IMFOECD SDMX Exchange

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IMF-OECD SDMX Exchange

• Short term
• Monthly exchange of single dataset in each
  direction
• OECD Main Economic Indicators data
• Mechanism SDMX Web Service (http//stats.oecd.o
  rg/OECDStatWS_SDMX/test_sdmx.aspx)
• Would replace existing e-mail receipt of CSV file
• IMF Exchange Rates data from International
  Financial Statistics
• Initial Mechanism posting of SDMX file under
  http//sdmx.imf.org/oecd/
• First attempt at data structure definition
  included a codelist based simply on the time
  series key and descriptor and uses IMF country
  codes (e.g. USA 111)
• New data structure definition based on 3
  character ISO country codes and subcode (position
  4-10 of time series key) with common descriptor
  across countries
• Data structure Definition may be refined further.
• Will be generated and posted as part of the
  CD-ROM publication process starting with April
  2006 publication

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IMF-OECD SDMX Exchange

• Medium Term
• Extend to other published datasets
• We would want the OECD to include all datasets
  IMF currently receives
• Economic Outlook,
• Structural Analysis Database,
• Annual and quarterly National accounts,
• Quarterly Labor Force statistics
• OECD to determine additional datsets they would
  want from IMF.
• Add notification mechanism based on SDMX
  registryAbility to extract just the change from
  the previous publication

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IMF-OECD SDMX Exchange

• Long term
• IMF SDMX web service fed by an IMF Economic Data
  Warehouse
• Direct End User access to both organizations
  SDMX web services