Returns a data frame of around 50 of the most widely used FRED series organised by economic category. The catalogue is curated and embedded in the package: no API call is made. Use it as a starting point for common workflows or as a quick reference when you cannot remember a series ID.
Arguments
- category
Character. Optional category filter. One of
"GDP & Output","Employment","Inflation","Interest Rates","Housing","Financial","Money & Credit","Trade & FX","Consumer","Government & Fiscal". Multiple categories may be passed.- query
Character. Optional free-text filter (e.g.
"unemployment","mortgage").
Value
A fred_tbl (a data.frame subclass) with columns id, title,
frequency, units, category, description.
Details
Filter by category, by free-text query, or both. Free-text matches against the series ID, title, and description (case-insensitive substring match).
See also
Other catalogue:
fred_browse()
Examples
# Full catalogue
fred_catalogue()
#> # FRED: catalogue · 51 rows
#> id title
#> 1 GDP Gross Domestic Product
#> 2 GDPC1 Real Gross Domestic Product
#> 3 GDPPOT Real Potential Gross Domestic Product
#> 4 GDPDEF GDP Implicit Price Deflator
#> 5 INDPRO Industrial Production: Total Index
#> 6 CUMFNS Capacity Utilization: Manufacturing
#> 7 UNRATE Unemployment Rate
#> 8 PAYEMS Total Nonfarm Payrolls
#> 9 CIVPART Labor Force Participation Rate
#> 10 EMRATIO Employment-Population Ratio
#> 11 ICSA Initial Claims
#> 12 JTSJOL Job Openings: Total Nonfarm
#> 13 AHETPI Average Hourly Earnings of Production Workers
#> 14 CPIAUCSL CPI for All Urban Consumers: All Items
#> 15 CPILFESL CPI for All Urban Consumers: Less Food and Energy
#> 16 PCEPI Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index
#> 17 PCEPILFE PCE Excluding Food and Energy: Chain-type Price Index
#> 18 PPIACO Producer Price Index by Commodity: All Commodities
#> 19 T10YIE 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate
#> 20 FEDFUNDS Effective Federal Funds Rate
#> 21 DFF Federal Funds Effective Rate
#> 22 DGS2 Market Yield on 2-Year Treasury
#> 23 DGS10 Market Yield on 10-Year Treasury
#> 24 DGS30 Market Yield on 30-Year Treasury
#> 25 T10Y2Y 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year
#> 26 MORTGAGE30US 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Average
#> 27 CSUSHPISA S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index
#> 28 HOUST Housing Starts: Total New Privately Owned
#> 29 PERMIT New Privately Owned Housing Units Authorized
#> 30 EXHOSLUSM495S Existing Home Sales
#> 31 SP500 S&P 500
#> 32 VIXCLS CBOE Volatility Index: VIX
#> 33 NASDAQCOM NASDAQ Composite Index
#> 34 NFCI Chicago Fed National Financial Conditions Index
#> 35 STLFSI4 St. Louis Fed Financial Stress Index
#> 36 M2SL M2
#> 37 TOTALSL Total Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
#> 38 BUSLOANS Commercial and Industrial Loans, All Commercial Banks
#> 39 BOPGSTB Trade Balance: Goods and Services
#> 40 DEXUSEU U.S. Dollars to Euro Spot Exchange Rate
#> 41 DEXUSUK U.S. Dollars to U.K. Pound Spot Exchange Rate
#> 42 DTWEXBGS Nominal Broad U.S. Dollar Index
#> 43 DCOILWTICO Crude Oil Prices: West Texas Intermediate
#> 44 PCE Personal Consumption Expenditures
#> 45 RSAFS Advance Retail Sales: Retail and Food Services
#> 46 UMCSENT University of Michigan: Consumer Sentiment
#> 47 PI Personal Income
#> 48 GFDEBTN Federal Debt: Total Public Debt
#> 49 GFDEGDQ188S Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as % of GDP
#> 50 FYFSGDA188S Federal Surplus or Deficit as % of GDP
#> 51 DGS3MO 3-Month Treasury Constant Maturity Rate
#> frequency units category
#> 1 Q Bil. of $ GDP & Output
#> 2 Q Bil. chained $ GDP & Output
#> 3 Q Bil. chained $ GDP & Output
#> 4 Q Index 2017=100 GDP & Output
#> 5 M Index 2017=100 GDP & Output
#> 6 M Percent GDP & Output
#> 7 M Percent Employment
#> 8 M Thousands Employment
#> 9 M Percent Employment
#> 10 M Percent Employment
#> 11 W Number Employment
#> 12 M Thousands Employment
#> 13 M Dollars/hr Employment
#> 14 M Index 1982-84=100 Inflation
#> 15 M Index 1982-84=100 Inflation
#> 16 M Index 2017=100 Inflation
#> 17 M Index 2017=100 Inflation
#> 18 M Index 1982=100 Inflation
#> 19 D Percent Inflation
#> 20 M Percent Interest Rates
#> 21 D Percent Interest Rates
#> 22 D Percent Interest Rates
#> 23 D Percent Interest Rates
#> 24 D Percent Interest Rates
#> 25 D Percent Interest Rates
#> 26 W Percent Interest Rates
#> 27 M Index Jan 2000=100 Housing
#> 28 M Thousands Housing
#> 29 M Thousands Housing
#> 30 M Number Housing
#> 31 D Index Financial
#> 32 D Index Financial
#> 33 D Index Financial
#> 34 W Index Financial
#> 35 W Index Financial
#> 36 M Bil. of $ Money & Credit
#> 37 M Bil. of $ Money & Credit
#> 38 M Bil. of $ Money & Credit
#> 39 M Mil. of $ Trade & FX
#> 40 D USD per EUR Trade & FX
#> 41 D USD per GBP Trade & FX
#> 42 D Index Jan 2006=100 Trade & FX
#> 43 D USD per barrel Trade & FX
#> 44 M Bil. of $ Consumer
#> 45 M Mil. of $ Consumer
#> 46 M Index 1966=100 Consumer
#> 47 M Bil. of $ Consumer
#> 48 Q Mil. of $ Government & Fiscal
#> 49 Q Percent Government & Fiscal
#> 50 A Percent Government & Fiscal
#> 51 D Percent Interest Rates
#> description
#> 1 Headline nominal GDP, BEA NIPA
#> 2 Real GDP, chained 2017 dollars
#> 3 CBO estimate of potential output
#> 4 Broad inflation measure from NIPA
#> 5 Federal Reserve industrial production
#> 6 Federal Reserve capacity utilisation
#> 7 BLS headline U-3 unemployment rate
#> 8 BLS Establishment Survey
#> 9 BLS labour force participation
#> 10 BLS employment to population ratio
#> 11 Weekly initial unemployment insurance claims
#> 12 JOLTS job openings
#> 13 BLS production and nonsupervisory wages
#> 14 BLS headline CPI, seasonally adjusted
#> 15 BLS core CPI
#> 16 BEA headline PCE deflator
#> 17 BEA core PCE deflator (Fed target)
#> 18 BLS PPI all commodities
#> 19 Market-implied 10y inflation expectations
#> 20 Monthly average effective fed funds rate
#> 21 Daily effective fed funds rate
#> 22 Constant-maturity 2y Treasury yield
#> 23 Constant-maturity 10y Treasury yield
#> 24 Constant-maturity 30y Treasury yield
#> 25 Yield-curve slope, classic recession indicator
#> 26 Freddie Mac PMMS 30y mortgage rate
#> 27 National house price index
#> 28 Census housing starts
#> 29 Census building permits
#> 30 NAR existing home sales
#> 31 S&P 500 closing price
#> 32 Implied volatility on S&P 500 options
#> 33 NASDAQ closing price
#> 34 Broad financial conditions, zero-mean
#> 35 Composite financial stress, zero-mean
#> 36 Broad money stock
#> 37 G.19 consumer credit total
#> 38 C&I bank lending
#> 39 BEA monthly trade balance
#> 40 Daily noon-buying USD/EUR
#> 41 Daily noon-buying USD/GBP
#> 42 Federal Reserve broad trade-weighted USD
#> 43 WTI spot price
#> 44 Headline nominal PCE
#> 45 Census retail sales advance estimate
#> 46 Michigan consumer sentiment headline
#> 47 BEA personal income
#> 48 Treasury total public debt outstanding
#> 49 Debt-to-GDP ratio
#> 50 Annual fiscal balance share of GDP
#> 51 Constant-maturity 3-month Treasury yield
# Inflation series only
fred_catalogue(category = "Inflation")
#> # FRED: catalogue · 6 rows
#> id title frequency
#> 1 CPIAUCSL CPI for All Urban Consumers: All Items M
#> 2 CPILFESL CPI for All Urban Consumers: Less Food and Energy M
#> 3 PCEPI Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index M
#> 4 PCEPILFE PCE Excluding Food and Energy: Chain-type Price Index M
#> 5 PPIACO Producer Price Index by Commodity: All Commodities M
#> 6 T10YIE 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate D
#> units category description
#> 1 Index 1982-84=100 Inflation BLS headline CPI, seasonally adjusted
#> 2 Index 1982-84=100 Inflation BLS core CPI
#> 3 Index 2017=100 Inflation BEA headline PCE deflator
#> 4 Index 2017=100 Inflation BEA core PCE deflator (Fed target)
#> 5 Index 1982=100 Inflation BLS PPI all commodities
#> 6 Percent Inflation Market-implied 10y inflation expectations
# Free-text search
fred_catalogue(query = "mortgage")
#> # FRED: catalogue · 1 row
#> id title frequency units
#> 1 MORTGAGE30US 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Average W Percent
#> category description
#> 1 Interest Rates Freddie Mac PMMS 30y mortgage rate
# Combined
fred_catalogue(category = "Interest Rates", query = "treasury")
#> # FRED: catalogue · 5 rows
#> id title frequency units
#> 1 DGS2 Market Yield on 2-Year Treasury D Percent
#> 2 DGS10 Market Yield on 10-Year Treasury D Percent
#> 3 DGS30 Market Yield on 30-Year Treasury D Percent
#> 4 T10Y2Y 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year D Percent
#> 5 DGS3MO 3-Month Treasury Constant Maturity Rate D Percent
#> category description
#> 1 Interest Rates Constant-maturity 2y Treasury yield
#> 2 Interest Rates Constant-maturity 10y Treasury yield
#> 3 Interest Rates Constant-maturity 30y Treasury yield
#> 4 Interest Rates Yield-curve slope, classic recession indicator
#> 5 Interest Rates Constant-maturity 3-month Treasury yield