Every figure on MacroDataHub originates with an official statistical agency or central bank, alongside a few well-established international bodies. This page names each source, says what it covers, and explains how we compile it, so you can check any number against the original.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s data warehouse, which aggregates the primary releases of the BLS, BEA, Census, the Fed and the Department of Commerce.
GDP, CPI, PPI, industrial production, fixed-asset investment, retail sales, new home prices across 70 cities, labour data and figures for all 31 provinces — taken from the release pages and the monthly database.
The loan prime rate and policy rates, the reserve requirement ratio, open market operations, MLF and SLF, money supply, credit and total social financing.
The statistical office of the European Union: GDP, HICP, industrial production, retail trade, labour, construction, government debt and the balance of payments — harmonised so member states can be compared directly.
The European Central Bank: policy rates, €STR, Euribor, the yield curve, money supply, credit, the Eurosystem balance sheet and official reference exchange rates.
Euro area PMI indices. PMI history is only licensed under subscription, so the PMI table here records periods from the point we began collecting; the leading indicator with history back to 1980 is the European Commission’s sentiment survey suite.
The UK’s national statistical institute: monthly GDP, CPI and CPIH, the Retail Prices Index, retail sales, the Index of Production and of Services, producer prices, the labour market, productivity, the balance of payments and the public finances.
Bank Rate and SONIA, the nominal and index-linked gilt curves, money supply and credit, mortgage rates and approvals, and official sterling exchange rates — daily series reaching back to 1975.
Overseas Trade Statistics compiled from customs declarations: UK exports and imports of goods by partner country and product, monthly since 2000 — including bilateral trade with Vietnam under the UKVFTA.
The official UK House Price Index: average prices and indices for the UK, its four countries, the nine English regions and roughly 390 local authorities, by property type, buyer type and funding, with history back to 1968.
The ONS labour market database: the claimant count by region back to 1971, the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, gross disposable household income by region, business counts by size and turnover, and the Annual Population Survey — the regional detail the published bulletins leave out.
The rail regulator’s data portal: passenger journeys since 1872, passenger kilometres since 1938, freight moved and lifted by commodity, and the fares index split into regulated and unregulated tickets.
Britain’s longest house price series, back to the fourth quarter of 1952, with regional, property-type, buyer-type and affordability breakdowns. It is a lender’s index built from mortgage approvals, so it leads the official Land Registry measure and does not always agree with it.
Harmonised short-term indicators: the UK share price index and the composite leading, business confidence and consumer confidence indicators — the openly published stand-ins for the FTSE and the PMI, which are both licensed commercially.
Half-hourly carbon intensity of the British grid and the share of generation coming from each fuel, published free under the Carbon Intensity API with the University of Oxford.
National accounts, consumer prices, the labour force survey, business and household surveys, industrial production and demography, taken from the BDM time-series database.
Interest rates, money, bank lending and deposits, corporate goods and services prices, the balance of payments, flow of funds and the Tankan survey, taken from the Time-Series Data Search API.
GDP, CPI, industrial production, retail sales, investment and population — taken from the monthly socio-economic situation report and the PxWeb system.
The central reference exchange rate, policy rates, open market operations and the balance of payments.
How we compile the data
We collect figures from official releases — periodic reports, statistical yearbooks and open data APIs — from the bodies above, then normalise them into one consistent structure: every indicator carries an explicit unit, a frequency (monthly, quarterly or annual) and an unambiguous reference period. Published values are reproduced as they stand; MacroDataHub does not adjust or interpolate them.
Update frequency
Most macroeconomic indicators are updated monthly or quarterly, as soon as the source agency publishes. Some — annual series in particular — follow a yearly cycle. The most recent period is always shown on the indicator’s own page.
Corrections & feedback
If you find a discrepancy between a figure here and the original release, please tell us so we can check and correct it. See our corrections policy, or read more about MacroDataHub.
