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What is the Date Format?
What Formulas are Used to Calculate Growth Rates?
What Dates Are Used for the U.S. Recession Bars?
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How Does FRED Add New Data?
What Does FRED Do To Ensure It Publishes Data Accurately?
How Does FRED Update Its Database?
How Can I Navigate to the Originating Source of the Data?
How to Find More Information About the Data?
What is the Date Format?
What Formulas are Used to Calculate Growth Rates?
What Dates Are Used for the U.S. Recession Bars?
What is Frequency Aggregation?
How are Missing Values Determined for First/Last Observations?
How are Missing Values Treated in Average, Sum, and End of Period Aggregation Methods?
How are Data Aggregated When Periods Overlap?
How is the Number of Decimal Places Determined for Aggregated Values?
What is the Order of Processing in FRED Graph?
Change the Time Range
Edit a Data Series: Units
Format the Graph and Line Settings
Edit a Data Series: Frequency
Edit a Data Series: Frequency Aggregation
Add a Data Series to Graph
Remove a Data Series from Graph
Customize Data, Add Series to Existing Line
Add User Defined Straight Line to a FRED Graph
How Does FRED Add New Data?
What Does FRED Do To Ensure It Publishes Data Accurately?
How Does FRED Update Its Database?
Save Your Graphs
FRED in Action Videos
Contact Us
Sharing Options
Embedding FRED Graphs on Your Website or Blog
What is the Date Format?
What Formulas are Used to Calculate Growth Rates?
What Dates Are Used for the U.S. Recession Bars?
Add a Data Series to Graph
Cite the Data
Customize Data, Add Series to Existing Line
Register for an Account
With a (free) FRED account, you will be able to:
- Create your own economic data dashboards.
- Save customized FRED graphs and maps for sharing and future use.
- Create and store data lists of economic data series. Data lists can be used to download series cross-tabulated by date or to save links to series pages.
- Subscribe to email updates for economic data series.
- Access the FRED API to integrate FRED data with your favorite software packages.
- Add series to your "Favorites List" for easy access to the data you use the most.

To create a free user account:
- Access the user account sign in page and select "Create New Account" in the pop up modal.
- Fill out the form and click on "Create Account."
- Your account will be activated immediately after submitting the form. You will then be able to save and create FRED content.
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