--- title: Confidential datasets in finance & economics research description: >- Confidential supervisory, administrative, and single-counterparty microdata cited in the papers we distill: what the collection is and the gotchas, with no provenance badge since there is no access path that can be run here. sidebar: label: Overview order: 0 --- Neither [free](/wiki/datasets/) nor [commercially licensed](/wiki/commercial/). Confidential supervisory, administrative-registry, individual-level, or single private-counterparty microdata, reachable only through a qualifying affiliation or an approved restricted-data arrangement inside a secure environment. Unlike the commercial tier, this data is not purchasable off the shelf at any price. These pages document what the collection is and the gotchas, but carry **no provenance badge**: there is no access path we can run here. | Dataset | What it is | Page | |---|---|---| | **FR Y-14Q** | Fed stress-test bank data (loan-level corporate/CRE) | [FR Y-14Q](/wiki/confidential/fr-y14q/) | | **FHA** | FHA single-family loan-level (restricted; public aggregates separate) | [FHA](/wiki/confidential/fha/) | | **FR 2052a** | Bank liquidity flows by counterparty, product, maturity | [FR 2052a](/wiki/confidential/fr-2052a/) | | **FR 2004C** | Weekly primary-dealer positions and financing (dealer-level) | [FR 2004C](/wiki/confidential/fr2004c/) | | **FR 2420** | Transaction-level money-market rates (FF, ED, CD) | [FR 2420](/wiki/confidential/fr2420/) | | **FR 2644** | Weekly bank balance sheet (bank-level; H.8 basis) | [FR 2644](/wiki/confidential/fr2644/) | | **Fed funds (confidential)** | Transaction-level federal funds borrowing/lending | [Fed funds](/wiki/confidential/fed-funds-confidential/) | | **Discount window (confidential)** | Loan-level Fed discount window borrowing | [Discount window](/wiki/confidential/discount-window-confidential/) | | **Fedwire** | Payment-level interbank transfers (RTGS) | [Fedwire](/wiki/confidential/fedwire/) | | **NIC (Fed)** | CAMELS ratings (confidential) + BHC structure (public) | [NIC](/wiki/confidential/nic-fed/) | | **STBL (Fed)** | Loan-level C&I terms and internal risk ratings (risk rating 1997 on; survey ended 2017) | [STBL](/wiki/confidential/stbl-fed/) | | **MCR (NMLS)** | Company-level nonbank mortgage lender reports | [MCR](/wiki/confidential/mcr-nmls/) | | **INSEE DADS** | French matched employer-employee data (via CASD) | [INSEE DADS](/wiki/confidential/insee-dads/) | | **INSEE LIFI** | French inter-firm ownership / business-group links (via CASD) | [INSEE LIFI](/wiki/confidential/insee-lifi/) | | **INSEE tax files** | French firm balance sheets and income statements (via CASD) | [INSEE tax files](/wiki/confidential/insee-tax-files/) | | **LISA (Sweden)** | Swedish individual-level population register (via SCB) | [LISA](/wiki/confidential/lisa-sweden/) | | **FEK (Sweden)** | Swedish firm structural business statistics (via SCB) | [FEK](/wiki/confidential/fek-sweden/) | | **Statistics Norway** | Norwegian income/wealth registers (aggregates public; microdata restricted) | [Statistics Norway](/wiki/confidential/statistics-norway/) | | **VPS (Norway)** | Complete individual securities holdings (Norwegian CSD) | [VPS](/wiki/confidential/vps-norway/) | | **IEB (Germany)** | German administrative employment biographies (via IAB FDZ) | [IEB](/wiki/confidential/ieb-germany/) | | **IAB Establishment Panel** | German establishment survey (via IAB FDZ) | [IAB Establishment Panel](/wiki/confidential/iab-establishment-panel/) | | **Italy Credit Register** | Italian firm-bank loans + bank boards (Bank of Italy) | [Italy Credit Register](/wiki/confidential/bank-of-italy-credit-register/) | | **Spain CIR** | Spanish loan-level corporate credit register (Banco de Espana) | [Spain CIR](/wiki/confidential/spain-cir/) | | **FDIC construction loans** | Loan-level construction-loan servicing (single failed bank) | [FDIC construction loans](/wiki/confidential/fdic-construction-loans/) | | **FDIC failed-bank bids** | Bid-level bank-failure resolution records | [FDIC failed-bank bids](/wiki/confidential/fdic-failed-bank/) | | **FDIC supervisory** | Account-level deposits + enforcement actions | [FDIC supervisory](/wiki/confidential/fdic-supervisory/) | | **OSFI (Canada)** | Contract-level mortgages from federally regulated lenders | [OSFI](/wiki/confidential/osfi-canada/) | | **Banorte (Mexico)** | One bank's account panel + a savings field experiment | [Banorte](/wiki/confidential/banorte-experiment/) | | **Online broker (Germany)** | One broker's retail-investor holdings and trades | [Online broker](/wiki/confidential/online-broker/) | | **Bank proprietary (Germany)** | One bank's customer wealth/income/holdings | [Bank proprietary](/wiki/confidential/bank-proprietary/) | | **Bilendi survey (Germany)** | Author-commissioned representative online survey | [Bilendi survey](/wiki/confidential/bilendi-survey/) | | **Indifi (India)** | One FinTech lender's loan applications + payment history | [Indifi](/wiki/confidential/indifi-loan-applications/) | | **China shadow margin** | One platform's off-exchange margin balances (2015) | [China shadow margin](/wiki/confidential/china-shadow-margin/) | | **SLI private meetings** | One asset manager's meeting notes, ratings, trades | [SLI private meetings](/wiki/confidential/sli-private-meetings/) | | **TSP user list** | Which banks used the attacked tech service provider | [TSP user list](/wiki/confidential/tsp-user-list/) | | **401(k) administrative** | One recordkeeper's participant allocations and defaults | [401(k) administrative](/wiki/confidential/401k-admin/) | | **DTCC commercial paper** | Transaction-level CP issuance (issuer, rate, maturity) | [DTCC](/wiki/confidential/dtcc/) | | **FICC GCF repo** | Dealer-level interdealer general-collateral repo | [FICC GCF repo](/wiki/confidential/ficc-gcf-repo/) | | **Equifax credit** | US consumer credit microdata + payroll income verification | [Equifax credit](/wiki/confidential/equifax-credit/) | | **TransUnion (Canada)** | Population-wide Canadian credit-bureau records | [TransUnion](/wiki/confidential/transunion-canada/) |