European Central Bank — AMECO (AME)

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AMECO (AME) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the AME dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csvdata) and JSON (?format=jsondata); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters. Browse and chart the same series on the ECB Data Portal.

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Data schema (20 fields)

Filterable via the API (8)

FREQAME_REF_AREAAME_TRANSFORMATIONAME_AGG_METHODAME_UNITAME_REFERENCEAME_ITEMTIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	Frequency of the time series, e.g. annual.1 codes (e.g. Annual)
AME_REF_AREAAmeco reference area	dimension	Country or reference area code for the series.31 codes (e.g. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria)
AME_TRANSFORMATIONAmeco transformation	dimension	Data transformation applied, e.g. original data or moving average.1 codes (e.g. Original data and moving arithmetic mean)
AME_AGG_METHODAmeco aggregation method	dimension	Method used to aggregate the data.1 codes (e.g. Standard aggregation)
AME_UNITAmeco unit	dimension	Unit of measurement, e.g. national currency or percentage of GDP.2 codes (e.g. National currency, Percentage of GDP at market prices (excessive deficit procedure))
AME_REFERENCEAmeco reference	dimension	Reference basis used for the series, if any.1 codes (e.g. No reference)
AME_ITEMAmeco item	dimension	Economic indicator or item measured, e.g. GDP or unemployment rate.4 codes (e.g. GDP, at constant prices, Unemployment rate - total - Member States - definition EUROSTAT, Net lending (pos) or net borrowing (neg) - general government - Excessive deficit procedure (Including one-off proceeds relative to the allocation of mobile phone licences (UMTS)))
TIME_PERIODTime period or range	time	Time period of the observation; filterable via startPeriod/endPeriod.Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params.
OBS_VALUEObservation value	number	The observed numeric value for each cell.
TIME_FORMATTime format code	attribute	Code indicating the format of the time period.Code indicating the format of the time period.
PUBL_ECBSource publication (ECB only)	attribute	Publication source reference used by the ECB only.Publication source reference used by the ECB only.
PUBL_MUSource publication (Euro area only)	attribute	Publication source reference used for the euro area only.Publication source reference used for the euro area only.
PUBL_PUBLICSource publication (public)	attribute	Publicly available publication source reference.Publicly available publication source reference.
COMPILATION	attribute	Notes on how the data was compiled.Notes on how the data was compiled.
EXT_TITLEExternal title	attribute	Title of the series as given by the external source.Title of the series as given by the external source.
EXT_UNITExternal unit	attribute	Unit of measurement as given by the external source.Unit of measurement as given by the external source.
TITLE_COMPLTitle complement	attribute	Additional descriptive text complementing the series title.Additional descriptive text complementing the series title.
OBS_STATUSObservation status	attribute	Status code indicating the nature of the observation, e.g. estimated or provisional.Status code indicating the nature of the observation, e.g. estimated or provisional.
OBS_CONFObservation confidentiality	attribute	Confidentiality status of the observation.Confidentiality status of the observation.
OBS_PRE_BREAKPre-break observation value	attribute	Observation value recorded just before a data break.Observation value recorded just before a data break.

Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1FREQ: A · AME_ITEM: OVGD

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "AME_ITEM": "OVGD",
  "AME_UNIT": "0",
  "OBS_VALUE": 422.839,
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2027",
  "AME_REF_AREA": "AUT",
  "AME_REFERENCE": "0",
  "AME_AGG_METHOD": "0",
  "AME_TRANSFORMATION": "1"
}

Record 2FREQ: A · AME_ITEM: ZUTN

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "AME_ITEM": "ZUTN",
  "AME_UNIT": "0",
  "OBS_VALUE": 5.6,
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2027",
  "AME_REF_AREA": "AUT",
  "AME_REFERENCE": "0",
  "AME_AGG_METHOD": "0",
  "AME_TRANSFORMATION": "1"
}

Record 3FREQ: A · AME_ITEM: UBLGE

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "AME_ITEM": "UBLGE",
  "AME_UNIT": "319",
  "OBS_VALUE": -4.135,
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2027",
  "AME_REF_AREA": "AUT",
  "AME_REFERENCE": "0",
  "AME_AGG_METHOD": "0",
  "AME_TRANSFORMATION": "1"
}

Record 4FREQ: A · AME_ITEM: UDGGL

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "AME_ITEM": "UDGGL",
  "AME_UNIT": "319",
  "OBS_VALUE": 84.858,
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2027",
  "AME_REF_AREA": "AUT",
  "AME_REFERENCE": "0",
  "AME_AGG_METHOD": "0",
  "AME_TRANSFORMATION": "1"
}

Record 5FREQ: A · AME_ITEM: OVGD

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "AME_ITEM": "OVGD",
  "AME_UNIT": "0",
  "OBS_VALUE": 540.093,
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2027",
  "AME_REF_AREA": "BEL",
  "AME_REFERENCE": "0",
  "AME_AGG_METHOD": "0",
  "AME_TRANSFORMATION": "1"
}

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