Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

On October 28, 2024, the Data Download Program was updated to include SCOOS question 41.E starting with the September 2024 survey. The question had been inadvertently omitted from the DDP.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) program are working together to expand options for finding, accessing, and visualizing data from the Board's Data Download Program (DDP) in FRED. Learn more about the DDP and FRED partnership.

SCOOS data is now available on the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis FRED platform as well as the Federal Reserve Board DDP. Visit the SCOOS landing page on FRED at the SCOOS landing page on FRED at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release?rid=571.

Beginning this quarter, the SCOOS data release includes the summary measures plotted in the exhibits of the SCOOS report. These timeseries are prefixed with the EXH question group identifier.

On March 26, 2023, the Federal Reserve will make minor changes to the format of all XML files released through the Data Download Program (DDP). The changes include

The Federal Reserve Board is conducting an online survey to collect data on online usage and consumption preferences of users of the Board's Data Download Program (DDP) website.

Visit our website to take the survey: https://boardofgovernors.gov1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1I95KuU02McZSwS

The Federal Reserve Board is conducting focus groups to collect data on online usage and consumption preferences of users of the Board's Data Download Program (DDP) website.

Visit our Contact Us page, enter your information, and write "volunteer" in the comment box to sign up: https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/ContactUs/feedback.aspx?refurl=/ddpfeedback/

The data file erroneously reported that zero respondents answered Remained Basically Unchanged for all components of question 79 in the September 2021 survey. This reporting error was corrected on March 24, 2022.

The question text in Question 44 has been updated to reflect the text seen by respondents. No adjustments to the data responses were necessary.

SCOOS data through Q1 2020 is now available in the Data Download Program. A previous version of the DDP was incomplete.

Current and historical Senior Credit Officer Opinion Survey (SCOOS) data are available for download in machine-readable format. The downloadable data include aggregate responses for the survey's core questions dating back to the second quarter of 2010. The dataset will be updated at a quarterly frequency. Aggregate responses to non-repeating special questions and summaries of survey results are available at our primary site: https://www.federalreserve.gov/data/scoos.htm.

The most recent quarter of the Senior Credit Officer Opinion Survey (SCOOS) data, 2018 Q2, are not currently available for download in machine-readable format. However, the entire dataset is available for review at our primary site: https://federalreserve.gov/data/scoos.htm. The 2018 Q2 data will be available for download in the coming weeks.

The SCOOS macro-level data is now available through DDP and contains the entire history of the SCOOS general questions.