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New to FRED: International Data on Refugee and Migrant Populations

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:25:55 +0000 - FRED has added over 400 series on the refugee population and international migrant stock from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators. International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than the one they live in, … Continue reading →

FRED Expands Federal Reserve Bank Balance Data

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 23:06:43 +0000 - FRED has added over 440 data series from the Board of Governors’ H.4.1 statistical release Factors Affecting Reserve Balances. The release tables provide a detailed view of the reserve balances of U.S. depository institutions, the condition statements of each Federal … Continue reading →

FRED Expands Its Local Unemployment Data

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:36:25 +0000 - FRED has added over 18,500 series from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): monthly and annual-average estimates of civilian labor force, employed people, unemployed people, and unemployment rates for all census regions and … Continue reading →

FRED Adds Banking Assets and Liabilities Data

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:56:19 +0000 - FRED has added over 500 data series from the Board of Governors’ H.8 statistical release Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the United States. Use the release table to easily choose between frequencies (weekly to annual), size (small or … Continue reading →

FRED Adds Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:48:25 +0000 - FRED has added 1,398 quarterly series on state and local government tax revenue at a national level as well as detailed tax revenue data for individual states. This quarterly summary, which has been published by the U.S. Census Bureau since 1962, is … Continue reading →

FRED Adds Average Price Data

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:11:50 +0000 - FRED has added 1,479 monthly series on the average prices of household fuel, motor fuel, and food items.The data come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and accompany the release of the CPI. However, unlike the CPI, average prices are … Continue reading →

FRED Adds Wealth Distribution Data

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:33:29 +0000 - FRED has added 216 quarterly series on the distribution of U.S. household wealth from the Distributional Financial Accounts release from the Board of Governors. The data are broken down by item in the Financial Accounts wealth table and percentile bracket … Continue reading →

FRED’s Freshest Data

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:08:49 +0000 - Users now have access to some of FRED’s most popular data while they’re still hot. FRED now sources the Treasury bond and bill data used to calculate interest rate spreads directly from the U.S. Treasury Department rather than from the … Continue reading →

FRED Adds Resident Population Data

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:42:00 +0000 - FRED has added 383 annual series on resident population estimates by metropolitan statistical area (MSA) from the U.S. Census Bureau. The map above shows annual population growth for all MSAs in the U.S. from 2017 to 2018.

FRED Adds U.S. Financial Accounts Data

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:30:12 +0000 - FRED has added over 36,400 series from the Board of Governors‘ Financial Accounts of the United States Z.1 release. With this addition, FRED now offers the entire Z.1 release, which includes data on transactions and levels of financial assets and … Continue reading →