CalcFi Open Data — 34 Free CC-BY Financial and Macro Time Series

117,956 observations across 34 free CC BY 4.0 financial and macroeconomic time series mirrored verbatim from primary sources: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED), US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Freddie Mac, US Treasury, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), World Bank, Federal Reserve, FDIC, US Energy Information Administration. Mortgage rates, Treasury yields, CPI, PCE, employment, oil, FX, commodities, GDP, consumer credit, and more. Hosted on AWS S3 with permanent DOIs at Figshare, Zenodo, OSF, Kaggle, and Mendeley Data.

Download all

• calcfi-open-data.db — pre-built SQLite database, 15 MB, 117,956 observations + 5 named queries
• datasets.zip — full 34-series CSV bundle, ~3 MB, ready to extract
• datasets/INDEX.json — machine-readable catalog of all series with row counts
• README.md · LICENSE.md

Quick start

Python:

pip install calcfidata
import calcfidata as cf
df = cf.load("30-year-fixed")
df.tail()

Direct CSV access (no client needed):

curl https://calcfi-open-data.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/datasets/30-year-fixed/data.csv
curl https://calcfi-open-data.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/datasets/cpi/data.csv

34 series

License

All data CC BY 4.0 — free for any purpose with attribution to CalcFi and the named primary source per series. See LICENSE.md.

Citation

Salmisto, J. (2026). CalcFi Open Data: 34 Free CC-BY Financial and Macro Time Series Mirrored from Primary Sources [Dataset]. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32332290

Author

Jere Salmisto (ORCID 0009-0000-0916-8684). Independent researcher; founder of calcfi.app. Reach out via the about page.