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ALFRED (ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data)

Description

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reproduces almost 2300 historical time series on the following topics:

• Business and fiscal
• Consumer price index (CPI)
  
• Employment and population
  
• Exchange rates
  
• Federal Researve Bank-St. Louis District data
  
• Gross domestic product (GDP) and its components
  
• Producer price indexes (PPI)
  
• Reserves and monetary base
  
• Trade and international transactions
  
• U.S. financial data

Use FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) to access comparable data that was revised. ALFRED covers "vintage" statistics, statistics that have not been revised.

The ALFRED home page includes sample searches.

Dates Covered

Dates vary depending upon variables. The earliest statistics are from January 1927.

Print Counterpart

References include online PDF editions.

• Annual Statistical Digest (Federal Reserve)
  Capen Multimedia Center MicFiche HA195 .A8 9364-5 (Covers 1970-1993 in various compilations)
  http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/astatdig/ (1970-2000 in various compilations with gaps)
  
  
• Banking and Monetary Statistics [1914-1941] (Federal Reserve)
  Lockwood HG2493 .A52
  http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/bms/
  
  
• Banking and Monetary Statistics, 1941-1970 (Federal Reserve) LOCKWOOD HG2493 .A53
  http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/bms2/
  
  
• Federal Reserve Bulletin (Federal Reserve)
  Lockwood Documents US FR 1.3:(1915-2005 with gaps) http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/default.htm (1997-2005)
  
  
• Survey of Current Business
  Lockwood Documents Call number varies depending upon years (1921+with gaps)
  http://www.bea.gov/bea/pubs.htm (1994+) http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/SCB/ (1925-1991)

Related Databases

· Economic Indicators.gov
· FRED
· FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research)

Access Notes

This database is freely available to the general public via the Internet.

Contact

Edward Herman