IMF Primary Commodity Prices (PCPS). Source: IMF PCPS (Primary Commodity Price System) https://www.imf.org/en/Research/commodity-prices License: IMF data Terms of Use (free for research) Coverage: 1,236 series; energy, metals, food, beverages, agricultural raw materials; monthly/quarterly/annual,…
International Monetary Fund — Primary Commodity Price System (PCPS). Retrieved directly from the IMF SDMX API (api.imf.org). Observations first ingested before July 2026 were originally obtained via the DBnomics aggregation of the same IMF dataset; the series were since re-pointed to the IMF's own API with identical ids and values (value-agreement proven per indicator). Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.
Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.
IMF Primary Commodity Prices (PCPS). Source: IMF PCPS (Primary Commodity Price System) https://www.imf.org/en/Research/commodity-prices License: IMF data Terms of Use (free for research) Coverage: 1,236 series; energy, metals, food, beverages, agricultural raw materials; monthly/quarterly/annual, 1980-present (~70 commodities) series_key: IMF_COMMODITY:{series_code} e.g. IMF_COMMODITY:M.W00.POILBRE.USD (monthly, Brent crude oil, USD) Output: data/clean_full/imf_commodity/imf_commodity.parquet Run: python jobs/ingest_imf_commodity.py
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