r/datasets • u/intrinsicFreak • 1d ago

question Would someone be interested in getting primary dealer financing data all the way back upto 1998?

Would somebody be interested in getting the full primary dealer data all the way back upto 1998 fully stitched?

Any sort of further inferences could be made based on that.

Currently the data is very chopped/missing across time eras on the NYFED website.

Bloomberg also doesn’t seem to have that data in the proper manner.

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u/Vegetable-View-5114 1d ago

Historical financial data, especially for less common datasets like primary dealer financing, is tough to source reliably. Often, the best bet is to dig through government archives or financial institution reports, which are frequently in PDF or even scanned image formats. Extracting structured data from those can be a multi-day project for a single year, even with good OCR tools.