Deutsche Bundesbank — Leading indicators of foreign countries (BBXE1)

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Leading indicators of foreign countries (BBXE1) — official time series from the Deutsche Bundesbank, published as the BBXE1 dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csv) and JSON (?format=json); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters.

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Data schema (21 fields)

Filterable via the API (8)

BBK_STD_FREQBBK_STD_AREABBK_STD_ADJUSTMENTBBK_EXEI_INDICATORBBK_EXEI_BREAKDOWNBBK_EXWA_TYPEBBK_EXWA_SUFFIXTIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
BBK_STD_FREQ	dimension	1 codes (e.g. M)
BBK_STD_AREA	dimension	22 codes (e.g. A1, AT, BE)
BBK_STD_ADJUSTMENT	dimension	2 codes (e.g. CY, W)
BBK_EXEI_INDICATOR	dimension	2 codes (e.g. BBLI, PROD)
BBK_EXEI_BREAKDOWN	dimension	2 codes (e.g. GLIP00, NS0020)
BBK_EXWA_TYPE	dimension	1 codes (e.g. IND)
BBK_EXWA_SUFFIX	dimension	1 codes (e.g. I00)
TIME_PERIOD	time	Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params.
OBS_VALUEObservation value	number	The observed numeric value for each cell.
TIME_FORMAT	attribute	—
BBK_DECIMALS	attribute	—
BBK_ID	attribute	—
BBK_UNIT_ENG	attribute	—
BBK_UNIT_MULT	attribute	—
BBK_TITLE_ENG	attribute	—
BBK_COMM_METH_ENG	attribute	—
BBK_COMM_SRC_ENG	attribute	—
WEB_CATEGORY	attribute	—
BBK_DIFF	attribute	—
BBK_DIFF_Y	attribute	—
OBS_STATUS	attribute	—

Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1OBS_VALUE: 98.53 · TIME_PERIOD: 2003-01

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "98.53",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2003-01",
  "BBK_STD_AREA": "A1",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "M",
  "BBK_EXWA_TYPE": "IND",
  "BBK_EXWA_SUFFIX": "I00",
  "BBK_EXEI_BREAKDOWN": "GLIP00",
  "BBK_EXEI_INDICATOR": "BBLI",
  "BBK_STD_ADJUSTMENT": "CY"
}

Record 2OBS_VALUE: 98.36 · TIME_PERIOD: 2003-02

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "98.36",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2003-02",
  "BBK_STD_AREA": "A1",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "M",
  "BBK_EXWA_TYPE": "IND",
  "BBK_EXWA_SUFFIX": "I00",
  "BBK_EXEI_BREAKDOWN": "GLIP00",
  "BBK_EXEI_INDICATOR": "BBLI",
  "BBK_STD_ADJUSTMENT": "CY"
}

Record 3OBS_VALUE: 98.24 · TIME_PERIOD: 2003-03

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "98.24",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2003-03",
  "BBK_STD_AREA": "A1",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "M",
  "BBK_EXWA_TYPE": "IND",
  "BBK_EXWA_SUFFIX": "I00",
  "BBK_EXEI_BREAKDOWN": "GLIP00",
  "BBK_EXEI_INDICATOR": "BBLI",
  "BBK_STD_ADJUSTMENT": "CY"
}

Record 4OBS_VALUE: 98.29 · TIME_PERIOD: 2003-04

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "98.29",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2003-04",
  "BBK_STD_AREA": "A1",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "M",
  "BBK_EXWA_TYPE": "IND",
  "BBK_EXWA_SUFFIX": "I00",
  "BBK_EXEI_BREAKDOWN": "GLIP00",
  "BBK_EXEI_INDICATOR": "BBLI",
  "BBK_STD_ADJUSTMENT": "CY"
}

Record 5OBS_VALUE: 98.53 · TIME_PERIOD: 2003-05

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "98.53",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2003-05",
  "BBK_STD_AREA": "A1",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "M",
  "BBK_EXWA_TYPE": "IND",
  "BBK_EXWA_SUFFIX": "I00",
  "BBK_EXEI_BREAKDOWN": "GLIP00",
  "BBK_EXEI_INDICATOR": "BBLI",
  "BBK_STD_ADJUSTMENT": "CY"
}

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Query examples

curl -s 'https://api.statistiken.bundesbank.de/rest/metadata/dataflow/BBK' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.sdmx.structure+xml;version=2.1'

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