ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data

Economic Data Time Travel from the St. Louis Fed's Economic Research Division.

ALFRED® allows you to retrieve vintage versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history. In general, economic data for past observation periods are revised as more accurate estimates become available. As a result, previous vintages of data can be superseded and may no longer be available from various data sources. Vintage or real time economic data allows academics to reproduce others' research, build more accurate forecasting models, and analyze economic policy decisions using the data available at the time.

Update: Vintage data have been added for 24 series- 21 Greenbook projection series (first vintage 1978-01-11), 2 CPI series (first vintage 1949-03-24), and Real Potential GDP (first vintage 1991-01-30). More ... (2008-08-15)

Currently, vintage data are available for 19,743 series in 14 categories:

The earliest vintage available is 1927-01-26 for series Industrial Production Index.

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