European Central Bank — PPC dataflow

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Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PPC 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_AREATRMNL_LCTNTYP_TRNSCTNRL_TRNSCTNINTTN_CHNNLPSP_CTGRYTRANSFORMATIONUNIT_MEASURETIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Annual, Half-yearly)
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	35 codes (e.g. Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus)
TRMNL_LCTNPOS location	dimension	6 codes (e.g. Not applicable, World (all entities, including reference area, including IO), Extra European Economic Area (EEA))
TYP_TRNSCTNPayment transaction type	dimension	8 codes (e.g. Credit transfers, Direct debits, Money remittances)
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	4 codes (e.g. All, Over-the-counter (OTC), E-money card)
PSP_CTGRYPayment service provider category	dimension	5 codes (e.g. Post office giro, Credit institutions, Payment institutions)
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: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "PSP_CTGRY": "S11A",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "_Z",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CT0",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 2FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0,
  "PSP_CTGRY": "S11A",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "_Z",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CT0",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 3FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 24190.73308176,
  "PSP_CTGRY": "S122C",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "_Z",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CT0",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 4FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 1.607139,
  "PSP_CTGRY": "S122C",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "_Z",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CT0",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 5FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": null,
  "PSP_CTGRY": "S126C",
  "COUNT_AREA": "BE",
  "RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
  "TRMNL_LCTN": "_Z",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CT0",
  "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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