query string argument is used

FieldTypeDescriptionExample
ActualValuenumberActual field numeric value178000
PreviousValuenumberPrevious field numeric value142000
ForecastValuenumberForecast field numeric value175000
TEForecastValuenumberTEForecast field numeric value180000

Note: The response for this argument is optimized for JSON format only

e.g. https://api.tradingeconomics.com/calendar?c=guest:guest&importance=2&values=true&f=json