European Central Bank — Short-Term Statistics (STS)

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Short-Term Statistics (STS) is an official dataset published by the European Central Bank through the ECB Data Portal, covering the euro area and EU member states. Distributed as the STS dataflow over the SDMX 2.1 REST API, it provides economic time series such as prices and short-term economic indicators. A single endpoint serves 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 directly on the ECB Data Portal website.Short-Term Statistics (STS) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the STS 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 (29 fields)

Filterable via the API (8)

FREQREF_AREAADJUSTMENTSTS_CONCEPTSTS_CLASSSTS_INSTITUTIONSTS_SUFFIXTIME_PERIOD

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Field	Type	Description
FREQFrequency	dimension	3 codes (e.g. Annual, Monthly, Quarterly)
REF_AREAReference area	dimension	36 codes (e.g. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria)
ADJUSTMENTAdjustment indicator	dimension	4 codes (e.g. Working day adjusted, not seasonally adjusted, Working day and seasonally adjusted, Neither seasonally nor working day adjusted)
STS_CONCEPTConcept - STS context	dimension	33 codes (e.g. Car registration, Indicator of negotiated wage rates, Building Permits / dwellings)
STS_CLASSClassification - STS context	dimension	278 codes (e.g. New commercial vehicles, New heavy commercial vehicles, New light commercial vehicles)
STS_INSTITUTIONInstitution originating the data flow	dimension	3 codes (e.g. European Central Bank, Other (see attributes for more information), Eurostat)
STS_SUFFIXSeries variation - STS context	dimension	4 codes (e.g. Absolute value, Annual rate of change, unspecified)
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	—
UNIT_INDEX_BASE	attribute	—
COMPILATION	attribute	—
COVERAGE	attribute	—
DECIMALS	attribute	—
NAT_TITLENational language title	attribute	—
SOURCE_AGENCY	attribute	—
SOURCE_PUBPublication source	attribute	—
TITLE	attribute	—
TITLE_COMPLTitle complement	attribute	—
UNIT	attribute	—
UNIT_MULTUnit multiplier	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": 66212,
  "STS_CLASS": "CV0000",
  "ADJUSTMENT": "W",
  "STS_SUFFIX": "ABS",
  "STS_CONCEPT": "CREG",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2021",
  "STS_INSTITUTION": "3"
}

Record 2FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 7547,
  "STS_CLASS": "CVH000",
  "ADJUSTMENT": "W",
  "STS_SUFFIX": "ABS",
  "STS_CONCEPT": "CREG",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2021",
  "STS_INSTITUTION": "3"
}

Record 3FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 58665,
  "STS_CLASS": "CVL000",
  "ADJUSTMENT": "W",
  "STS_SUFFIX": "ABS",
  "STS_CONCEPT": "CREG",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2021",
  "STS_INSTITUTION": "3"
}

Record 4FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 238748,
  "STS_CLASS": "PC0000",
  "ADJUSTMENT": "W",
  "STS_SUFFIX": "ABS",
  "STS_CONCEPT": "CREG",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2021",
  "STS_INSTITUTION": "3"
}

Record 5FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT

{
  "FREQ": "A",
  "REF_AREA": "AT",
  "OBS_VALUE": 65695,
  "STS_CLASS": "CV0000",
  "ADJUSTMENT": "Y",
  "STS_SUFFIX": "ABS",
  "STS_CONCEPT": "CREG",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2021",
  "STS_INSTITUTION": "3"
}

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