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Data Revisions with FRED®
This Page One Economics Data Primer describes the reasons data are revised and updated. More accurate data facilitate better decisionmaking.Learn how FRED aggregates the latest data and ALFRED captures previous versions of the data.
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Ethical Use of Data with FRED
What are the ethical considerations for researchers who use data? This data primer describes standards for gathering, analyzing, storing, and distributing data for new data users and serves as a reference for advanced data users.
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Measuring Financial and Economic Risk with FRED
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) provides access to a wide range of time-series data. Several of those series signal stress levels in financial markets and the probability of economic recession. This article describes indexes of financial and economic recession risk to new data users and can serve as a reference to advanced data users.
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President's Message: Gateway to the World’s Economic Data
People frequently tell St. Louis Fed President James Bullard that the main way they know the St. Louis Fed is through FRED—the Bank’s signature economic database.