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Towards a Best Practice of Modeling Unit of Measure and Related Statistical Metadata

Data and metadata exchange between organizations requires a common language for describing structure and content of statistical data and metadata. The SDMX consortium develops content oriented guidelines (COG) recommending harmonized cross-domain concepts and terminology to increase the efficiency o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grossmann, Wilfried
Other Authors: Denk, Michaela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2011
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Payment Systems
Public Expenditure Review
Econometric And Statistical Methods: Special Topics: Other
Public Finance & Taxation
Regimes
Deflation
Economic Statistics
Methodology For Collecting, Estimating, And Organizing Macroeconomic Data
Money
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: General
Foreign Exchange
Standards
Currencies
Macroeconomics
Economic And Financial Statistics
Econometrics & Economic Statistics
Government And The Monetary System
Inflation
Data Access
Monetary Economics
Computer Programs: Other
Currency
Data Collection And Data Estimation Methodology
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement And Data)
Expenditure
Price Level
Expenditures, Public
Monetary Systems
Prices
Computer Programs: General
Exchange Rates
Statistics
Public Finance
Money And Monetary Policy
Price Adjustments
United States
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:Data and metadata exchange between organizations requires a common language for describing structure and content of statistical data and metadata. The SDMX consortium develops content oriented guidelines (COG) recommending harmonized cross-domain concepts and terminology to increase the efficiency of (meta-) data exchange. A recent challenge is a recommended code list for the unit of measure. Based on examples from SDMX sponsor organizations this paper analyses the diversity of "unit of measure" as used in practice, including potential breakdowns and interdependencies of the respective meta-information that go beyond the current SDMX COG recommendations and possible value domains for the identified components
Physical Description:22 pages
ISBN:9781455271474

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