Freddie Mac yesterday announced that it is making available loan-level credit performance data on a portion of the fully amortizing 30-year fixed-rate single-family mortgages the company purchased over the past 13 years, at the direction of its regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

This is part of a larger effort highlighted in the 2013 conservatorship scorecard, announced by FHFA earlier this month. The historical data will help to increase credit performance to investors, Freddie Mac said in a statement.

The dataset only contains loan-level credit performance data on approximately 15.7 million fully amortizing, fixed-rate, 30-year fixed-rate single-family mortgages, and excludes data on adjustable rate mortgages, balloon mortgages, initial interest mortgages, government-insured mortgages, relief refinancing mortgages including the HARP program, and other affordable or non-standard mortgages.

The Single-Family Loan-Level Dataset and FAQs are accessible by visiting the Economics & Housing Research page on Freddiemac.com at www.freddiemac.com/news/finance/sf_loanlevel_dataset.html.