Public Sector · Example Payload

Public Sector Dataset Example

Consumer complaints about financial products and services submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and forwarded to the responding company. Each row represents a consumer complaint with product, sub-product, issue, company, state, ZIP code, submission method, date received, company response, timely-response flag, and consumer disputed flag.

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Public Sector Dataset Example is an example object payload from Public Sector, with 21 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

@context@typeidentifiertitledescriptionkeywordmodifiedissuedpublishercontactPointaccessLevellicensethemespatialtemporalaccrualPeriodicitylandingPagedistributionlanguagebureauCodeprogramCode

Example Payload

{
  "@context": "https://api-evangelist.github.io/public-sector/json-ld/public-sector-context.jsonld",
  "@type": "PublicSectorDataset",
  "identifier": "https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/consumer-complaint-database",
  "title": "Consumer Complaint Database",
  "description": "Consumer complaints about financial products and services submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and forwarded to the responding company. Each row represents a consumer complaint with product, sub-product, issue, company, state, ZIP code, submission method, date received, company response, timely-response flag, and consumer disputed flag.",
  "keyword": [
    "consumer complaints",
    "financial products",
    "CFPB",
    "credit reporting",
    "mortgages",
    "debt collection"
  ],
  "modified": "2026-05-22T08:00:00Z",
  "issued": "2012-12-01T00:00:00Z",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau",
    "url": "https://www.consumerfinance.gov",
    "subOrganizationOf": "U.S. Government"
  },
  "contactPoint": {
    "fn": "CFPB Open Data Team",
    "hasEmail": "mailto:cfpb_open_data@cfpb.gov"
  },
  "accessLevel": "public",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "theme": ["Consumer", "Finance"],
  "spatial": "United States",
  "temporal": "2011-12-01/2026-05-22",
  "accrualPeriodicity": "R/P1D",
  "landingPage": "https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/",
  "distribution": [
    {
      "title": "Consumer Complaint Database - CSV",
      "description": "Full CSV download of the Consumer Complaint Database, refreshed nightly.",
      "mediaType": "text/csv",
      "format": "CSV",
      "downloadURL": "https://files.consumerfinance.gov/ccdb/complaints.csv.zip",
      "byteSize": 1840000000
    },
    {
      "title": "Consumer Complaint Database - SODA Endpoint",
      "description": "Socrata Open Data API endpoint with SoQL query support.",
      "mediaType": "application/json",
      "format": "SODA",
      "accessURL": "https://data.consumerfinance.gov/resource/s6ew-h6mp.json",
      "conformsTo": "https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.consumerfinance.gov/s6ew-h6mp"
    },
    {
      "title": "Consumer Complaint Database - REST API",
      "description": "Public search REST API powering the CFPB consumer-complaints web UI.",
      "mediaType": "application/json",
      "format": "REST",
      "accessURL": "https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/api/v1/"
    }
  ],
  "language": ["en-US"],
  "bureauCode": ["582:60"],
  "programCode": ["582:001"]
}