bd-econ.com
Updated: February 2026
Off-the-shelf examples of gathering, cleaning, and storing economic data with Python. Divided into three parts: 1) microdata (basic CPS, CPS-ASEC); 2) economic data APIs; and 3) the bd CPS extract.
Currently includes the following:
- Economic Data Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
- US Census Bureau - ACS
- US Census Bureau - Trade
- US Census Bureau - M3
- US Treasury
- Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
- European Central Bank (ECB)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- UN ComTrade
- World Bank
- SEC EDGAR
- bd CPS (a tool for creating harmonized partial extracts from Current Population Survey public use microdata)
- bd_CPS_dd.ipynb
- bd_CPS_reader.ipynb
- additional notebooks, see link.
If you have a question or find an error, please e-mail me at brian.w.dew@gmail.com.