European Central Bank — PTN dataflow
Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PTN 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 (26 fields)
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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) |
| TRMNL_LCTNPOS location | dimension | 35 codes (e.g. Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus) |
| INTTN_CHNNLInitiation channel | dimension | 4 codes (e.g. Automatic teller machine (ATM) terminal, Point of sale (POS) terminal, Electronic funds transfer at point of sale (EFTPOS) terminal) |
| TRMNL_FNCTNTerminal function | dimension | 6 codes (e.g. Cash withdrawal function, Credit transfer function, Accepting contactless transactions) |
| UNIT_MEASUREUnit of measure | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Pure number, Percentage change, Pure number per million inhabitants) |
| 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)
| FREQ | REF_AREA | TRMNL_LCTN | INTTN_CHNNL | TRMNL_FNCTN | UNIT_MEASURE | TIME_PERIOD | OBS_VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | AT | BE | 2221 | 1 | PN | 2025 | 0 |
| A | AT | BE | 2221 | 2 | PN | 2025 | 0 |
| A | AT | BE | 2221 | 3 | PN | 2025 | 0 |
| A | AT | BE | 2221 | _T | PN | 2025 | 0 |
| A | AT | BE | 2222 | _T | PN | 2025 | 0 |
Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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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'All dataflows (datasets) published by this agency, as SDMX-ML.
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