North America central-bank policy tone (per decision)

Commercial use OKFresh

The full snapshot isn't published yet — check back after the next refresh.Download sample CSV Download sample JSONSample rows only (up to 20) — not the complete dataset.

Per-decision policy communication tone for the U.S. Federal Reserve (FOMC post-meeting statements and meeting minutes) and the Bank of Canada (fixed-announcement-date press releases), 2021 to the latest published decision. Each document is scored with a documented deterministic hawkish/dovish phrase lexicon v1.0.0 (longest-match-first non-overlapping counting on word boundaries, no model, no network): tone_score on -100 (dovish) to +100 (hawkish), a 0-100 tone_index, the shift versus the previous decision of the same bank and document type, and a trailing-8-decision z-score. The announced policy action (hold/hike/cut) and target rate level are parsed from the same documents with explicit patterns. Who joins this: a macro/rates desk or FX quant joins per-decision communication tone to their yields, FX, or positioning tables on bank + decision_date; a strategy or investor-relations team joins tone shifts to rate-announcement calendars on decision_date. Only aggregate scores are stored — full source texts stay at their official URLs.

Source: U.S. Federal Reserve (FOMC) + Bank of Canada (Governing Council)
Rows: 137
Columns: 18
Source cadence: Monthly
Last refreshed: Sep 27, 2026
Theme: economy

Column	Type	Description
bank	string	Central bank: FOMC (U.S. Federal Reserve) or BoC (Bank of Canada). Join key.
decision_date	string	Policy decision date, ISO date. Join key.
doc_type	string	statement (FOMC) \| minutes (FOMC) \| press_release (BoC).
doc_title	string	Official document title.
doc_url	string	Official source URL (provenance).
word_count	integer	Words in the scored body text. (unit: words)
hawkish_hits	integer	Hawkish lexicon phrase hits (longest-match-first). (unit: hits)
dovish_hits	integer	Dovish lexicon phrase hits (longest-match-first). (unit: hits)
tone_score	float	100*(H-D)/(H+D); -100 dovish .. +100 hawkish; 0 when no phrase fires. (unit: -100..100)
tone_index	float	(tone_score+100)/2; 0 dovish .. 100 hawkish. (unit: 0..100)
tone_shift	float	Change in tone_score vs the previous decision of the same bank+doc_type; null for the first. (unit: points)
tone_z_8	float	Z-score of tone_score vs trailing 8 decisions of the same bank+doc_type; null with <4 obs. (unit: std)
policy_action	string	Parsed policy action: hold \| hike \| cut; null when unparseable.
target_rate_pct	float	Announced rate level: BoC single target; FOMC midpoint of target range; null when unparseable. (unit: percent)
matched_hawkish	string	Unique hawkish phrases matched (pipe-joined, audit).
matched_dovish	string	Unique dovish phrases matched (pipe-joined, audit).
as_of	string	Snapshot date (ingest day), ISO date.
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex identity.

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

bank	decision_date	doc_type	doc_title	doc_url	word_count	hawkish_hits	dovish_hits	tone_score	tone_index	tone_shift	tone_z_8	policy_action	target_rate_pct	matched_hawkish	matched_dovish	as_of	row_hash
BoC	2021-01-20	press_release	Bank of Canada will hold current level of policy rate until inflation objective is achieved, continues quantitative easing	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/01/fad-press-release-2021-01-20/	683	0	3	-100	0	—	—	hold	0.25	—	excess supply\|slack\|weakness	2026-09-27	4a5c0c2d9c4a559d
BoC	2021-03-10	press_release	Bank of Canada will hold current level of policy rate until inflation objective is sustainably achieved, continues quantitative easing	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/03/fad-press-release-2021-03-10/	644	1	5	-66.67	16.66	33.33	—	hold	0.25	stronger than expected	accommodative\|contraction\|downside risk\|slack	2026-09-27	5c07d76492c97f70
BoC	2021-04-21	press_release	Bank of Canada will hold current level of policy rate until inflation objective is sustainably achieved, adjusts quantitative easing program	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/04/fad-press-release-2021-04-21/	865	2	5	-42.86	28.57	23.81	—	hold	0.25	robust	contraction\|slack	2026-09-27	e6407e73314b07af
BoC	2021-06-09	press_release	Bank of Canada will hold current level of policy rate until inflation objective is sustainably achieved, continues quantitative easing	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/06/fad-press-release-2021-06-09/	641	2	2	0	50	42.86	1.25	hold	0.25	robust\|stronger than expected	accommodative\|slack	2026-09-27	643481b8a56caf3d
BoC	2021-07-14	press_release	Bank of Canada maintains policy rate and forward guidance, adjusts quantitative easing program	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/07/fad-press-release-2021-07-14/	765	0	3	-100	0	-100	-0.9	hold	0.25	—	accommodative\|slack	2026-09-27	75b1c13aec3e039d
BoC	2021-09-08	press_release	Bank of Canada maintains policy rate, continues forward guidance and current pace of quantitative easing	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/09/fad-press-release-2021-09-08/	520	0	6	-100	0	0	-0.78	hold	0.25	—	accommodative\|contracted\|contraction\|eased\|slack	2026-09-27	4d9e72855a07fc02
BoC	2021-10-27	press_release	Bank of Canada maintains policy rate and forward guidance, ends quantitative easing	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/10/fad-press-release-2021-10-27/	692	2	3	-20	40	80	1	hold	0.25	persistent\|robust	accommodative\|slack	2026-09-27	a8b9cfed5827641f
BoC	2021-12-08	press_release	Bank of Canada maintains policy rate and forward guidance	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/12/fad-press-release-2021-12-08/	573	3	3	0	50	20	1.22	hold	0.25	persistent\|picked up\|tightening	accommodative\|eased\|slack	2026-09-27	2cb879dfce85942b
BoC	2022-01-26	press_release	Bank of Canada maintains policy rate, removes exceptional forward guidance	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2022/01/fad-press-release-2022-01-26/	672	6	5	9.09	54.55	9.09	1.1	hold	0.25	moved up\|persistent\|robust\|stronger than expected\|tightened	accommodative\|slack\|weakness	2026-09-27	0ab40f3620801835
BoC	2022-03-02	press_release	Bank of Canada increases policy interest rate	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2022/03/fad-press-release-2022-03-02/	585	4	2	33.33	66.66	24.24	1.22	hike	0.5	persistently\|picked up\|robust\|tightening	eased\|slack	2026-09-27	929b587ec81ea928

Profiled Sep 27, 2026 from snapshot 20260927T225603Z-e2a13996b2f5

Measured

Completeness: 99.5%
Rows: 137
Columns: 18
Columns with gaps: 2

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
bankvarchar	0%	2	—	FOMC91 BoC46
decision_datevarchar	0%	86	—	2022-01-263 2025-01-293 2025-07-303
doc_typevarchar	0%	3	—	press_release46 statement46 minutes45
doc_titlevarchar	0%	27	—	Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement46 Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee45 Bank of Canada maintains policy rate, continues quantitative tightening8
doc_urlvarchar	0%	124	—	https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/01/fad-press-release-2021-01-20/1 https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/03/fad-press-release-2021-03-10/1 https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/04/fad-press-release-2021-04-21/1
word_countbigint	0%	120	152 → 13,026median 629	4 outside 1st–99th percentile
hawkish_hitsbigint	0%	34	0 → 57median 3	2 outside 1st–99th percentile
dovish_hitsbigint	0%	27	0 → 33median 3	1 outside 1st–99th percentile
tone_scoredouble	0%	53	-100 → 100median 0
tone_indexdouble	0%	71	0 → 100median 50
tone_shiftdouble	2.2%	83	-110 → 200median 0	2 outside 1st–99th percentile
tone_z_8double	7.3%	95	-2.43 → 2.47median 0.35	3 outside 1st–99th percentile
policy_actionvarchar	0%	3	—	hold83 hike33 cut21
target_rate_pctdouble	0%	29	0.125 → 5.38median 3.63
matched_hawkishvarchar	0%	81	—	18 moved up9 persistently7
matched_dovishvarchar	0%	84	—	27 eased12 accommodative8
as_ofvarchar	0%	1	—	2026-09-27137
row_hashvarchar	0%	129	—	004ac827abc607ad1 005850170b823f181 07e89dae4f53e9411

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/na_central_bank_tone/central_bank_tone_per_decision" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/na_central_bank_tone/central_bank_tone_per_decision").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/na_central_bank_tone/central_bank_tone_per_decision

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

Cite this snapshot

Pinned to snapshot 20260927T225603Z-e2a13996b2f5 and its content hash, so readers get exactly the data you used.

APA

U.S. Federal Reserve (FOMC) + Bank of Canada (Governing Council). (2026). North America central-bank policy tone (per decision) [Data set, snapshot 20260927T225603Z-e2a13996b2f5, sha256 e2a13996b2f5]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-28, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/na_central_bank_tone/central_bank_tone_per_decision?snapshot=20260927T225603Z-e2a13996b2f5

BibTeX

@misc{dz_na_central_bank_tone_central_bank_tone_p_e2a13996,
  title        = {{North America central-bank policy tone (per decision)}},
  author       = {{U.S. Federal Reserve (FOMC) + Bank of Canada (Governing Council)}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/na_central_bank_tone/central_bank_tone_per_decision?snapshot=20260927T225603Z-e2a13996b2f5}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260927T225603Z-e2a13996b2f5, sha256 e2a13996b2f53fe930cf85f032d6f2c518a15f182403da3502c41cc3aa2d7ed0; accessed 2026-09-28}
}

Embed a table or a chart

Paste this into any page. The embed is pinned to the same snapshot, follows the reader's light or dark setting, and always shows the source, license and a link back.

Type

X axis

Value

Aggregate

Theme

HTML

<iframe src="https://datazimuts.com/embed/chart?dataset=na_central_bank_tone%2Fcentral_bank_tone_per_decision&lang=en&theme=auto&snapshot=20260927T225603Z-e2a13996b2f5&x=decision_date&y=word_count&agg=avg" title="North America central-bank policy tone (per decision)" width="100%" height="380" style="border:0" loading="lazy"></iframe>

North America central-bank policy tone (per decision)

Follow this dataset

Cite this snapshot

Embed a table or a chart

Use your own AI key