fred

Fred

Name: Fred
Creator: Fred

Metadata onlyLicense under review

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Coverage

Measured observations

48,048,976

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download fred series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/fred.html
Update cadence: weekly
Update strategy: extend by date
Storage layout: Single grouped parquet: data/clean_full/fred/fred.parquet, columns series_key (FRED id), obs_date(date32), value(float64), zstd. Built by loading the entire existing file into Python lists, extending with new series, and rewriting the whole file once. No raw dir, no sidecar (the _fred_log.txt / _manifest.json / release_*.parquet alongside it are from other scripts).

Full description

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) — St. Louis Fed, keyless CSV download. License: FRED Terms of Use — free for research/educational use Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ No API key required for individual series CSV downloads. Strategy: * Download each series via https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id={series_id} * Curated list of ~800 series covering US macro, rates, labor, banking, international Run: python jobs/ingest_fred.py python jobs/ingest_fred.py --only GDP,CPIAUCSL

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets