You may choose to receive email notifications when new data are added to any series of interest to you. To do so, you will need a (free) FRED® account. To receive notifications, click the “Account Tools” button below the graph … Continue reading
Customize your graph by adding a straight line between two data points. To create a user-defined line, above the graph, click the “EDIT GRAPH” button. In the pop-up box that appears, select the “ADD LINE” tab. Click the “Create user-defined … Continue reading
With a (free) FRED account, you will be able to: To create a free user account: Your privacy is important to us. For a user account, we require only a valid email address and password of your choice. Please read … Continue reading
You can create a customized formula to combine two series on one graph line. To do so, above the graph, click the “EDIT GRAPH” button. In the pop-up box that appears, click the “EDIT LINE” tab. (If you have more … Continue reading
Above the graph, select the “EDIT GRAPH” button. In the pop-up box that appears, click the “EDIT LINES” drop-down menu and select the line (series) you would like to remove. Click the red trash can button. A pop-up box will … Continue reading
Above the graph, click the “EDIT GRAPH” button. In the pop-up box that appears, click the “ADD LINE” tab. Click the text box and type keywords for the series you want to add. A list of the most popular suggestions will … Continue reading
Data values are calculated in the following order: (i) frequency aggregation (if any), (ii) units transformation (if any; e.g., percent change), and (iii) any formula you may have created (e.g., the formula “a – b” would find the difference between … Continue reading
When converting higher-frequency values to lower-frequency values, the average, sum, and end-of-period aggregation methods use the same number of decimal places as the original data. For example, the monthly values of 100.1 (Jan), 100.4 (Feb), and 100.9 (March) will be … Continue reading
It is possible for higher-frequency periods to overlap lower-frequency periods. For example, a week can start in one month and end in the next month. In these cases, FRED frequency aggregation will include the higher-frequency value in only one of … Continue reading
Except for the first and last observations, the average, sum, and end-of-period aggregation methods ignore any other missing values. For example, consider a daily series from 2003-06-01 to 2003-07-31 with a missing value for Friday 2000-07-04, the US Independence Day … Continue reading