seasonal_factors

Fetch a published BLS Producer Price Index seasonal-factor table.

Examples

from openbb import obb
# FD-ID aggregation seasonal factors for the previous five years.
obb.bls.ppi.seasonal_factors(provider='bls', category='fd_id')
# Current-year commodity forecast seasonal factors.
obb.bls.ppi.seasonal_factors(provider='bls', category='forecast')

Parameters

• standard
• bls

category: str | None
Default: fd_id
Which BLS PPI Seasonal Factor Table to fetch.

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Returns

results: BlsPpiSeasonalFactors

Serializable results.

provider: str | None

Provider name.

warnings: Optional[list[Warning_]]

List of warnings.

chart: Optional[Chart]

Chart object.

extra: dict[str, Any]

Extra info.

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Data

• standard
• bls

date: date | str
First day of the calendar month the seasonal factor applies to.

code: str
BLS PPI series code with the WPS prefix preserved.

label: str | None
Human-readable series title as published by BLS.

seasonal_factor: float | None
BLS-published multiplicative seasonal factor where 100.000 means no seasonality.

table_id: str
Source BLS table id.

table_name: str
Full BLS table title.