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The DATASOURCE Procedure

IMF Data Files

The International Monetary Fund’s Economic Information System (EIS) offers subscriptions for their International Financial Statistics (IFS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), Balance of Payment Statistics (BOPS), and Government Finance Statistics (GFS) databases. The first three contain annual, quarterly, and monthly data, while the GFS file has only annual data.

PROC DATASOURCE supports only the packed format IMF data.

FILETYPE=IMFIFSP–International Financial Statistics, Packed Format

The IFS data files contain over 23,000 time series including interest and exchange rates, national income and product accounts, price and production indexes, money and banking, export commodity prices, and balance of payments for nearly 200 countries and regional aggregates.

Table 11.27 FILETYPE=IMFIFSP–International Financial Statistics Format

Metadata Field Types

Metadata Fields

Metadata Labels

Data Files

Database is stored in a single file.

INTERVAL=

YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH

BY Variables

COUNTRY

Country Code (character, three digits)

 

CSC

Control Source Code (character)

 

PARTNER

Partner Country Code (character, three digits)

 

VERSION

Version Code (character)

Sorting Order

BY COUNTRY CSC PARTNER VERSION

Series Variables

Series variable names are the same as series codes reported in IMF Documentation prefixed by F for data and F_F for footnote indicators.

Default KEEP List

By default all the footnote indicators will be dropped.

FILETYPE=IMFDOTSP–Direction of Trade Statistics, Packed Format

The DOTS files contain time series on the distribution of exports and imports for about 160 countries and country groups by partner country and areas.

Table 11.28 FILETYPE=IMFDOTSP–Direction of Trade Statistics Format

Metadata Field Types

Metadata Fields

Metadata Labels

Data Files

Database is stored in a single file.

INTERVAL=

YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH

BY Variables

COUNTRY

Country Code (character, three digits)

 

CSC

Control Source Code (character)

 

PARTNER

Partner Country Code (character, three digits)

 

VERSION

Version Code (character)

Sorting Order

BY COUNTRY CSC PARTNER VERSION

Series Variables

Series variable names are the same as series codes reported in IMF Documentation prefixed by D for data and F_D for footnote indicators.

Default KEEP List

By default all the footnote indicators will be dropped.

FILETYPE=IMFBOPSP–Balance of Payment Statistics, Packed Format

The BOPS data files contain approximately 43,000 time series on balance of payments for about 120 countries.

Table 11.29 FILETYPE=IMFBOPSP–Balance of Payment Statistics Format

Metadata Field Types

Metadata Fields

Metadata Labels

Data Files

Database is stored in a single file.

INTERVAL=

YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH

BY Variables

COUNTRY

Country Code (character, three digits)

 

CSC

Control Source Code (character)

 

PARTNER

Partner Country Code (character, three digits)

 

VERSION

Version Code (character)

Sorting Order

BY COUNTRY CSC PARTNER VERSION

Series Variables

Series variable names are the same as series codes reported in IMF Documentation prefixed by B for data and F_B for footnote indicators.

Default KEEP List

By default all the footnote indicators will be dropped.

FILETYPE=IMFGFSP–Government Finance Statistics, Packed Format

The GFS data files encompass approximately 28,000 time series that give a detailed picture of federal government revenue, grants, expenditures, lending minus repayment financing and debt, and summary data of state and local governments, covering 128 countries.

Table 11.30 FILETYPE=IMFGFSP–Government Finance Statistics Format

Metadata Field Types

Metadata Fields

Metadata Labels

Data Files

Database is stored in a single file.

INTERVAL=

YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH

BY Variables

COUNTRY

Country Code (character, three digits)

 

CSC

Control Source Code (character)

 

PARTNER

Partner Country Code (character, three digits)

 

VERSION

Version Code (character)

Sorting Order

BY COUNTRY CSC PARTNER VERSION

Series Variables

Series variable names are the same as series codes reported in IMF Documentation prefixed by G for data and F_G for footnote indicators.

Default KEEP List

By default all the footnote indicators will be dropped.

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