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Moody's Analytics Time Series
Schema for a Moody's Analytics Data Buffet time series response, representing economic, demographic, or financial observations and forecasts over a date range with associated metadata.
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Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mnemonic | string | The unique series mnemonic identifier following the Data Buffet naming convention. Mnemonics encode the concept, geography, and source of the data. |
| description | string | Human-readable description of the time series including the indicator name, geographic scope, and data source. |
| frequency | string | The temporal frequency of the observations in the data array. Indicates how often data points are recorded or reported. |
| source | string | The original data source or statistical agency that produces the raw data. |
| geography | string | The geographic area the series covers. Can range from global aggregates to subnational regions. |
| geographyCode | string | Standardized geographic area code (ISO 3166 country code or FIPS state/county code). |
| units | string | The unit of measurement for the series values, describing what the numeric values represent. |
| transformation | string | The mathematical transformation applied to the original data, if any. |
| category | string | The broad economic or demographic category the series belongs to. |
| startDate | string | The earliest observation date in the returned data range. |
| endDate | string | The latest observation or forecast date in the returned data range. |
| vintage | string | The vintage date of the data, representing when this revision of the data was published. Enables tracking of historical data revisions. |
| lastUpdated | string | ISO 8601 timestamp indicating when the series was last updated in the Data Buffet repository. |
| isForecast | boolean | Whether the series includes forecast values generated by Moody's Analytics proprietary macroeconomic models. |
| forecastStartDate | string | The date at which forecast data begins within the series. All observations before this date are historical actuals. |
| seasonalAdjustment | string | Whether and how the data has been seasonally adjusted. |
| data | array | Array of chronologically ordered date-value pairs representing the time series observations and/or forecasts. Each element corresponds to one period at the series frequency. |