European Central Bank — Indicators of Financial Integration (IFI)
Indicators of Financial Integration (IFI) is an official time series dataset published by the European Central Bank via its Data Portal, distributed as the IFI dataflow over the SDMX 2.1 REST API. A single endpoint serves data in XML (SDMX-ML), CSV, and JSON formats, allowing users to extract specific series using a key path together with startPeriod, endPeriod, or lastNObservations filters. The same series can also be browsed and charted interactively on the ECB Data Portal. The dataset covers indicators tracking financial integration across the euro area and European Union, relevant for economic and financial market analysis.Indicators of Financial Integration (IFI) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the IFI dataflow over SDMX 2.1 REST. One endpoint serves XML (SDMX-ML), CSV (?format=csvdata) and JSON (?format=jsondata); extract exactly the series you need with a key path and startPeriod / endPeriod / lastNObservations filters. Browse and chart the same series on the ECB Data Portal.
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Data schema (28 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | 4 codes (e.g. Annual, Daily, Monthly) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | 12 codes (e.g. Euro area (changing composition), Austria, Germany) |
| INSTRUMENT_FMFinancial market instrument | dimension | 5 codes (e.g. Equity, Corporate bond, Government bond) |
| DATA_TYPE_IFIData type - IFI context | dimension | 9 codes (e.g. Spillover intensity, Proportion of explained variance, Estimated coefficient) |
| IN_OUT_DATA_IFIIFI input-output data | dimension | 24 codes (e.g. European shock, US shock, Country effect) |
| MATURITY_CATMaturity category | dimension | 10 codes (e.g. Not applicable, 10 years, 2 years) |
| COUNT_AREACounterpart area | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. World not allocated (geographically), EU member states not belonging to the Euro area, Other Euro area member states (all countries except the reference area)) |
| CURRENCY_TRANSCurrency of transaction | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. All currencies combined, Euro) |
| 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 | — |
| COLLECTIONCollection indicator | attribute | — |
| COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation | attribute | — |
| DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation | attribute | — |
| BREAKS | attribute | — |
| COMPILATION | attribute | — |
| COVERAGE | attribute | — |
| DECIMALS | attribute | — |
| DOM_SER_IDSDomestic series ids | attribute | — |
| SOURCE_AGENCY | attribute | — |
| TITLE | attribute | — |
| TITLE_COMPLTitle complement | attribute | — |
| UNIT | attribute | — |
| UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier | attribute | — |
| OBS_STATUSObservation status | attribute | — |
| OBS_CONFObservation confidentiality | attribute | — |
| OBS_PRE_BREAKPre-break observation value | attribute | — |
| OBS_COMObservation comment | attribute | — |
Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.
Query the data
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Sample data (5 records)
Record 1FREQ: A · REF_AREA: U2
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 0.838839883,
"COUNT_AREA": "Z5",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2007",
"MATURITY_CAT": "ZZ",
"DATA_TYPE_IFI": "1S",
"INSTRUMENT_FM": "EQ",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"IN_OUT_DATA_IFI": "S010"
}Record 2FREQ: A · REF_AREA: U2
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 0.358133327,
"COUNT_AREA": "Z5",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2007",
"MATURITY_CAT": "ZZ",
"DATA_TYPE_IFI": "1S",
"INSTRUMENT_FM": "EQ",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"IN_OUT_DATA_IFI": "S020"
}Record 3FREQ: A · REF_AREA: U2
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 0.382052406,
"COUNT_AREA": "Z5",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2007",
"MATURITY_CAT": "ZZ",
"DATA_TYPE_IFI": "4R",
"INSTRUMENT_FM": "EQ",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"IN_OUT_DATA_IFI": "S010"
}Record 4FREQ: A · REF_AREA: U2
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"OBS_VALUE": 0.164841564,
"COUNT_AREA": "Z5",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2007",
"MATURITY_CAT": "ZZ",
"DATA_TYPE_IFI": "4R",
"INSTRUMENT_FM": "EQ",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"IN_OUT_DATA_IFI": "S020"
}Record 5FREQ: D · REF_AREA: AT
{
"FREQ": "D",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"OBS_VALUE": 5.6225,
"COUNT_AREA": "Z5",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2007-12-14",
"MATURITY_CAT": "ZZ",
"DATA_TYPE_IFI": "1E",
"INSTRUMENT_FM": "BC",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "EUR",
"IN_OUT_DATA_IFI": "M040"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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