[Repec-data] A first proposal

[Christopher Baum]

That's not what I read into Christian's statement

> My suggestion would be to have in such a case a "series" (in the sense 
> of a collection) OECD MEI, and have each individual "time series" French 
> GDP, French Inflation etc indexed with a separate template. 


By the way it gets worse, as in many databases the same series is listed multiple times at different timeseries frequencies. I am currently using the daily 5-year swap rate from FRED; that series has a different acronym (and thus looks like a different series) than the weekly, monthly, quarterly... measure of the same economic concept. 

Kit

On Aug 29, 2013, at 3:06 PM, "David K. Levine" <david at dklevine.com>
 wrote:

> I believe the proposal was one template per n-dimensional array.
> 
> ----- On 8/29/2013 11:06 am repec-data at lists.ope wrote -----
> 
> Christian,
> 
> This does not make sense to me: the notion of creating one template per time series in a dataset. For instance:
> 
>> Federal Reserve Economic Data
>> 
>> Download, graph, and track 
>> 148,000 US and international time series from 59 sources.
> 
> 
> Would you suggest that if we include the FRED database, we should have 148,000 templates describing its contents?
> 
> Thanks
> Kit
> 
> On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:41 PM, 'Christian Zimmermann' <zimmermann at stlouisfed.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Let me throw in an example. Take the OECD Main Economic Indicators. You can structure them in various ways:
>> 
>> OECD MEI
>> -> GDP
>> --> France
>> --> Germ
> 
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