BUBA

Provider

• provider_name: BUBA
• provider_longname: Bundesbank
• provider URL: https://www.bundesbank.de
• region: DE
• terms of use: https://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Dossier/Service/terms_of_use.html?notFirst=true&docId=109018
• approximate number of datasets: 41

Data accessibility

• SDMX: (If yes, links and SDMX releases implemented: Yes
• REST API: https://www.bundesbank.de/SiteGlobals/Statistik/Hilfe/EN/help_its_text_2.html#doc36074bodyText9
• Bulk Download::
  • https://www.bundesbank.de/cae/servlet/StatisticDownload?its_fileFormat=Archive&mode=its xlm. A single zip file for all datasets. List of all time series (not that useful).
  • request by topic: https://www.bundesbank.de/cae/servlet/StatisticDownload?its_fileFormat=Archive&mode=its&tree=

   Topic                                   Anchor           
   Macroeconomic accounting systems        GESAMT           
   Money and capital markets               GELD             
   Banks and other financial institutions  BANKEN           
   Enterprises and households              UNTERNEHMEN      
   Public finances                         FINANZEN         
   External sector                         AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT 
   Euro-area aggregates                    EURORAUM         
   IMF related data                        IWF              
   Financial stability                     FINANZSTAB       

• each file contains one category tree file, one list file per dataset with name of timeseries files, file series files
• request DSD: https://www.bundesbank.de/cae/servlet/StatisticDownload?metaDSI=

• Account: No

Desired datasets

• Description: All datasets

Data tree

• Existence of a hierachy of datasets on web site: https://www.bundesbank.de/Navigation/EN/Statistics/statistics.html
• How to recover the information: parse html page and match with dataset names

Datasets

• datasetCode: first element of timeseries code (before .)
• how to get release date: field in each file
• dataset docHref: no
• dataset notes: no
• dimension_list: in DSD.
• use of attributes: ?
• attribute_list: ?
• available frequencies: W? M Q Y
• availability of previous updates: ?
• existence of real time datasets: https://www.bundesbank.de/Navigation/EN/Statistics/Time_series_databases/Real_Time_Data/realtime_zeitreihen_node.html (we don't use it for now)

Series

• Series key: in timeseries file
• Series name: <BBK_TITLE_ENG> in timeseries file
• Series docHref: no
• Series notes: no
• missing values: ? (observation may be absent from timeseries file. NA should be added )
• date format: YYYY-MM (quarter seems to be designated by their first month)
• mixed frequencies in the same dataset: no

Updates

• calendar of future updates: no
• summary of previous updates:
  • https://www.bundesbank.de/cae/servlet/StatisticDownload?its_fileFormat=listXml&mode=its&its_date=
  • Example: all time series updated last week: https://www.bundesbank.de/cae/servlet/StatisticDownload?its_fileFormat=listXml&mode=its&its_date=lastWeek
• regular updates: no
• RSS flow: https://www.bundesbank.de/Navigation/EN/Service/RSS/rss.html
• best way to monitor updates: check for updated seris every day

Special problems

(like variable names in ESRI)

Other remarks

Data samples

• location: in test_xxx file or light files in dlstats/dlstats/tests/resources
• description: a very brief description of the data samples