Example 10.12: IMF Direction of Trade Statistics

The DATASOURCE Procedure

Example 10.12: IMF Direction of Trade Statistics

This example illustrates how to extract data from a Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) data file. The DOTS data files contain only two series, EXPORTS and IMPORTS, for various sets of countries. The foreign trade figures between any two countries can be extracted by specifying their three-digit codes for COUNTRY and PARTNER BY variables. The following statements can then be used to extract quarterly EXPORTS and IMPORTS between the United States of America (COUNTRY='111') and Japan (PARTNER='158').

   filename dotsfile 'host-specific-gfs-file-name' <host-options>;
   proc datasource filetype=imfdotsp infile=dotsfile interval=qtr
                   out=foreign outall=forngvar;
      where country='111' and partner='158';
   run;

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