Unemployment is a monthly economics series on Kalshi, with markets like “Will the unemployment rate (U-3) be above 5.0% in September?”. The Kalshi Eye archive lists 70 of its markets and has 13 days of daily Parquet files from October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026 (20 MB), with every order book change and trade.

Venue: Kalshi, series KXU3
Category: Economics, monthly
Markets: 70 (42 settled, 28 open)
Files: 13 days, October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026, 20 MB, 1,713,317 rows
Datasets: Order book (L2, incremental), Order book snapshots (top 10, 1 second), Top of book (every change), Top of book (1-minute bars), Trades

Open Unemployment in Markets to see every day and market, then export the days you need. Free sample files of each dataset are on the Kalshi data page.

Reading the files

Every KXU3 trade on October 24, 2026, in DuckDB:

SELECT ts_recv, ticker, yes_price, size, taker_side
FROM 'kalshieye-data/trades/date=2026-10-24/series=KXU3/trades-KXU3-2026-10-24.parquet'
ORDER BY ts_recv;

To test a strategy on this series, see How to backtest Kalshi markets.

Related Kalshi series

Monthly Unemployment (KXUE): 186 markets, 13 days of files
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE MONTHLY (KXECONSTATU3): 115 markets, 13 days of files
U.S. unemployment rate at year-end (KXU3EOY): 165 markets, 13 days of files
Unemployment spike (KXU3MAX): 24 markets, 13 days of files
Year over year inflation (KXECONSTATCPIYOY): 119 markets, 13 days of files
CPI-U index in [month] (KXCPINDEX): 111 markets, 13 days of files

Figures through October 24, 2026. All Kalshi series with pages are listed on Kalshi series.