European Central Bank — Securities (SEC)
Securities (SEC) is a dataset published by the European Central Bank as part of its Data Portal, providing official time series statistics on securities issuance and holdings across the euro area. Data are distributed as the SEC dataflow via the SDMX 2.1 REST API, with a single endpoint serving XML (SDMX-ML), CSV, and JSON formats. Users can extract specific series using a key path together with startPeriod, endPeriod, or lastNObservations filters. The same series can also be browsed and charted interactively through the ECB Data Portal website.Securities (SEC) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the SEC 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 (10 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | Time frequency of the observation, such as monthly or annual.2 codes (e.g. Monthly, Annual) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | Country or reference area covered by the data.33 codes (e.g. Lithuania, Italy, Luxembourg) |
| SEC_ISSUING_SECTORSecurities issuing sector | dimension | Institutional sector issuing the securities, per ESA 2010 classification.22 codes (e.g. Non-financial corporations (ESA 2010 classification), Other financial intermediaries (ESA 2010 classification), Central government (ESA 2010 classification)) |
| SEC_ITEMSecurities item | dimension | Type of security item, such as long-term fixed-rate issues or listed shares.6 codes (e.g. Long-term / Fixed rate issues, Long-term / Floating rate issues, Securities other than shares, excluding financial derivatives) |
| SEC_VALUATIONSecurities valuation | dimension | Valuation method used for the securities, e.g. nominal or ESA95 value.2 codes (e.g. Nominal value, ESA95 valuation) |
| DATA_TYPE_SECSecurities data type | dimension | Type of securities data, such as net issues or outstanding stocks.7 codes (e.g. Outstanding amounts at the end of the period (stocks), Redemptions (flows), (Gross) issues against cash (flows)) |
| CURRENCY_TRANSCurrency of transaction | dimension | Currency in which the underlying transaction is denominated.13 codes (e.g. All currencies except EUR, All currencies combined, Euro) |
| SERIES_DENOMSeries denominat/spec calcul | dimension | Denomination or calculation basis of the series, e.g. euro or growth rate.5 codes (e.g. Euro, Annual growth rate, National currency) |
| SEC_SUFFIXSeries suffix - SEC context | dimension | Additional series qualifier, such as seasonal adjustment status.3 codes (e.g. Unspecified, Seasonally adjusted, Percentage of total currencies) |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | Numeric value of the observation for this series and period.The observed numeric value for each cell. |
Schema captured from sdmx 1 day 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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