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European Central Bank — CAR dataflow
Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the CAR dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csvdata) and JSON (?format=jsondata), with key-path and period filters.
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Data schema (30 fields)
Filterable via the API (9)
FREQREF_AREAADJUSTMENTCAR_CONCEPTCAR_CLASSDATA_PROVIDERTRANSFORMATIONUNIT_MEASURETIME_PERIOD
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Monthly) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. Euro area 21 (fixed composition) as of 1 January 2026, Euro area 20 (fixed composition) as of 1 January 2023) |
| ADJUSTMENTAdjustment indicator | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. Neither seasonally nor working day adjusted, Working day and seasonally adjusted) |
| CAR_CONCEPT | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Car registration) |
| CAR_CLASS | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. New passenger car) |
| DATA_PROVIDER | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers Association), European Central Bank (ECB)) |
| TRANSFORMATION | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Non transformed data) |
| UNIT_MEASUREUnit of measure | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Pure number) |
| TIME_PERIODTime period or range | time | Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params. |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | The observed numeric value for each cell. |
| TIME_FORMATTime format code | attribute | — |
| ADJU_DETAILAdjustment detail | attribute | — |
| BREAKS | attribute | — |
| COMMENT_TSSeries comment including brief description of the underlying statistic | attribute | — |
| COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation | attribute | — |
| COVERAGE | attribute | — |
| DATA_COMPUnderlying compilation | attribute | — |
| DECIMALS | attribute | — |
| DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation | attribute | — |
| DOM_SER_IDSDomestic series ids | attribute | — |
| TIME_PER_COLLECTTime period collection | attribute | — |
| TITLE | attribute | — |
| TITLE_COMPLTitle complement | attribute | — |
| UNIT_INDEX_BASE | attribute | — |
| UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier | attribute | — |
| UPDATE_STATUS | attribute | — |
| OBS_STATUSObservation status | attribute | — |
| CONF_STATUSConfidentiality status | attribute | — |
| PRE_BREAK_VALUE | attribute | — |
| COMMENT_OBSComments to the observation value | attribute | — |
Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.
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Sample data (4 records)
Record 1FREQ: M · REF_AREA: I10
{
"FREQ": "M",
"REF_AREA": "I10",
"CAR_CLASS": "PC0000",
"OBS_VALUE": 816314,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"CAR_CONCEPT": "CREG",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-05",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
"DATA_PROVIDER": "4Z1",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 2FREQ: M · REF_AREA: I10
{
"FREQ": "M",
"REF_AREA": "I10",
"CAR_CLASS": "PC0000",
"OBS_VALUE": 806354.1,
"ADJUSTMENT": "Y",
"CAR_CONCEPT": "CREG",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-05",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
"DATA_PROVIDER": "4F0",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 3FREQ: M · REF_AREA: I9
{
"FREQ": "M",
"REF_AREA": "I9",
"CAR_CLASS": "PC0000",
"OBS_VALUE": 812021,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"CAR_CONCEPT": "CREG",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-05",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
"DATA_PROVIDER": "4Z1",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 4FREQ: M · REF_AREA: I9
{
"FREQ": "M",
"REF_AREA": "I9",
"CAR_CLASS": "PC0000",
"OBS_VALUE": 801936.6,
"ADJUSTMENT": "Y",
"CAR_CONCEPT": "CREG",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2026-05",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
"DATA_PROVIDER": "4F0",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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