European Central Bank — Structural Financial Indicators for Payments (SSP)
Structural Financial Indicators for Payments (SSP) — official time series from the European Central Bank Data Portal, published as the SSP 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 (30 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREQFrequency | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. Annual, Half-yearly) |
| REF_AREAReference area | dimension | 30 codes (e.g. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria) |
| REF_SECTORReference sector | dimension | 14 codes (e.g. Other payment service providers and e-money issuers incl. Central banks, Other payment service providers and e-money issuers, Other payment service providers) |
| SSI_INDICATORStructural statist indicator | dimension | 10 codes (e.g. Number of institutions, Number of overnight deposit accounts held by non-MFIs, Number of e-money accounts) |
| DATA_TYPE | dimension | 2 codes (e.g. Outstanding amounts at the end of the period (stocks), Stock as percentage per million inhabitants) |
| COUNT_AREACounterpart area | dimension | 38 codes (e.g. Domestic (home or reference area), World not allocated (geographically), Extra EEA) |
| CURRENCY_TRANSCurrency of transaction | dimension | 1 codes (e.g. Not applicable) |
| SERIES_DENOMSeries denominat/spec calcul | dimension | 3 codes (e.g. Growth rate to previous period, Pure number per million inhabitants, Not applicable) |
| 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.
Query the data
Pick columns and a sort, then fetch a live preview straight from the source. Choose an API-filterable column (marked ▾) under “Where” to pick from its list of values.
Sample data (5 records)
Record 1FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"OBS_VALUE": null,
"COUNT_AREA": "U6",
"REF_SECTOR": "0PCB",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2022",
"SERIES_DENOM": "P",
"SSI_INDICATOR": "N50",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z0Z"
}Record 2FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"OBS_VALUE": 1.0849067555190834e-7,
"COUNT_AREA": "U6",
"REF_SECTOR": "0PCB",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"SERIES_DENOM": "R_P6",
"SSI_INDICATOR": "N50",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z0Z"
}Record 3FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"OBS_VALUE": 1,
"COUNT_AREA": "U6",
"REF_SECTOR": "0PCB",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"SERIES_DENOM": "Z",
"SSI_INDICATOR": "N50",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z0Z"
}Record 4FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"OBS_VALUE": null,
"COUNT_AREA": "Z5",
"REF_SECTOR": "0PEI",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"SERIES_DENOM": "Z",
"SSI_INDICATOR": "L21",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z0Z"
}Record 5FREQ: A · REF_AREA: AT
{
"FREQ": "A",
"REF_AREA": "AT",
"DATA_TYPE": "1",
"OBS_VALUE": 0,
"COUNT_AREA": "Z5",
"REF_SECTOR": "0PEI",
"TIME_PERIOD": "2025",
"SERIES_DENOM": "Z",
"SSI_INDICATOR": "L25",
"CURRENCY_TRANS": "Z0Z"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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