Insee Bdm

Name: Insee Bdm
Creator: Insee Bdm

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

Series catalogued

101,768

Temporal coverage

1901-12-31 – 2026-12-31

Measured observations

10,799,719

Licensing & provenance

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

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download insee_bdm series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/insee_bdm.html
Update cadence: monthly
Update strategy: sdmx delta
Storage layout: overwrite-multi-file — one parquet per dataflow, data/clean_full/insee_bdm/{FLOW_ID}.parquet (verified 201 files; schema idbank, obs_date, value, dataflow). Whole BDM corpus is ~150k series across the flows.

Full description

INSEE BDM (Banque de Donnees Macroeconomiques) full ingest. 150,000+ French macroeconomic time series. No API key required. API: https://api.insee.fr/series/BDM/V1 (SDMX 2.1 StructureSpecific format) Strategy: 1. Get all categorisations -> extract distinct Dataflow IDs (388 entries -> ~100 unique flows) 2. For each dataflow: fetch all observations using data/SERIES_BDM/{FLOW_ID} 3. Write one Parquet per dataflow to data/clean_full/insee_bdm/ License: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 — commercial redistribution OK. Attribution: Source: INSEE BDM (Licence Ouverte 2.0) www.insee.fr Run: python jobs/ingest_insee_bdm.py [--dry]

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