ALFRED: Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data, Economic Data Time Travel from the St. Louis Fed

Economic Research from the
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data

Economic Data Time Travel from the St. Louis Fed's Economic Research Division.

ALFRED® allows you to retrieve vintage versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history. In general, economic data for past observation periods are revised as more accurate estimates become available. As a result, previous vintages of data can be superseded and may no longer be available from various data sources. Vintage or real time economic data allows academics to reproduce others' research, build more accurate forecasting models, and analyze economic policy decisions using the data available at the time.

Update: 2003 vintages have been added for 12 Greenbook series. More ... (2009-07-27)

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Currently, vintage data are available for 20,054 series in 14 categories:

Banking
Business/Fiscal
Consumer Price Indexes (CPI)
Employment & Population
Exchange Rates

Greenbook Projections
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Components
Interest Rates
Monetary Aggregates
Producer Price Indexes (PPI)

Reserves and Monetary Base
U.S. Trade & International Transactions
U.S. Financial Data
Regional Data

The earliest vintage available is 1927-01-26 for series Industrial Production Index.

Release Calendar

Release Date	Release
2010-02-08	Weekly Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities
2010-02-05	G.19 Consumer Credit
	H.4.1 Factors Affecting Reserve Balances (data not included in press release)
	H.8 Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the United States
	M2 Related Series
	Money Zero Maturity (MZM)
	St. Louis Monthly Reserves and Monetary Base
	St. Louis Weekly Reserves and Monetary Base
	The Employment Situation
2010-02-04	H.3 Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institutions and the Monetary Base
	H.4.1 Factors Affecting Reserve Balances
	H.6 Money Stock Measures
	Manufacturer's Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey
	Monthly National Population Estimates
	Productivity and Costs
	St. Louis Bi-Weekly Reserves and Monetary Base
	Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report
2010-02-03	Non-Manufacturing ISM Report on Business
	Supplemental Estimates, Motor Vehicles
2010-02-02	Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment
	Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas)
2010-02-01	Fiscal Year Budget Data
	G.5 Foreign Exchange Rates
	H.15 Selected Interest Rates
	Manufacturing ISM Report on Business

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