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Last edited by Michel Juillard Dec 05, 2017
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bank_of_england

BankOfEngland

Provider

  • provider_name: Bank of England
  • provider_longname: Bank of England
  • provider URL: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk
  • beta version of new site: https://beta.bankofengland.co.uk
  • region: UK
  • terms of use:
  • approximate number of datasets: 64

Data accessibility

  • SDMX: (If yes, links and SDMX releases implemented: No
  • REST API: see https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/help.asp?Back=Y&Highlight=XML#XML
  • Bulk Download: (if yes, links and formats: xls, https://beta.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/statistics/bankstats-latest-tables.zip
  • Alphabetical list of datasets: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/CategoryIndex.asp?Travel=NIxAZx&CategId=allcats&CategName=Combined%20A%20to%20Z
  • Account: no

Desired datasets

  • Description: Among all the tables available on the site, we take only Bankstats tables

Data tree

  • Existence of a hierachy of datasets on web site: several

  • How to recover the information: difficult to match A-Z datasets with topics or tables

    Categories:

    • Bankstats
    • A Money & Lending
    • B Monetary financial institutions' balance sheets, income & expenditure
    • C Further analyses of deposits and lending
    • D Public sector debt and money markets operations etc (including reserves)
    • E Capital issuance: bonds, equities and commercial paper
    • F Financial derivatives
    • G Interest and exchange rates etc.

Datasets

64 Excel files with multiple sheets. Each file is a dataset, each sheet is a dimension

  • datasetCode: table number, cell A1

  • datasetName: cell A2

  • how to get release date: top of bankstats html page

  • dataset docHref: no

  • dataset notes: yes (bottom of the sheet)

  • dimension_list:

    • u: units, cell A3
    • i: indicator, cell A5
    • sa: seasonal adustment, cell C3 (if available)
  • use of attributes: ?

  • attribute_list: no

  • available frequencies: annual, quarterly, monthly

  • availability of previous updates: yes, via API

  • existence of real time datasets: no

Series

  • Series key: concatenation of 3 or 4 letter prefix in column B (first non empty cell) and code in the column of the series. Some prefixes are ambiguous when two prefixes are used in the same sheet. (ex. LPM/RPM). The only solution that I can think of is to use the API to validate one combination or the other.
  • Series name: concatenate the indicator label and the header lines on top of the series (duplicate cells spanning several columns in the header)
  • Series docHref: no
  • Series notes: yes (next to series code and bottom of the sheet)
  • missing values: ?
  • date format: yyyy mmm,
  • mixed frequencies in the same dataset: no

Updates

  • calendar of future updates: yes, https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news
  • summary of previous updates: yes, https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news
  • regular updates: no, most of the updates happen at 1:00 am or 10:30 am
  • RSS flow: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/rss/statistics
  • best way to monitor updates: consult RSS every day at 1:05 am and 10:35 am (check the delay to appear on RSS)

Special problems

There is no simple way to learn series codes. Sometime testing via the API seems necessary

Other remarks

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