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The DATASOURCE Procedure

IMF Data Files

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

IMF data tapes are available for IBM mainframe systems (EBCDIC character coding) in both a "packed" and an "unpacked" format. PROC DATASOURCE supports only the "packed" format at this time.

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.

   
Data FilesDatabase is stored in a single file.
INTERVAL=YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH
BY variablesCOUNTRYCountry Code (character, three-digits)
 CSCControl Source Code (character)
 PARTNERPartner Country Code (character, three-digits)
 VERSIONVersion Code (character)
Sorting OrderBY COUNTRY CSC PARTNER VERSION
Series VariablesSeries 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 ListBy 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.

   
Data FilesDatabase is stored in a single file.
INTERVAL=YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH
BY variablesCOUNTRYCountry Code (character, three-digits)
 CSCControl Source Code (character)
 PARTNERPartner Country Code (character, three-digits)
 VERSIONVersion Code (character)
Sorting OrderBY COUNTRY CSC PARTNER VERSION
Series VariablesSeries 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 ListBy 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.

   
Data FilesDatabase is stored in a single file.
INTERVAL=YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH
BY variablesCOUNTRYCountry Code (character, three-digits)
 CSCControl Source Code (character)
 PARTNERPartner Country Code (character, three-digits)
 VERSIONVersion Code (character)
Sorting OrderBY COUNTRY CSC PARTNER VERSION
Series VariablesSeries 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 ListBy 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.

   
Data FilesDatabase is stored in a single file.
INTERVAL=YEAR (default), QUARTER, MONTH
BY variablesCOUNTRYCountry Code (character, three-digits)
 CSCControl Source Code (character)
 PARTNERPartner Country Code (character, three-digits)
 VERSIONVersion Code (character)
Sorting OrderBY COUNTRY CSC PARTNER VERSION
Series VariablesSeries 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 ListBy default all the footnote indicators will be dropped.

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