European Central Bank — PTT dataflow
Official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the PTT 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 (29 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, Belgium, Bulgaria) |
| COUNT_AREACounterpart area | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Rest of the World, Domestic (home or reference area), Not applicable) |
| TRMNL_LCTNPOS location | dimension | 35 codes (e.g. Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Greece) |
| TYP_TRNSCTNPayment transaction type | dimension | 10 codes (e.g. Cash withdrawals using cards, Cash deposits using cards, All) |
| 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. Automatic teller machine (ATM) terminal, Terminal, Point of sale (POS) terminal) |
| TRANSFORMATION | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. Non transformed data, Growth rate %, period on period) |
| 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": 9.567486299999999,
"COUNT_AREA": "W1",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
"TRMNL_LCTN": "LI",
"INTTN_CHNNL": "2221",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "CW1",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 2FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"OBS_VALUE": 0,
"COUNT_AREA": "W2",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "2",
"TRMNL_LCTN": "NL",
"INTTN_CHNNL": "2221",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "CD1",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 3FREQ: A · REF_AREA: BE
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "BE",
"OBS_VALUE": 449.86332466,
"COUNT_AREA": "W1",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
"TRMNL_LCTN": "GR",
"INTTN_CHNNL": "2220",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "_T",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 4FREQ: A · REF_AREA: BE
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "BE",
"OBS_VALUE": 0,
"COUNT_AREA": "W1",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "1",
"TRMNL_LCTN": "LT",
"INTTN_CHNNL": "2221",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "TRSC",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "PN",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Record 5FREQ: A · REF_AREA: BE
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "BE",
"OBS_VALUE": null,
"COUNT_AREA": "W1",
"RL_TRNSCTN": "2",
"TRMNL_LCTN": "LU",
"INTTN_CHNNL": "2222",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"TYP_TRNSCTN": "TRSO",
"UNIT_MEASURE": "EUR",
"TRANSFORMATION": "N"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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