European Central Bank — Other Financial Intermediaries (OFI)
Other Financial Intermediaries (OFI) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the OFI 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 (33 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. Annual, Quarterly) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | 28 codes (e.g. Euro area (changing composition), Austria, Belgium) |
| ADJUSTMENTAdjustment indicator | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Neither seasonally nor working day adjusted) |
| OFI_REP_SECTOROFI reporting sector | dimension | 9 codes (e.g. Financial corporations engaged in lending to households and non-financial corporations, Investment funds, Investment funds o/w Equity funds) |
| OFI_ITEMOFI balance sheet item | dimension | 15 codes (e.g. Loans, Debt securities held, Equity) |
| MATURITY_ORIGOriginal maturity | dimension | 4 codes (e.g. Total, Not applicable, Up to 1 year) |
| DATA_TYPE | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Outstanding amounts at the end of the period (stocks), Reclassification adjustments, Financial transactions (flows)) |
| COUNT_AREACounterpart area | dimension | 10 codes (e.g. World (all entities), Extra-Euro area 13 (fixed composition) as of 1 January 2007, Other Euro area 13 member states (fixed composition - all countries except the reference area) as of 1 January 2007) |
| BS_COUNT_SECTORBS counterpart sector | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Unspecified counterpart sector, Monetary financial institutions (MFIs), Non-MFIs) |
| CURRENCY_TRANSCurrency of transaction | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. All currencies combined) |
| SERIES_DENOMSeries denominat/spec calcul | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. 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 | — |
| BREAKS | attribute | — |
| COLLECTIONCollection indicator | attribute | — |
| COMPILING_ORGCompiling organisation | attribute | — |
| DISS_ORGData dissemination organisation | attribute | — |
| DOM_SER_IDSDomestic series ids | attribute | — |
| PUBL_ECBSource publication (ECB only) | attribute | — |
| PUBL_MUSource publication (Euro area only) | attribute | — |
| PUBL_PUBLICSource publication (public) | attribute | — |
| COMPILATION | attribute | — |
| COVERAGE | attribute | — |
| DECIMALS | attribute | — |
| NAT_TITLENational language title | attribute | — |
| SOURCE_AGENCY | attribute | — |
| TITLE | attribute | — |
| TITLE_COMPLTitle complement | attribute | — |
| UNIT | attribute | — |
| UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier | attribute | — |
| OBS_STATUSObservation status | attribute | — |
| OBS_CONFObservation confidentiality | attribute | — |
Schema captured from sdmx 1 month ago.
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Sample data (5 records)
Record 1FREQ: A · OFI_ITEM: A20
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OFI_ITEM": "A20",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"OBS_VALUE": 370384.80145504,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"COUNT_AREA": "A1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2022",
"SERIES_DENOM": "E",
"MATURITY_ORIG": "A",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"OFI_REP_SECTOR": "30",
"BS_COUNT_SECTOR": "0000"
}Record 2FREQ: A · OFI_ITEM: A20
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OFI_ITEM": "A20",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"OBS_VALUE": 6365.577538012116,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"COUNT_AREA": "A1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2022",
"SERIES_DENOM": "E",
"MATURITY_ORIG": "A",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"OFI_REP_SECTOR": "30",
"BS_COUNT_SECTOR": "1000"
}Record 3FREQ: A · OFI_ITEM: A20
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OFI_ITEM": "A20",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"OBS_VALUE": 364018.22498505656,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"COUNT_AREA": "A1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2022",
"SERIES_DENOM": "E",
"MATURITY_ORIG": "A",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"OFI_REP_SECTOR": "30",
"BS_COUNT_SECTOR": "2000"
}Record 4FREQ: A · OFI_ITEM: A20
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OFI_ITEM": "A20",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"DATA_TYPE": "5",
"OBS_VALUE": -37601.87225806,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"COUNT_AREA": "A1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2022",
"SERIES_DENOM": "E",
"MATURITY_ORIG": "A",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"OFI_REP_SECTOR": "30",
"BS_COUNT_SECTOR": "0000"
}Record 5FREQ: A · OFI_ITEM: A20
{
"FREQ": "A",
"OFI_ITEM": "A20",
"REF_AREA": "U2",
"DATA_TYPE": "5",
"OBS_VALUE": -2457.21990743,
"ADJUSTMENT": "N",
"COUNT_AREA": "A1",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2022",
"SERIES_DENOM": "E",
"MATURITY_ORIG": "A",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z01",
"OFI_REP_SECTOR": "30",
"BS_COUNT_SECTOR": "1000"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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