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European Central Bank — PAY dataflow
Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PAY 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 (28 fields)
Filterable via the API (9)
FREQREF_AREACOUNT_AREATYP_TRNSCTNRL_TRNSCTNFRD_TYPTRANSFORMATIONUNIT_MEASURETIME_PERIOD
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Annual, Half-yearly, Quarterly) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | 29 codes (e.g. Austria, EU (Member States and Institutions of the European Union) changing composition, Belgium) |
| COUNT_AREACounterpart area | dimension | 51 codes (e.g. Bulgaria, Slovakia, World (all entities, including reference area, including IO)) |
| TYP_TRNSCTNPayment transaction type | dimension | 14 codes (e.g. Total payment transactions, Credit transfers, Total payment transactions, excluding cash withdrawals) |
| RL_TRNSCTNRole in transaction | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Payer's payment service provider (PSP), Payee's payment service provider (PSP), Not applicable) |
| FRD_TYPFraud type | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. Not applicable (total transactions including both non-fraud and fraud), Fraud) |
| TRANSFORMATION | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. Non transformed data, Growth rate %, period on period) |
| UNIT_MEASUREUnit of measure | dimension | 15 codes (e.g. Pure number, Euro, Euro; ratio to number of transactions) |
| 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 | — |
| BREAKS | attribute | — |
| COMMENT_TSSeries comment including brief description of the underlying statistic | attribute | — |
| COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation | attribute | — |
| DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation | attribute | — |
| TIME_PER_COLLECTTime period collection | attribute | — |
| COVERAGE | attribute | — |
| DATA_COMPUnderlying compilation | attribute | — |
| DECIMALS | attribute | — |
| METHOD_REFMethodology reference | attribute | — |
| TITLE | attribute | — |
| TITLE_COMPLTitle complement | attribute | — |
| UNIT | attribute | — |
| UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier | 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 (5 records)
Record 1FREQ: A · FRD_TYP: _Z
{
"FREQ": "A",
"FRD_TYP": "_Z",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"OBS_VALUE": 1.1512029999999998,
"COUNT_AREA": "BG",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "TOTL",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 2FREQ: A · FRD_TYP: _Z
{
"FREQ": "A",
"FRD_TYP": "_Z",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"OBS_VALUE": 14627.61073409,
"COUNT_AREA": "SK",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "CT0",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 3FREQ: A · FRD_TYP: _Z
{
"FREQ": "A",
"FRD_TYP": "_Z",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"OBS_VALUE": -46.654223697016995,
"COUNT_AREA": "W0",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "2",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2023",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "TOTL1",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
"TRANSFORMATION": "G1"
}Record 4FREQ: A · FRD_TYP: _Z
{
"FREQ": "A",
"FRD_TYP": "_Z",
"REF_AREA": "B0",
"OBS_VALUE": 1746.9067819462532,
"COUNT_AREA": "W0",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2021",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "TOTL",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR_R_PNT",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 5FREQ: A · FRD_TYP: _Z
{
"FREQ": "A",
"FRD_TYP": "_Z",
"REF_AREA": "BE",
"OBS_VALUE": 0,
"COUNT_AREA": "DK",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "SER",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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