help freduse                                                   (SJ6-3: st0110)
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Title

    freduse -- Import Federal Reserve economic data


Syntax

        freduse series_1 [series_2 ... series_k] [if] [in] [, file clear]


Description

    freduse imports data from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
    repository into Stata.

    The FRED repository at http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ contains
    more than 3,000 U.S. economic time series.  Each time series is stored in
    a separate file that also contains a string-date variable and header with
    information about the series.  freduse imports a series from a list of
    files into a Stata dataset.


Options

    file specifies that series refer to files stored on a local disk.  By
        default, freduse downloads the FRED series from the repository and
        imports the downloaded data.  You do not need to append .txt to the
        series names, but you must prepend the directory if the files are not
        in the current directory.

    clear specifies that freduse replace any data in memory with the imported
        data.


Remarks

    The names of the FRED series are case sensitive.  If the name of the
    series specified at http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ is in capital
    letters, as most are, you must use capital letters when specifying the
    name to freduse.


Examples

    . freduse GS1M CPN3M GS5

    . freduse mydir/GS1M mydir/CPN3M mydir/GS5, file clear


Author

    David Drukker
    StataCorp
    ddrukker@stata.com