The SASEFRED Interface Engine

Available Sources That Provide FRED Time Series Data

To obtain a list of the available sources of economic data, enter the following URL in your web browser. Table 48.4 shows some of the sources available.

http://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/sources?api_key=your_fred_apikey

Table 48.4: Some Available Sources of Economic Data

ID	Name
1	Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
3	Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
4	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
6	Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
11	Dow Jones & Company
13	Institute for Supply Management
15	The White House: Council of Economic Advisers
16	The White House: Office of Management and Budget
17	U.S. Congress: Congressional Budget Office
18	U.S. Department of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis
19	U.S. Department of Commerce: Census Bureau
21	U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

You can use the URL= option to store today’s available sources (and associated information about the sources) in a SAS data set. For more information, see the sources query option. For an example see Example 48.13.

You can also use the URL= option to store today’s available releases (and associated information about the releases) in a SAS data set. For more information, see the releases query option. For an example see Example 48.14.