International Monetary Fund — Financial Access Survey (FAS)

Name: International Monetary Fund — Financial Access Survey (FAS)
Creator: International Monetary Fund
License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)

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Source: International Monetary Fund, Financial Access Survey (FAS)

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

13,960

Temporal coverage

2004-01-01 – 2024-01-01

Licensing & provenance

License: IMF Terms of Use (redistribution with attribution)
Required attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund, Financial Access Survey (FAS)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:FAS
Provider terms: https://www.imf.org/en/about/copyright-and-terms

How to cite

International Monetary Fund — Financial Access Survey (FAS). Retrieved from https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:FAS. 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.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download imf_fas series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/imf_fas
Automated refresh: not yet wired — the data here is the verified initial load. See the Source Status board.

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 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets