FRED Add-In for Microsoft® Excel®

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data (FRED) Add-In is free software that will significantly reduce the amount of time spent collecting and organizing macroeconomic data. The FRED add-in provides free access to over 760,000 data series from various sources (e.g., BEA, BLS, Census, and OECD) directly through Microsoft Excel.

Key Features:

• One-click instant download of economic time series.
• Browse the most popular data and search the FRED database.
• Quick and easy data frequency conversion and growth rate calculations.
• Instantly refresh and update spreadsheets with newly released data.
• Create graphs with NBER recession shading and an auto update feature.

View demo video of new features in Add-in for Excel 2010 and 2013