These 3143 series on net county migration come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. To build this data set, the American Community Survey asked members of households whether they lived in the same residence 1 year ago. For those … Continue reading →

FRED will no longer include data from State Street: On November 10, 2016, their PriceStats Inflation Series will be deleted from the FRED database, Excel Add-in, mobile apps, APIs, and all other FRED services. Custom links to these series or … Continue reading →

The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the December 2016 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working paper by Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng.

These 13 annual series on households and families come from the Families and Living Arrangements dataset produced by the U.S. Census. This dataset is based on the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) and is weighted according to population. FRED … Continue reading →

FRED has just created a monthly data series by combining two monthly West Texas Intermediate spot oil price series from the EIA and WSJ. This combination makes one continuous time series from January 1946 to present.

FRED has just expanded the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis by over 20,000 series. This data set contains annual and quarterly frequencies, sector-based industry break-downs, real series, nominal series, and quantity indexes. … Continue reading →

The Board of Governors recently announced changes to several data series from the H.15 releases. Because of these changes, the St. Louis Fed will cease updating the following Selected Interest Rate and Interest Rate Spread series: Moody’s corporate bonds, eurodollar deposits, interest rate swaps, … Continue reading →

The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the September 2016 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working paper by Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng.

  FRED has just added 3,382 quarterly series from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages survey produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (The data are also in GeoFRED.) This dataset represents average weekly wages for each metropolitan statistical … Continue reading →

  FRED has just added 2,880 annual series from the Personal Consumption Expenditures by State release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This data set contains personal consumption expenditures for each state, including per capita measures and sector-based data.