European Central Bank — PCT dataflow

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Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PCT 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 (31 fields)

Filterable via the API (12)

FREQREF_AREACOUNT_AREARL_TRNSCTNINTTN_CHNNLRMT_INTTNPYMNT_SCHMSCAFRD_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. Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus)
RL_TRNSCTNRole in transaction	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Payer's payment service provider (PSP), Payee's payment service provider (PSP))
INTTN_CHNNLInitiation channel	dimension	13 codes (e.g. Paper-based form, Electronic, File/batch)
RMT_INTTNRemote or non-remote initiation	dimension	3 codes (e.g. Initiated either via remote or non-remote channel, Initiated via non-remote channel, Intiated via remote channel)
PYMNT_SCHMPayment scheme	dimension	17 codes (e.g. All credit transfer schemes combined, SEPA Credit Transfer scheme (SCT), SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme (SCT Inst))
SCAStrong Customer Authentication	dimension	11 codes (e.g. Either strong customer authentication (SCA) or non-SCA used, Strong customer authentication (SCA) used, Non-strong customer authentication (non-SCA) used)
FRD_TYPFraud type	dimension	3 codes (e.g. Not applicable (total transactions including both non-fraud and fraud), Fraud, Modification of a payment order by the fraudster)
TRANSFORMATION	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Non transformed data, Growth rate %, period on period)
UNIT_MEASUREUnit of measure	dimension	16 codes (e.g. Euro, Pure number, Euro; ratio to GDP)
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 1SCA: _X · FREQ: A

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "A",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 667.96861922,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "PYMNT_SCHM": "CTS_ALL",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "1200",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 2SCA: _X · FREQ: A

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "A",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0.030092,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "PYMNT_SCHM": "CTS_ALL",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "1200",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 3SCA: _X · FREQ: A

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "A",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 27877.67106346,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "PYMNT_SCHM": "CTS_ALL",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "2000",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 4SCA: _X · FREQ: A

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "A",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 1.5771319999999998,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "PYMNT_SCHM": "CTS_ALL",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "2000",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 5SCA: _X · FREQ: A

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "A",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 7210.83214959,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "PYMNT_SCHM": "CTS_ALL",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "2100",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

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curl -s 'https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/dataflow/ECB' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.sdmx.structure+xml;version=2.1'

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