Deutsche Bundesbank — Payments Statistics (BBBZ1)

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Payments Statistics (BBBZ1) — official time series from the Deutsche Bundesbank, published as the BBBZ1 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 (22 fields)

Filterable via the API (10)

BBK_STD_FREQBBK_BSPS_REF_SECBBK_BSPS_FORMBBK_BSPS_INSTRUMENTBBK_BSPS_TRANSACTIONBBK_BSPS_ACCESS_TYPEBBK_BSPS_CONTEXTBBK_BSPS_COUNTERPART_AREABBK_BSPS_UNITTIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
BBK_STD_FREQ	dimension	1 codes (e.g. A)
BBK_BSPS_REF_SEC	dimension	1 codes (e.g. ZV00)
BBK_BSPS_FORM	dimension	1 codes (e.g. INET)
BBK_BSPS_INSTRUMENT	dimension	7 codes (e.g. A00, I10, S10)
BBK_BSPS_TRANSACTION	dimension	18 codes (e.g. A12, I00, I20)
BBK_BSPS_ACCESS_TYPE	dimension	19 codes (e.g. 000, A31, I10)
BBK_BSPS_CONTEXT	dimension	3 codes (e.g. IN, TO, FROM)
BBK_BSPS_COUNTERPART_AREA	dimension	3 codes (e.g. DE, A1, Z9)
BBK_BSPS_UNIT	dimension	2 codes (e.g. N, V)
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	attribute	—
BBK_UNIT_MULT	attribute	—
BBK_TITLE_ENG	attribute	—
WEB_CATEGORY	attribute	—
BBK_COMM_SRC_ENG	attribute	—
BBK_COMM_METH_ENG	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: 91161471 · TIME_PERIOD: 2007

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "91161471",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2007",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_BSPS_FORM": "INET",
  "BBK_BSPS_UNIT": "N",
  "BBK_BSPS_CONTEXT": "IN",
  "BBK_BSPS_REF_SEC": "ZV00",
  "BBK_BSPS_INSTRUMENT": "A00",
  "BBK_BSPS_ACCESS_TYPE": "000",
  "BBK_BSPS_TRANSACTION": "A12",
  "BBK_BSPS_COUNTERPART_AREA": "DE"
}

Record 2OBS_VALUE: 91547802 · TIME_PERIOD: 2008

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "91547802",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2008",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_BSPS_FORM": "INET",
  "BBK_BSPS_UNIT": "N",
  "BBK_BSPS_CONTEXT": "IN",
  "BBK_BSPS_REF_SEC": "ZV00",
  "BBK_BSPS_INSTRUMENT": "A00",
  "BBK_BSPS_ACCESS_TYPE": "000",
  "BBK_BSPS_TRANSACTION": "A12",
  "BBK_BSPS_COUNTERPART_AREA": "DE"
}

Record 3OBS_VALUE: 93974039 · TIME_PERIOD: 2009

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "93974039",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2009",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_BSPS_FORM": "INET",
  "BBK_BSPS_UNIT": "N",
  "BBK_BSPS_CONTEXT": "IN",
  "BBK_BSPS_REF_SEC": "ZV00",
  "BBK_BSPS_INSTRUMENT": "A00",
  "BBK_BSPS_ACCESS_TYPE": "000",
  "BBK_BSPS_TRANSACTION": "A12",
  "BBK_BSPS_COUNTERPART_AREA": "DE"
}

Record 4OBS_VALUE: 94981653 · TIME_PERIOD: 2010

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "94981653",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2010",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_BSPS_FORM": "INET",
  "BBK_BSPS_UNIT": "N",
  "BBK_BSPS_CONTEXT": "IN",
  "BBK_BSPS_REF_SEC": "ZV00",
  "BBK_BSPS_INSTRUMENT": "A00",
  "BBK_BSPS_ACCESS_TYPE": "000",
  "BBK_BSPS_TRANSACTION": "A12",
  "BBK_BSPS_COUNTERPART_AREA": "DE"
}

Record 5OBS_VALUE: 95684274 · TIME_PERIOD: 2011

{
  "OBS_VALUE": "95684274",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2011",
  "BBK_STD_FREQ": "A",
  "BBK_BSPS_FORM": "INET",
  "BBK_BSPS_UNIT": "N",
  "BBK_BSPS_CONTEXT": "IN",
  "BBK_BSPS_REF_SEC": "ZV00",
  "BBK_BSPS_INSTRUMENT": "A00",
  "BBK_BSPS_ACCESS_TYPE": "000",
  "BBK_BSPS_TRANSACTION": "A12",
  "BBK_BSPS_COUNTERPART_AREA": "DE"
}

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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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