European Central Bank — PIS dataflow

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Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PIS 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 (11)

FREQREF_AREACOUNT_AREATYP_TRNSCTNRL_TRNSCTNRMT_INTTNSCAFRD_TYPTRANSFORMATIONUNIT_MEASURETIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Half-yearly)
REF_AREAReference area	dimension	27 codes (e.g. Austria, EU (Member States and Institutions of the European Union) changing composition, Belgium)
COUNT_AREACounterpart area	dimension	35 codes (e.g. Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus)
TYP_TRNSCTNPayment transaction type	dimension	3 codes (e.g. All, Credit transfers, Other than credit transfers initiated by payment initiation service provider (PISP))
RL_TRNSCTNRole in transaction	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Payment initiation service provider (PISP))
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)
SCAStrong Customer Authentication	dimension	3 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	2 codes (e.g. Not applicable (total transactions including both non-fraud and fraud), Fraud)
TRANSFORMATION	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Non transformed data)
UNIT_MEASUREUnit of measure	dimension	3 codes (e.g. Euro, Pure number, Domestic currency (incl. conversion to current currency made using a fixed parity or market exchange rate))
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: H

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "H",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "3",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-S2",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "_T",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 2SCA: _X · FREQ: H

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "H",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "3",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-S2",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "_T",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 3SCA: _X · FREQ: H

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "H",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BG",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "3",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-S2",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "_T",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 4SCA: _X · FREQ: H

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "H",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BG",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "3",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-S2",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "_T",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 5SCA: _X · FREQ: H

{
  "SCA": "_X",
  "FREQ": "H",
  "FRD_TYP": "_Z",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "RMT_INTTN": "_T",
  "COUNT_AREA": "CY",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "3",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025-S2",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "_T",
  "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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