Source snapshot: junior software developer hiring story

All files retrieved 10 October 2026 by the fetch scripts in this folder. Each *-manifest.json records the exact URLs, byte counts and SHA-256 hashes. Re-running a fetch script fetches the source's current version, which may differ; the committed files are the ones the charts use.

File	Source	URL	Licence
`indeed-software-vs-all.csv` (from `fetch-indeed.mjs`)	Indeed Hiring Lab, Job Postings Index: "Software Development" sector and all postings, total postings, seasonally adjusted, 1 Feb 2020 = 100, for US, GB, CA, DE, FR, AU. Thinned to one reading a week (every seventh day from 1 Feb 2020) plus the latest day, 2 Oct 2026.	https://github.com/hiring-lab/job_postings_tracker	CC BY 4.0 (the repository's `LICENSE`). Attribution: Indeed Hiring Lab.
`canaries_software_developers.csv` (from `fetch-canaries.mjs`)	Stanford Digital Economy Lab, AI Economic Indicators, "Canaries" software developers results: monthly US employment index for software developers by six age bands, Nov 2022 = 100, Sep 2021 to Aug 2026, vintage 2026-09-17. Built from ADP payroll records by Brynjolfsson, Chandar and Chen. One member of the ZIP, unchanged.	https://storage.googleapis.com/aviary-del-public/release_memos/latest/downloads/canaries_software_developers_results.zip, linked from https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/project/indicators/canaries-dashboard/	No licence stated. Offered as a public download with a suggested citation. Used here with attribution; the owner should confirm before republishing it as data on DataHub.
`cps-software-by-age.csv` (from `fetch-cps.mjs`)	US Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, basic monthly public-use microdata, Jan 2020 to Sep 2026. Aggregated here: weighted persons (composited weight `PWCMPWGT`) and record counts by month, occupation (2018 Census codes 1010, 1021, 1022), age band and employed/unemployed. The raw files (about 10 MB each) are not kept. October 2025 has no file: it was not collected during the federal government shutdown. October 2021 and January 2024 were read from the CSV version because the server refused the fixed-width file.	https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/	US government work, public domain.
`nyfed-college-labor-outcomes-by-major-data.csv`, `nyfed-college-labor-unemployment-data.csv`, `nyfed-college-labor-chart-meta.json` (from `fetch-nyfed.mjs`)	Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "The Labor Market for Recent College Graduates". Outcomes by major: released 4 February 2026, data for 2024 (American Community Survey). Unemployment series: released 6 August 2026, data to June 2026 (CPS). Recent graduates are aged 22 to 27. Unchanged.	https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market	New York Fed Terms of Use: use, copy and distribute with attribution; do not imply endorsement. "The data do not represent official estimates of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."

Run any script with node <script> from this folder. fetch-cps.mjs downloads about 1 GB; set CPS_CACHE=<dir> to keep the raw files for re-runs.