Federal Reserve Board (H.15 etc.)

Coverage

Licensing & provenance

License

U.S. Government Work (public domain)

License URL

https://www.usa.gov/government-works

Required attribution

Source: Federal Reserve Board (public domain)

Redistribution

Permitted (served here)

Commercial use

Yes

Modification

Permitted

How to cite

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, statistical releases (Data Download Program). Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the Federal Reserve Board's Data Download Program, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema and stored as zstd Parquet, one file per statistical release.

Access & mirrors

Download

Select & download fed_board series as CSV →

API

Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv

Canonical landing

https://econdatalibrary.com/fed_board

Update cadence

daily

Automated refresh

live — this database is on the daily update run

Update strategy

bulk snapshot if changed

Storage layout

Per-release grouped parquet: data/clean_full/fed_board/<REL>.parquet (obs: dataset, series_key, obs_date(date32), value(float64), obs_status) + <REL>__series.parquet (one row per series metadata) + <REL>.meta.json (resume/verify sidecar) + _summary.json. 18 releases. zstd, 1M-row flush via lxml.iterparse with el.clear(). Raw zips cached at data/raw/fed_board/<REL>.zip.

Full description

FULL-COVERAGE ingest of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board Data Download Program (DDP). Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/ -- the Fed's bulk-download facility. For EVERY statistical release the DDP publishes a single ZIP package containing the entire release as one SDMX-compact XML file: https://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Output.aspx?rel=<REL>&filetype=zip The 18 releases that exist (enumerated from the DDP home page's Choose.aspx?rel= links on 2026-06-03): CHGDEL CP DSR E2 FOR G17 G19 G20 H10 H15 H3 H41 H6 H8 PRATES SCOOS SLOOS Z1 SDMX layout (compact schema): <frb:DataSet id="..."> <kf:Series SERIES_NAME="..." FREQ="9" UNIT="..." ...dimension attrs...> <frb:Annotations>... Short/Long Description ...</frb:Annotations> <frb:Obs OBS_STATUS="A" OBS_VALUE="1.13" TIME_PERIOD="1954-07-01"/> ... </kf:Series> </frb:DataSet> A release may contain several DataSets (e.g. CP -> RATES/VOL/OUTST...; G17 -> 14 IP_* cubes). SERIES_NAME is unique within a DataSet but can repeat ACROSS DataSets in the same release, so the unique series key is (dataset, series_name). OBS_STATUS="ND" with OBS_VALUE="-9999" means "no data published" -> skipped. GROUPED storage (mirrors jobs/ingest_eurostat.py / ingest_bls.py): ONE Parquet per RELEASE -> data/clean_full/fed_board/<REL>.parquet with a `dataset` + `series_key` column inside (NOT one file per series). A sidecar <REL>__series.parquet holds one metadata row per series (freq, unit, descriptions, full dimension dict as JSON). Memory is bounded via lxml.iterparse with el.clear() and row-group batch flushing -- essential for Z.1 (590 MB XML, ~40k series). License: us-public-domain (configs/sources.yaml -> fed_board). Usage: python jobs/ingest_fed_board.py --probe # parse 3 small releases, no big ones python jobs/ingest_fed_board.py --only H15,Z1 # one/few releases python jobs/ingest_fed_board.py # full run (all 18 releases) python jobs/ingest_fed_board.py --skip-download # reuse already-downloaded ZIPs python jobs/ingest_fed_board.py --force # ignore resume sidecars, redo

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