OECD business confidence indicator
Monthly OECD standardised business confidence indicator (measure BCICP), amplitude adjusted, long term average = 100, seasonally adjusted, for OECD members, key partners and major aggregates.
Source: OECD Composite Leading Indicators27,818 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026
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Quality
97
Attribution
OECD
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | Observation month (the TIME_PERIOD column of the OECD SDMX-CSV response, 'YYYY-MM'), stored as the first day of the month. |
| series_id | string | SDMX series key (<REF_AREA>.<variant>), e.g. 'USA.CLI_AA': the unique identifier of the series in the OECD Composite Leading Indicators dataflow. |
| series_label | string | Economy name from the OECD CL_AREA codelist, e.g. 'United States'. |
| value | float | Business confidence indicator (OECD CLI measure BCICP), amplitude adjusted, long term average = 100, seasonally adjusted (ADJUSTMENT=AA, TRANSFORMATION=IX). |
Sample rows
| date | series_id | series_label | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-02-01 | A5M.BCI | Major five Asia economies | 100.0683 |
| 2000-03-01 | A5M.BCI | Major five Asia economies | 100.1094 |
| 2000-04-01 | A5M.BCI | Major five Asia economies | 100.1553 |
| 2000-05-01 | A5M.BCI | Major five Asia economies | 100.3595 |
| 2000-06-01 | A5M.BCI | Major five Asia economies | 100.647 |
Download sample data
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Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/oecd_cli/business_confidence_indicator_monthly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/oecd_cli/business_confidence_indicator_monthly").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/oecd_cli/business_confidence_indicator_monthly
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.