{"datasets":[{"slug":"cpi-jp","title":"Consumer Price Index — Japan (national, middle-class indices)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2025=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official national CPI middle-class indices from January 1970 to the latest month, on the 2025 base. Includes headline and exclusion-based aggregates, the ten major expenditure groups, and middle-class items."},{"slug":"cpi-jp-items","title":"Consumer Price Index — Japan (national, detailed items)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2025=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official national CPI at full item depth from January 1970 to the latest month, on the 2025 base: every published aggregation level plus the individual items priced for the index (about 750 series)."},{"slug":"boj-assets","title":"Bank of Japan — Asset Holdings and Transactions","country":"Japan","agency":"Bank of Japan","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"End-of-month stocks and during-month flows of the Bank of Japan's principal balance-sheet items — JGB holdings with gross outright purchases and redemptions, Treasury discount bills, corporate bonds, ETFs, J-REITs, loans, and the monetary base — in units of ¥100 million, July 1996 to the latest month. Flows can be negative: a negative JGB net flow is balance-sheet runoff (QT). Source database MD09, 'Monetary Base and the Bank of Japan's Transactions'."},{"slug":"jgb-yields","title":"JGB Yield Curve — Constant-Maturity Yields","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"daily","description":"Daily constant-maturity yields on Japanese government bonds for 15 maturities from 1 to 40 years, in percent, computed by the Ministry of Finance from JSDA reference prices and published every business day since September 1974. Longer maturities begin when the tenor was first issued (40-year in 2007). Yields can be negative."},{"slug":"jnto-visitors","title":"Visitor Arrivals to Japan — by market","country":"Japan","agency":"Japan National Tourism Organization","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly foreign visitor arrivals to Japan by market, from January 2003, as published by the Japan National Tourism Organization: the national total, six regional totals, and named markets down to individual countries. Computed by JNTO from Ministry of Justice immigration statistics; excludes foreign permanent residents and crew, includes landings at a port of call, in transit and cruise passengers. The two most recent months are estimates covering a subset of markets, superseded by provisional and then definitive figures."},{"slug":"population-jp","title":"Population by Prefecture — Japan (Basic Resident Register)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Population, households and the year's register flows for all 47 prefectures and the national total, from the Basic Resident Register as of 1 January, split three ways — all residents, Japanese residents and foreign residents — with population by five-year age band and sex for each. Administrative counts of registered residents, not a survey estimate."},{"slug":"population-jp-history","title":"Prefecture Population, Long Run — Japan (Regional Statistics)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Population, age structure, foreign residents, households, births, deaths and migration for all 47 prefectures and the national total, back to 1975, from the System of Social and Demographic Statistics (社会・人口統計体系) table A, Population and Households. Compiled by the Statistics Bureau from the census, the population estimates, vital statistics and the Basic Resident Register, so reference dates differ by indicator: register counts are as of 1 January of the following year, estimates as of 1 October, and births, deaths and migration are calendar-year flows, as is the total fertility rate, the one published rate carried here. Coverage varies by indicator — foreign register counts begin in 2013, the fertility rate in 1980, and household counts appear only in census years."},{"slug":"trade-semis","title":"Semiconductor Trade — Exports and Imports by Partner","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese trade in semiconductors, semiconductor components and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, by partner country, from January 2001. Value in thousands of yen and quantity in the commodity's published unit, exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance in the principal-commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan. Export and import commodity classifications are separate and their codes do not correspond."},{"slug":"population-jp-municipal","title":"Population by Municipality — Japan (Basic Resident Register)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Population, households and the year's register flows for every municipality in Japan — about 1,900 cities, towns, villages and wards — from the Basic Resident Register as of 1 January, split into all residents, Japanese residents and foreign residents, with population by five-year age band and sex for each. Designated cities, districts and Tokyo's island grouping are published as totals alongside the municipalities they contain; those rows are marked and must never be added to the rest."},{"slug":"trade-inputs","title":"Semiconductor Inputs — Wafers by Partner (HS detail)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese exports and imports of silicon wafers (HS 3818.00) by partner country from January 2001, from the HS-detail commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan. Value in thousands of yen and quantity in kilograms, exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance. The raw material one step upstream of the chips in trade-semis."},{"slug":"rice-prices-jp","title":"Rice Contract Prices — by Origin and Variety (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly volume-weighted average contract prices for Japanese table rice, in yen per 60kg of brown rice including freight, packaging and consumption tax, for each 産地品種銘柄 origin-and-variety brand and for the published all-brand average. Surveyed by MAFF among shippers handling 5,000 tonnes a year or more, monthly from September 2008. A brand-month with no contract, or with under 100 tonnes contracted, is not published and stays missing."},{"slug":"rice-inventory-jp","title":"Private Rice Inventories — Japan","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"End-of-month private-sector stocks of brown rice held by the trade, in ten thousand tonnes, monthly from July 2020. Split by the stage holding the stock — shippers, wholesalers and the two combined — and within each stage between the current crop and one-year-old rice. Published by MAFF with the monthly rice contract-price release."},{"slug":"agri-prices","title":"Agricultural Price Indices — Output and Inputs (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":"2020=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly price indices for what Japanese farmers sell and what they buy, on the 2020 base — 20 classes of farm output from rice to raw milk, and 17 classes of farm input from fertiliser and feed to machinery, fuel and hired services. The confirmed annual report is published with a long lag, so the newest month is normally more than a year old. Input prices run from April 1957 and output prices from April 1963."},{"slug":"rice-production-cost","title":"Rice Production Cost — Japan","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"What it costs to grow a crop of rice in Japan, by crop year — every cost line from seed and fertiliser to machinery depreciation and family labour, and the three published cost levels: total spend, cost net of by-products, and full cost with interest on own capital and rent on own land imputed. Stated per 10 ares and per 60kg, nationally from the 1951 crop and by planted-area band from 1960."},{"slug":"ja-statistics","title":"Agricultural Co-operatives — Segment Income Statement (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"The Japanese agricultural co-operatives' own income statement, split across the businesses they run — banking, mutual insurance, farm marketing and supply, living services and farm guidance — in thousands of yen by fiscal year from 2004, including the farm-guidance loss charged back to the segments that earn. National, from MAFF's annual census of every multi-purpose co-operative."},{"slug":"accommodation-jp","title":"Accommodation Survey — guest nights and occupancy","country":"Japan","agency":"Japan Tourism Agency","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly guest nights and room occupancy in Japanese accommodation, from the Japan Tourism Agency's Accommodation Survey. Guest nights for the nation, the 47 prefectures and the 10 transport-bureau regions run from January 2011, split into Japanese and foreign guests, with room occupancy by hotel type over the same span. From January 2019 the detail opens up: foreign guest nights by 24 visitor nationalities, guest nights by hotel type, and the leisure/business and in-prefecture/out-of-prefecture splits. Facility-size bands and 175 named municipalities begin in January 2026, when the survey changed how it stratifies properties."},{"slug":"trade-autos","title":"Motor Vehicle Trade — Exports and Imports by Partner","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese exports and imports of motor vehicles, passenger cars, buses and trucks, vehicle parts and motorcycles, by partner country, from January 2001. Value in thousands of yen and quantity in the published unit (number of vehicles; kilograms for parts), exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance in the principal-commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan. Export and import commodity codes are separate vocabularies and do not correspond."},{"slug":"trade-energy","title":"Energy Trade — Fuel Imports and Refined-Product Exports by Partner","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese imports of crude oil, liquefied natural gas, coal, refined petroleum products and liquefied petroleum gas, and exports of refined petroleum products, by partner country, from January 2001. Value in thousands of yen and quantity in the published unit (kilolitres for oil, tonnes for gas and coal), exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance in the principal-commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan. Export and import commodity codes are separate vocabularies and do not correspond."},{"slug":"trade-machinery","title":"Machinery Trade — Exports and Imports by Partner","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese exports and imports of general machinery by partner country from January 2001: the published group plus machine tools, construction and mining machinery, internal-combustion engines, pumps and compressors and bearings (exports), and computers, power-generating machinery, machine tools, construction machinery and air conditioners (imports). Value in thousands of yen and quantity in the published unit where one is published, exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance in the principal-commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan. Export and import commodity codes are separate vocabularies and do not correspond."},{"slug":"trade-pharma","title":"Pharmaceutical Trade — Imports and Exports by Partner","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese imports and exports of medical products by partner country from January 2001: the published group plus the vitamin, antibiotic and hormone lines beneath it. Value in thousands of yen and quantity in kilograms (grams for imported antibiotics), exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance in the principal-commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan. Finished medicines are inside the group and are not published as a line of their own. Export and import commodity codes are separate vocabularies and do not correspond."},{"slug":"trade-food","title":"Food Trade — Imports and Exports by Partner","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Monthly Japanese food imports and exports by partner country from January 2001: the food section total plus fish and shellfish, pork, beef, maize and wheat (imports), and fish and shellfish, other food preparations, meat and rice (exports). Value in thousands of yen and quantity in tonnes (kilograms for imported fish), exactly as released by the Ministry of Finance in the principal-commodity by country tables of the Trade Statistics of Japan."},{"slug":"cpi-jp-goods-services","title":"Consumer Price Index — Japan (national, goods and services classification)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2025=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official national CPI on the goods and services classification from January 1970 to the latest month, on the 2025 base: goods and their components (agricultural, industrial, utilities, publications), services (public and general, rent and imputed rent), and the durability and public-utility groupings — 41 series."},{"slug":"cpi-jp-sa","title":"Consumer Price Index — Japan (national, seasonally adjusted)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2025=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official seasonally adjusted national CPI from January 2010 to the latest month, on the 2025 base: headline, core (less fresh food), core-core (less fresh food and energy), goods and services. Adjusted by the Statistics Bureau; the whole history moves when the adjustment is re-estimated."},{"slug":"cpi-jp-long","title":"Consumer Price Index — Japan (all items less imputed rent, from 1946)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2025=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official national CPI for all items less imputed rent from August 1946 to the latest month, on the 2025 base — the longest consumer price series the Statistics Bureau publishes, linked across every rebasing since the post-war index began."},{"slug":"cpi-tokyo","title":"Consumer Price Index — Tokyo ward area (middle-class indices, advance)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2025=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official Tokyo ward-area CPI middle-class indices from January 1970 to the latest month, on the 2025 base — headline, the exclusion-based cores, the ten major expenditure groups and middle-class items. The newest month is the mid-month advance, published about three weeks before the national figure for the same month."},{"slug":"cpi-tokyo-items","title":"Consumer Price Index — Tokyo ward area (detailed items, advance)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)","base":"2025=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official Tokyo ward-area CPI at full item depth from January 1970 to the latest month, on the 2025 base: every published aggregation level plus the individual items priced for the index (about 750 series). The newest month is the mid-month advance."},{"slug":"gdp-jp","title":"Quarterly GDP Estimates — Japan (Cabinet Office)","country":"Japan","agency":"Cabinet Office, Economic and Social Research Institute","base":"2020 (chained prices; deflator 2020 = 100)","frequency":"quarterly","description":"Japan's quarterly GDP estimates on the expenditure side — gross domestic product and every demand component, real (chained 2020 prices), nominal and the deflator, all seasonally adjusted at annual rates in ¥ billion — quarterly from 1994 Q1, exactly as the Cabinet Office publishes them and revised at every release. Growth rates are calculated on the platform from these levels and carry their formula."},{"slug":"corporate-finance-jp","title":"Financial Statements Statistics of Corporations, Quarterly — Japan (MOF)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance, Policy Research Institute","base":null,"frequency":"quarterly","description":"The balance sheets and income statements of Japanese companies with capital of ¥10 million or more, from the Ministry of Finance's quarterly corporate survey: sales, operating and ordinary profit, capital investment, depreciation, cash, borrowings, equity holdings and headcount, by industry and by capital size, quarterly from 1954, in ¥ million as published and not seasonally adjusted. Margins and growth rates are calculated on the platform and carry their formula."},{"slug":"fsa-npl","title":"Bad Loans by Bank Group — FRA Disclosed Claims (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Financial Services Agency","base":null,"frequency":"semiannual","description":"Loans classified under the Financial Reconstruction Act, by type of lender — city, former long-term credit, trust and regional banks, shinkin banks and credit co-operatives, with the totals that stack them — every half-year from March 1999: total credit, the disclosed claims in their three tiers, the bad-loan ratio, the loss booked disposing of them and real net business profit. Stitched from every release the FSA has published, newest release winning."},{"slug":"fsa-bank-results","title":"Bank Earnings by Group — Major and Regional Banks (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Financial Services Agency","base":null,"frequency":"semiannual","description":"The FSA's half-yearly summary of bank results for the major banks (from March 2008) and the regional banks (from March 2005): gross business profit and its parts, expenses, net and core net business profit, credit costs, equity gains, net income, loans outstanding, bad loans and the ratio, and capital ratios under the international and domestic standards. Amounts in 億円 and 兆円 as published."},{"slug":"jba-banks","title":"Bank Financial Statements — Every Member Bank (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Japanese Bankers Association","base":null,"frequency":"semiannual","description":"The balance sheet and income statement of every member bank of the Japanese Bankers Association — city, regional, second-tier regional, trust and other banks, listed and unlisted — on the non-consolidated and consolidated basis, every half-year from March 2002, with the same statements aggregated by type of bank. About 215 lines a bank in a fiscal-year edition, in millions of yen as published, keyed by the association's reference codes and each bank's 金融機関コード."},{"slug":"fiscal-jp","title":"General Account — Budget and Settlement (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Japan's central government general account by fiscal year since 1875 — revenue and expenditure, each as the Diet budgeted it (the initial budget plus every supplementary) and as it was finally settled, in ¥ million. The gap between budget and settlement is carried as four separate series and never netted. Fiscal years are dated to the 1 April they begin on."},{"slug":"fiscal-jp-expenditure","title":"General Account Spending by Policy Purpose (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"What Japan's general account is spent on, by fiscal year from 1967, in ¥ million, under the Ministry's own major-expense classification — social security, debt service, local allocation tax grants, defence, public works, education and the one-off contingency reserves. Five measures per heading, never merged: the initial budget, the net of supplementaries, the budget as voted, the budget as finally available after carry-overs, and what was actually spent."},{"slug":"fiscal-jp-ministry","title":"General Account Spending by Ministry (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Japan's general account split by the ministry that spends it, in ¥ million — budget by fiscal year from 1893 and settlement from the Meiji period. Every body is published under the name it had, so the 2001 reorganisation reads as series ending and series beginning rather than a continuous line across a discontinuity. Early years are sampled by the source and the gaps are left as gaps."},{"slug":"fiscal-jp-revenue","title":"General Account Revenue by Head — Budget and Settlement (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Where Japan's general account gets its money, by fiscal year from 1982, in ¥ million — tax and stamp revenue, bond issuance, asset disposals, miscellaneous revenue and the surplus carried in from the prior year — each as budgeted and as settled. Bond issuance is booked as revenue in Japan's general account and is carried as its own series, never merged with tax."},{"slug":"govt-accounts-jp","title":"General Government Accounts — GFS Basis (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Cabinet Office, Economic and Social Research Institute","base":"2015 (SNA 2008, 平成27年基準)","frequency":"annual","description":"Japan's whole government — central government, local government and the social security funds, with the consolidation between them — on the IMF Government Finance Statistics classification, by fiscal year from 1994 in ¥ billion. Revenue and expense line by line, the net operating balance and net lending as published, and the transactions in assets and liabilities that finance them."},{"slug":"govt-debt-jp","title":"Central Government Debt Outstanding (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"quarterly","description":"Everything Japan's central government owes, at the end of every quarter, in ¥100mn: government bonds split into general bonds and FILP bonds and then by tenor, the non-marketable issues, borrowings, financing bills and the guarantees written — with the Ministry's own total. Stocks at quarter end, dated to the first day of the closing month. History is stitched across every published edition, because the file itself carries only the last five years."},{"slug":"local-finance-jp","title":"Prefecture Finances — Settled Accounts (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"The settled accounts of all 47 Japanese prefectures by fiscal year from 2002, in ¥ thousand as published — revenue, expenditure, the difference between them, the funds carried into the next year and the real balance that is left, with the national total. The real balance is the figure the fiscal-health rules key off, and it is taken from the Ministry's file rather than computed."},{"slug":"tax-receipts-jp","title":"National Tax Receipts — Budget vs Outturn (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Finance","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Every national tax Japan levies, by fiscal year from 2022, in ¥ million: what the supplementary budget assumed and what was actually collected, carried as two series so the miss is measurable. Covers the general account's taxes, the taxes handed on to local government and the reconstruction surtax, with the Ministry's own totals."},{"slug":"ust-real-yields","title":"US Treasury Real Yield Curve — TIPS Constant-Maturity Yields","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Department of the Treasury","base":null,"frequency":"daily","description":"Daily real yields on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities at constant maturities of 5, 7, 10, 20 and 30 years, in percent per year, published every business day since January 2003. Subtracting a real yield from the nominal yield of the same maturity gives the breakeven inflation rate for that horizon. Real yields are often negative."},{"slug":"ust-yields","title":"US Treasury Yield Curve — Constant-Maturity Yields","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Department of the Treasury","base":null,"frequency":"daily","description":"Daily par yields on US Treasury securities at constant maturities from 1 month to 30 years, in percent per year, published by the Treasury every business day since January 1990. Derived by the Treasury from end-of-day bid yields on the most recently auctioned securities. A maturity is null before that tenor existed; the 30-year was discontinued in February 2002 and reintroduced in February 2006."},{"slug":"investor-flows-jp","title":"Weekly Trading by Investor Type — Japan","country":"Japan","agency":"Japan Exchange Group","base":null,"frequency":"weekly","description":"What each kind of investor bought and sold in Japanese equities each week — foreigners, individuals, trust banks, investment trusts, business corporations and the rest — in ¥ thousand and in thousands of shares, for TSE Prime, Standard and Growth and the Tokyo and Nagoya markets combined. Sales and purchases as published; the net is calculated. Weeks are dated by the Monday they begin."},{"slug":"margin-jp","title":"Margin Balances — Japan","country":"Japan","agency":"Japan Exchange Group","base":null,"frequency":"weekly","description":"Outstanding margin balances on the Tokyo and Nagoya markets, weekly since August 2002: stock bought on margin and stock sold short, each as a share count in thousands and a value in ¥ million, split by whose account it sits in (customers or the member firm's own book) and by which kind of margin it is (negotiable or standardised). Dated by application date, as the exchange dates them."},{"slug":"boj-deposit-rates","title":"Bank of Japan — Average Interest Rates Posted on Deposits","country":"Japan","agency":"Bank of Japan","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Average interest rates posted at financial institutions on ordinary deposits and on time deposits by term (1 month to 10 years) and by size of deposit (under ¥3 million, ¥3–10 million, ¥10 million and over), in percent per year, monthly from April 2022. Source database IR02, 'Average Interest Rates Posted at Financial Institutions by Type of Deposit'."},{"slug":"boj-loan-rates","title":"Bank of Japan — Average Contract Interest Rates on Loans","country":"Japan","agency":"Bank of Japan","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Average contracted interest rates on loans and discounts, in percent per year, by type of lender — domestically licensed banks, city banks, regional banks, second-tier regional banks and shinkin banks. Rates on new loans made in the month (total, short-term, long-term) from October 1993, and on the outstanding loan book at month-end (total, short, long, overdrafts; loans on deeds and discounted bills) from 1976. Source database IR04, 'Average Contract Interest Rates on Loans and Discounts'."},{"slug":"fsa-regional-fi","title":"Regional Banks, Shinkin Banks and Credit Co-operatives — FSA List (Japan)","country":"Japan","agency":"Financial Services Agency","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Every regional bank, second-tier regional bank, shinkin bank and credit co-operative in Japan — about five hundred institutions — with deposits, loans, the capital ratio, the bad-loan ratio, branches, and loans to and number of SME borrowers for two year-ends, from the FSA's annual list compiled from each institution's own disclosure. Amounts in 百万円 (the bank file's 億円 scaled ×100 exactly); ratios in percent."},{"slug":"cpi-us","title":"Consumer Price Index — United States (CPI-U, all items and categories)","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics","base":"1982-84=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, not seasonally adjusted: all items, the cores, the eight major groups and every published item (about 400 series), monthly — all items from January 1913. Index levels as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics."},{"slug":"cpi-us-areas","title":"Consumer Price Index — United States regions and metro areas (CPI-U)","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics","base":"1982-84=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the four census regions, their divisions, city-size classes and 23 metropolitan areas plus urban Alaska and Hawaii, not seasonally adjusted, by item (about 3,400 series). Most metro areas are priced every other month; the months between are absent, never filled."},{"slug":"cpi-us-sa","title":"Consumer Price Index — United States (CPI-U, seasonally adjusted)","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics","base":"1982-84=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Official CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, seasonally adjusted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: all items, the cores, the major groups and the items the BLS adjusts (about 325 series), monthly — all items from January 1947. Seasonal factors are revised each February; each revision is a new vintage."},{"slug":"cpi-us-weights","title":"Consumer Price Index — United States basket weights (relative importance, CPI-U)","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics","base":null,"frequency":"annual","description":"Relative importance of each component of the CPI for All Urban Consumers, U.S. city average, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics each December: percent of all items, about 320 items and aggregates, December 2020 onward. Joins to the cpi-us index series by BLS item code."},{"slug":"us-avg-prices","title":"US Average Retail Prices (BLS Average Price Data)","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Average retail prices paid by urban consumers, in US dollars per unit — eggs per dozen, gasoline per gallon, ground beef per pound, electricity per kWh and about 160 other items — for the U.S. city average, regions and some metro areas, monthly from 1973–1980 by item. Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the CPI's price quotes; not seasonally adjusted and not quality-adjusted."},{"slug":"us-wage-tracker","title":"Atlanta Fed Wage Growth Tracker (median wage growth, United States)","country":"United States","agency":"Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Median 12-month wage growth of individuals observed a year apart in the Current Population Survey, computed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: overall and by job, demographic, industry and region, in percent, monthly from 1997 (overall from 1983). Headline cuts are 3-month moving averages; demographic cuts 12-month moving averages."},{"slug":"us-wages","title":"US Average Hourly and Weekly Earnings (BLS Current Employment Statistics)","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Average hourly and weekly earnings of private-sector employees from the BLS payroll survey — all employees from 2006, production and nonsupervisory employees from 1964 — for total private, goods-producing and service-providing industries, in current dollars and in 1982-84 dollars (the BLS's real earnings), seasonally adjusted and not. Revised for two months after release and re-benchmarked every February; each revision is a new vintage."},{"slug":"cpi-hk","title":"Consumer Price Indices — Hong Kong (composite, A/B/C, underlying, by division)","country":"Hong Kong","agency":"Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong","base":"Oct 2019–Sep 2020=100","frequency":"monthly","description":"Hong Kong's Consumer Price Indices from the Census and Statistics Department: CPI(A), (B), (C) monthly from 1974 and the Composite from 1980, the underlying indices (net of one-off government relief) from 2007, and all four by the thirteen COICOP divisions from 2005. Index levels as published, October 2019 – September 2020 = 100."},{"slug":"cpi-hk-rates","title":"Consumer Price Indices, published rates — Hong Kong (year-on-year, seasonally adjusted)","country":"Hong Kong","agency":"Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Hong Kong's official CPI inflation rates as the Census and Statistics Department publishes them: the year-on-year change of the Composite CPI, CPI(A), (B), (C) and their underlying counterparts, and the seasonally adjusted average monthly change over the latest three months — in percent, monthly."},{"slug":"gdp-hk","title":"Gross Domestic Product — Hong Kong (quarterly, by expenditure component)","country":"Hong Kong","agency":"Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong","base":"chained (2024) dollars; deflator 2024=100","frequency":"quarterly","description":"Hong Kong's quarterly GDP from the Census and Statistics Department: nominal and real (chained 2024 dollars) GDP, the implicit price deflator, and the expenditure components — consumption, investment, inventories, exports and imports of goods and services — quarterly from 1973, not seasonally adjusted, in HK$ million as published."},{"slug":"job-openings-jp","title":"Job Openings-to-Applicants Ratio, Japan (MHLW Employment Referrals)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Job openings per job seeker at Japan's public employment offices — the active openings-to-applicants ratio the press reports beside the unemployment rate, and the new openings-to-applications ratio — including part-time, excluding part-time and part-time only, original and seasonally adjusted, monthly from 1963, from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's employment referral statistics."},{"slug":"labour-hk","title":"Labour force and unemployment — Hong Kong (rolling 3-month periods)","country":"Hong Kong","agency":"Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Hong Kong's labour force, employment, unemployment and underemployment from the Census and Statistics Department's General Household Survey: counts in thousands and rates in percent, by sex, plus the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate — for rolling three-month periods, monthly from 1985."},{"slug":"retail-hk","title":"Retail sales — Hong Kong (value, volume, by type of outlet)","country":"Hong Kong","agency":"Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Hong Kong's monthly retail sales from the Census and Statistics Department: the total value in HK$ million, the value and volume indices, and the value by type of retail outlet — jewellery and watches, department stores, supermarkets, medicines and cosmetics and more — monthly from October 2004."},{"slug":"trade-hk","title":"External merchandise trade — Hong Kong (exports, imports, balance)","country":"Hong Kong","agency":"Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Hong Kong's monthly merchandise trade from the Census and Statistics Department: total exports, imports, total trade and the trade balance in HK$ million from 1952, and the seasonally adjusted three-month change in exports and imports from 1974."},{"slug":"unemployment-jp","title":"Labour Force Survey — Unemployment and Employment, Japan (Statistics Bureau)","country":"Japan","agency":"Statistics Bureau of Japan","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"Japan's unemployment rate and the headcounts behind it — labour force, employed, employees, unemployed and people outside the labour force — for both sexes, men and women, from the Statistics Bureau's Labour Force Survey. Seasonally adjusted monthly from 1953, original series from July 1972. Headcounts in units of ten thousand persons, exactly as published."},{"slug":"wages-jp","title":"Monthly Labour Survey — Wages, Hours and Employment, Japan (MHLW)","country":"Japan","agency":"Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare","base":"2020 = 100","frequency":"monthly","description":"What Japanese employees earn and work each month, from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's Monthly Labour Survey: the Ministry's published wage and real-wage growth rates; total, contractual, scheduled, overtime and special (bonus) pay in yen, hours and days worked, employment, and the Ministry's wage and real-wage indices (2020 = 100), for all industries and manufacturing, establishments with 5+ employees (from 1990) and 30+ (from 1970), all, full-time and part-time workers. Final figures, as published."},{"slug":"us-labour","title":"US Jobs and Unemployment (BLS Employment Situation and JOLTS)","country":"United States","agency":"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics","base":null,"frequency":"monthly","description":"The headline US labour-market series as the BLS publishes them: the unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted and not, and the broad U-6 measure), participation and employment-population rates, the labor force, employed and unemployed in thousands, total nonfarm and private payrolls, and job openings, hires and quits from JOLTS. Monthly, from 1939 for payrolls and 1948 for the household survey. Revised after first print and re-benchmarked yearly; each revision is a new vintage."}]}