The 38 core variables
These variables, listed hereunder, are downloadable by EABCN fellows on this page as a whole, clicking on data, or variable by variable clicking on each variable. Each excel file consists of two sheets. Sheet one contains the data the following information: the name of the Monthly Bulletin block of variables where the series of interest can be found, the name (code) of the variable, its description and the unit of measure of the series of interest relative to the August 2005 Monthly Bulletin. The data are stored along two dimensions: the months in which they were stored for the publication on the MoBu, i.e. the vintages, on the columns and the dates to which they refer on the rows.

The sheet code details the history of the code, i.e. the description of the time series included in the database for each month, vintage, in which the data where collected.

All the information about units of measure, seasonal and/or working day adjustments, availability, changes of the Euro area concept, changes of the base and other methodological issues are reported, for each series, in the explanatory notes.

Variables included in the dataset should be seen as an economic concept. The series associated to the concept can be different across vintages and should be selected to reflect the policy relevance. For example in the Area Wide exercise attached, for the concept INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION we consider the EU11 (excluding Greece) aggregate before Greece entered the union, and EU12 after.

	Explanatory Notes
	Data (See note below)
	List of variables and access to individual spreadsheets (See note below)
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The 200+ Dataset
The variables of this database are collected by vintage (monthly) on the basis of their frequency. The available vintages cover 2001:1 to 2007:6. For each vintage, the variables of the dataset are collected in three files: a file containing all the monthly variables, a file containing all the quarterly variables, and file containing all the annual variables. Three explanatory notes are available, each referring to a different frequency

	Series
	Annual	Click here to download the zipfile containing all the vintages for the annual series and the documentation
		Click here to download explanatory note (pdf file)
	Quarterly	Click here to download the zipfile containing all the vintages for the quarterly series and the documentation
		Click here to download explanatory note (pdf file)
	Monthly	Choose a vintage from the monthly series	January 2001 February 2001 March 2001 April 2001 May 2001 June 2001 July 2001 August 2001 September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 January 2002 February 2002 March 2002 April 2002 May 2002 June 2002 July 2002 August 2002 September 2002 October 2002 November 2002 December 2002 January 2003 February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007
		Click here to download explanatory note (pdf file)