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Sector Flow of Funds Methodology

This page publishes the exact 20-series cut behind /flows/sector-balance-sheets. It does not expose a browser for the full Z.1 series estate. The subset is quarterly, grouped around 4 major sectors, and limited to series whose official table and line labels could be sourced directly from the Federal Reserve's published HTML tables.

Release vintage. Federal Reserve Board, Financial Accounts of the United States (Z.1): June 11, 2026 (2026:Q1 Z.1 release). Selected series coverage in the parquet runs from 1952-03-31 to 2026-03-31. The official tables publish billions of dollars, while the local parquet stores millions. The page divides the local values by 1,000,000 to display trillions, equivalent to dividing the official billions by 1,000.
Selection rule. Quarterly only, explicit sector subset only, covering households and nonprofit organizations, nonfinancial corporate business, the federal government, and the rest of the world. A series was kept only if its official Z.1 table and line label could be sourced from the Federal Reserve's published HTML tables; any unsourced mnemonic was dropped.
SectorMnemonicOfficial labelZ.1 tableLinePage unit
Households and nonprofit organizationsFA155000005.QHouseholds and nonprofit organizations; net lending (+) or net borrowing (-)S1M.tLine 18: Net lending (+) or net borrowing (-)$T SAAR
FL152000005.QHouseholds and nonprofit organizations; assetsS1M.bLine 1: Assets$T
FL154190005.QHouseholds and nonprofit organizations; liabilitiesS1M.bLine 30: Liabilities$T
FL152090005.QHouseholds and nonprofit organizations; net worth (assets minus liabilities)S1M.bLine 40: Net worth (assets minus liabilities)$T
LM155035005.QHouseholds and nonprofit organizations; real estateS1M.bLine 3: Real estate$T
Nonfinancial corporate businessFA105000005.QNonfinancial corporate business; net lending (+) or net borrowing (-)S11.1.tLine 14: Net lending (+) or net borrowing (-)$T SAAR
FL102000005.QNonfinancial corporate business; assetsS11.1.bLine 1: Assets$T
FL104190005.QNonfinancial corporate business; liabilitiesS11.1.bLine 30: Liabilities$T
FL102090005.QNonfinancial corporate business; net worth (assets minus liabilities)S11.1.bLine 46: Net worth (assets minus liabilities)$T
FL104122005.QNonfinancial corporate business; debt securitiesS11.1.bLine 31: Debt securities$T
Federal governmentFA315000005.QFederal government; net lending (+) or net borrowing (-)S1311.tLine 24: Net lending (+) or net borrowing (-)$T SAAR
FL314090005.QFederal government; total financial assetsS1311.sLine 1: Total financial assets$T
FL314190005.QFederal government; total liabilitiesS1311.sLine 18: Total liabilities$T
FL313161105.QFederal government; Treasury securitiesS1311.sLine 23: Treasury securities$T
FL313066220.QFederal government; consumer creditS1311.sLine 11: Consumer credit$T
Rest of the worldFA265000005.QRest of the world; net lending (+) or net borrowing (-)S2.tLine 13: Net lending (+) or net borrowing (-)$T SAAR
FL264090005.QRest of the world; total financial assetsS2.sLine 1: Total financial assets$T
FL264190005.QRest of the world; total liabilitiesS2.sLine 28: Total liabilities$T
LM263061105.QRest of the world; Treasury securitiesS2.sLine 8: Treasury securities$T
LM263064105.QRest of the world; U.S. corporate equitiesS2.sLine 16: U.S. corporate equities$T

Interpretation notes

The household and nonfinancial-corporate balance-sheet figures come from the Z.1 balance-sheet tables, which include nonfinancial assets and net worth. The federal-government and rest-of-world figures come from the sector levels tables, which are financial balance sheets instead. That is why the page shows net worth for households and nonfinancial corporates, but not for the federal government or the rest of the world.

Quarterly flow series in the Z.1 are seasonally adjusted annual rates; quarterly level series are end-of-period amounts outstanding. They are shown in separate figures on the page so flow units and level units are never plotted on the same line.