Glossary
Macro terms, data terms, and platform terms in one place
Search matches term names, aliases, categories, and definitions.
Platform-specific workflow terms are marked separately from standard macro vocabulary.
Data and releases
How often a series is observed, such as daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual.
A normalized level series built around a chosen base period rather than a direct dollar or quantity level.
One dated value inside a time series.
The scheduled publication date and time for an economic release.
A sequence of observations over time for one variable.
A snapshot of what the data looked like at a particular point in time, including the revisions known then.
Institutions and sources
The application interface that allows software to search FRED series, release dates, and observations programmatically.
