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FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy

FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy MCP Connector for Claude

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Navigate the complete FRED taxonomy: from Money & Banking to Employment to Prices — drill down through categories, discover thousands of series organized by topic, and filter by tags and frequency.

4 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Explore FRED like a library. The Categories server lets your AI agent navigate the entire FRED taxonomy tree — from the root down to individual series.

What you can do

  • Browse the Tree — Start from root (category 0) and drill into 8 top-level domains
  • Discover Series — Find all series within any category, sorted by popularity
  • Tag Filtering — Get tags for any category to understand available dimensions

Top-Level Categories

32991 Money, Banking & Finance · 10 Population & Employment · 32992 National Accounts · 1 Production & Business · 32455 Prices · 32263 International · 33060 Academic Data

Who is this for?

Data explorers, researchers discovering what data FRED has, and AI agents that need structured navigation of economic indicators.

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4 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_category

Root category is 0. Major categories: 32991 (Money, Banking, & Finance), 10 (Population, Employment, & Labor Markets), 32992 (National Accounts), 1 (Production & Business Activity), 32455 (Prices). Get a FRED category by ID

get_category_children

Start from root (0) to explore all top-level categories, then drill down. This is the primary way to discover what data FRED has. Get child categories of a FRED category

get_category_series

Use with category IDs discovered via get_category_children. Supports filtering by frequency, units, and tags. Get series within a FRED category

get_category_tags

Useful for understanding what data dimensions are available and for filtering series. Get tags for a FRED category

See how to talk to your AI agent using FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy.

What are the main categories of economic data in FRED?

🗂️ **FRED Root Categories** 1. Money, Banking & Finance (32991) 2. Population, Employment & Labor (10) 3. National Accounts (GDP) (32992) 4. Production & Business Activity (1) 5. Prices (32455) 6. International Data (32263) 7. U.S. Regional Data (70) 8. Academic Data (33060)

What inflation-related series are available?

📈 **Prices Category (32455) — Top Inflation Series** - CPIAUCSL — Consumer Price Index (All Urban) - CPILFESL — Core CPI (Ex Food & Energy) - PCEPI — PCE Price Index - T10YIE — 10-Year Breakeven Inflation - MICH — U. Michigan Inflation Expectations 3,000+ price-related series available in this category.

Navigate to the interest rates subcategory

🏦 **Interest Rates → Children** - Treasury Constant Maturity (22) - LIBOR Rates (33003) - Federal Funds (118) - Prime Rate (120) - Swap Rates (33023) Drill into any to see individual series.

FRED uses a hierarchical tree of categories. The root (ID 0) branches into 8 domains like Money & Banking, Employment, and Prices. Each domain subdivides into hundreds of subcategories, each containing related series. Start from root and drill down to discover data.

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