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## BIS statistics API — same SDMX 2.1 REST shape as ECB, incompatible `format` vocabulary

```
GET https://stats.bis.org/api/v1/data/BIS,WS_CBPOL,1.0/all?lastNObservations=3&format=jsondata
```
→ HTTP **406**, `content-type: application/xml`, body:
```xml
<message:Error><message:ErrorMessage code="406"><com:Text>Unsupported format: jsondata</com:Text>
</message:ErrorMessage></message:Error>
```
`format=jsondata` is exactly the value that works on the ECB's SDMX 2.1 REST API (see the `ecb-
dataportal` record in this lane) — on BIS's implementation of the same SDMX 2.1 REST standard it is
flatly rejected. (This lane did not find the JSON-format value BIS does accept in the time available;
recorded as the gap it is.)

```
GET https://stats.bis.org/api/v1/data/BIS,WS_CBPOL,1.0/all?lastNObservations=3&format=csv
```
→ HTTP 200, `content-type: text/csv;charset=UTF-8`, works cleanly, keyless, no key or token anywhere —
central bank policy-rate series back to 1976 for some series, with a 15-column header
(`FREQ,REF_AREA,UNIT_MEASURE,...,OBS_VALUE,OBS_STATUS,OBS_CONF,OBS_PRE_BREAK`).

Bad dataflow id, valid format:
```
GET https://stats.bis.org/api/v1/data/BIS,NOTAFLOW,1.0/all?format=csv
```
→ HTTP **404**, but the body is **XML**, not CSV: `<message:ErrorMessage code="100"><com:Text>No
Dataflow exists for query : ... Maintainable Id: NOTAFLOW ...</com:Text></message:ErrorMessage>`. The
`format` query param only controls the shape of a *successful* response; every error response on this
API is XML regardless of what format was requested — the inverse of what a client reading only the
200-path behavior would assume.

How observed: 2026-10-05 ~07:36Z, curl 8.x with a descriptive contact User-Agent, from this machine.

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