European Central Bank — Balance Sheet Items (BSI)
Balance Sheet Items (BSI) is an official time series dataset published by the European Central Bank via its Data Portal, covering monetary financial institutions' balance sheet statistics across the euro area. Data is distributed as the BSI dataflow through the SDMX 2.1 REST API, with a single endpoint serving XML (SDMX-ML), CSV, and JSON formats. Users can extract specific series using a key path together with startPeriod, endPeriod, or lastNObservations filters. The same series can also be browsed and charted interactively on the ECB Data Portal, making the dataset useful for monetary and economic analysis.Balance Sheet Items (BSI) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the BSI 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 (12 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | Time series frequency, e.g. monthly, quarterly or annual.3 codes (e.g. Quarterly, Monthly, Annual) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | Country or area to which the balance sheet data refer.31 codes (e.g. Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy) |
| ADJUSTMENTAdjustment indicator | dimension | Indicates whether data are seasonally and/or working-day adjusted.2 codes (e.g. Neither seasonally nor working day adjusted, Working day and seasonally adjusted) |
| BS_REP_SECTORBS reference sector breakdown | dimension | Reporting institutional sector for the balance sheet data.13 codes (e.g. MFIs excluding ESCB, Money Market Funds (MFIs excluding Eurosystem, credit institutions and other institutions), Deposit-taking corporations except the central bank (S.122)) |
| BS_ITEMBalance sheet item | dimension | Specific balance sheet item being measured, e.g. deposits or equity.105 codes (e.g. Deposit liabilities, Debt securities issued, Money Market Funds shares/units) |
| MATURITY_ORIGOriginal maturity | dimension | Original maturity band of the financial instrument.17 codes (e.g. Total, Not applicable, Original maturity over 2 years, remaining maturity over 2 years and interest rate reset within the next 24 months) |
| DATA_TYPE | dimension | Type of data recorded, e.g. stocks, flows or index.11 codes (e.g. Outstanding amounts at the end of the period (stocks), Index of Notional Stocks, Financial transactions (flows)) |
| COUNT_AREACounterpart area | dimension | Counterpart geographic area for the balance sheet position.38 codes (e.g. Domestic (home or reference area), All areas other than Euro area and ref./home area, All areas other than EU and ref./home area) |
| BS_COUNT_SECTORBS counterpart sector | dimension | Institutional sector of the counterpart in the balance sheet.42 codes (e.g. Monetary financial institutions (MFIs), Non-MFIs, Unspecified counterpart sector) |
| CURRENCY_TRANSCurrency of transaction | dimension | Currency in which the underlying transaction is denominated.20 codes (e.g. All currencies other than domestic, Euro and euro area currencies, All currencies other than domestic, All currencies other than EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, JPY and domestic) |
| BS_SUFFIXBalance sheet suffix | dimension | Additional qualifier for the balance sheet series, e.g. growth rate.10 codes (e.g. Euro, Annual growth rate, Not applicable) |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | Numeric value of the observation for this data point.The observed numeric value for each cell. |
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