European Central Bank — Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP)
Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP) time series published by the European Central Bank through its Data Portal, distributed as the HICP dataflow over the SDMX 2.1 REST API. A single endpoint provides data in XML (SDMX-ML), CSV, and JSON formats, allowing users to extract specific series using key paths and filters such as startPeriod, endPeriod, and lastNObservations. The same series can also be browsed and charted interactively on the ECB Data Portal, making the dataset useful for inflation monitoring and economic analysis across the euro area and EU member states.Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the HICP 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 (7 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | Frequency of the observation, e.g. monthly or annual.2 codes (e.g. Monthly, Annual) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | Geographic reference area or country covered by the series.32 codes (e.g. Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania) |
| ADJUSTMENTAdjustment indicator | dimension | Indicates whether values are seasonally and/or working-day adjusted.2 codes (e.g. Neither seasonally nor working day adjusted, Working day and seasonally adjusted) |
| ICP_ITEMClassification - ICP context | dimension | HICP classification item or category being measured.490 codes (e.g. HICP - Total excluding energy and unprocessed food, HICP - Total excluding energy and seasonal food, HICP - Total excluding frequent out-of-pocket purchases) |
| DATA_PROVIDER | dimension | Organisation that supplied the data, e.g. Eurostat or ECB.2 codes (e.g. Statistical Office of the European Commission (Eurostat), European Central Bank (ECB)) |
| ICP_SUFFIXSeries variation - ICP context | dimension | Type of series variation, e.g. index level or annual rate of change.17 codes (e.g. Annual rate of change, Annual rate of change at constant tax rates (HICP-CT), Monthly index at constant tax rates (HICP-CT)) |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | Numeric value of the observation for this series.The observed numeric value for each cell. |
Schema captured from sdmx 2 days ago.
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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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