European Central Bank — PMC dataflow

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Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PMC 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_AREATRMNL_LCTNRMT_INTTNMRCHNT_CTGRY_CDTRANSFORMATIONUNIT_MEASURETIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	1 codes (e.g. Quarterly)
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	1 codes (e.g. Not applicable)
TRMNL_LCTNPOS location	dimension	5 codes (e.g. Extra European Economic Area (EEA), Other European Economic Area (EEA) countries (all EEA countries excluding the reference area), World (all entities, including reference area, including IO))
RMT_INTTNRemote or non-remote initiation	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Initiated via non-remote channel, Intiated via remote channel)
MRCHNT_CTGRY_CDMerchant category	dimension	60 codes (e.g. Local and suburban commuter passenger transportation, including ferries, Passenger railways, Taxi-cabs and limousines)
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 1FREQ: Q · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 1.6142334299999994,
  "RMT_INTTN": "NR",
  "COUNT_AREA": "_Z",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "G1",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N",
  "MRCHNT_CTGRY_CD": "4111"
}

Record 2FREQ: Q · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0.20786100000000002,
  "RMT_INTTN": "NR",
  "COUNT_AREA": "_Z",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "G1",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N",
  "MRCHNT_CTGRY_CD": "4111"
}

Record 3FREQ: Q · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 1.2504469800000004,
  "RMT_INTTN": "NR",
  "COUNT_AREA": "_Z",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "G1",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N",
  "MRCHNT_CTGRY_CD": "4112"
}

Record 4FREQ: Q · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0.035891,
  "RMT_INTTN": "NR",
  "COUNT_AREA": "_Z",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "G1",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N",
  "MRCHNT_CTGRY_CD": "4112"
}

Record 5FREQ: Q · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 1.8140840200000004,
  "RMT_INTTN": "NR",
  "COUNT_AREA": "_Z",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "G1",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2026-Q1",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N",
  "MRCHNT_CTGRY_CD": "4121"
}

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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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