European Central Bank — PST dataflow

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Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PST 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_INFOTYP_TRNSCTNINTTN_CHNNLPYMNT_SYSTMTRANSFORMATIONUNIT_MEASURECURRENCY_TRANSTIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Annual, Half-yearly)
REF_AREAReference area	dimension	32 codes (e.g. ECB (European Central Bank), Austria, EU (Member States and Institutions of the European Union) changing composition)
COUNT_AREACounterpart area	dimension	9 codes (e.g. EU (Member States and Institutions of the European Union) changing composition, Domestic (home or reference area), Other EU member states (all countries except the reference area))
TYP_INFOPayment Information type	dimension	3 codes (e.g. Payment transactions processed by payment systems, Concentration ratio by value, Concentration ratio by volume)
TYP_TRNSCTNPayment transaction type	dimension	11 codes (e.g. Credit transfers, Credit transfers and direct debits, All)
INTTN_CHNNLInitiation channel	dimension	4 codes (e.g. All, Automatic teller machine (ATM) terminal, Paper-based form)
PYMNT_SYSTMPayment system	dimension	308 codes (e.g. TIPS, T2 component system, CS (closed June 2023))
TRANSFORMATION	dimension	2 codes (e.g. Non transformed data, Growth rate %, period on period)
UNIT_MEASUREUnit of measure	dimension	4 codes (e.g. Euro, Pure number, Ratio)
CURRENCY_TRANSCurrency of transaction	dimension	6 codes (e.g. All currencies combined, Euro, Danish krone)
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: 4F

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "4F",
  "TYP_INFO": "1",
  "OBS_VALUE": 57969.39245628007,
  "COUNT_AREA": "B0",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "PYMNT_SYSTM": "TIPS",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2024",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CT0",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 2FREQ: A · REF_AREA: 4F

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "4F",
  "TYP_INFO": "1",
  "OBS_VALUE": 121.775961,
  "COUNT_AREA": "B0",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "PYMNT_SYSTM": "TIPS",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2024",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CT0",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 3FREQ: A · REF_AREA: 4F

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "4F",
  "TYP_INFO": "1",
  "OBS_VALUE": 28345836.4710831,
  "COUNT_AREA": "B0",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "PYMNT_SYSTM": "TRGT2",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2024",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CTDD",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
  "CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 4FREQ: A · REF_AREA: 4F

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "4F",
  "TYP_INFO": "1",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0.163631,
  "COUNT_AREA": "B0",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "PYMNT_SYSTM": "TRGT2",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2024",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "CTDD",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
  "CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
  "TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}

Record 5FREQ: A · REF_AREA: 4F

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "4F",
  "TYP_INFO": "2",
  "OBS_VALUE": 0.9951452145836195,
  "COUNT_AREA": "B0",
  "INTTN_CHNNL": "_T",
  "PYMNT_SYSTM": "TRGT2",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
  "TYP_TRNSCTN": "_T",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "RO",
  "CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
  "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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