SDMX for International trade

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SDMX for International trade creating a data
sharing environment
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OECDs SDMX work

• Promoting SDMX as the world standard
• Trying to generalise formats
• away from stove-pipes
• Using SDMX in and out of OECD.Stat
• SDMX web service
• ComTrade with UNSD
• NAWWE
• Exchange with IMF and other IOs
• Country pilots
• Education ?

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ComTrade

• Mirroring trade databases of UNSD and OECD
• A production application, based on SDMX data
  exchange format and web services
• SDMX cross-sectional format V1.0
• Rapid - exchange can be compressed by web service
• Upload/synchronise with SQL database - no
  specialised SDMX knowledge necessary for
  end-users
• SDMX is becoming just a part of the plumbing

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DES - Data Exchange
Synchronisation
Disseminate
Disseminate
Working
Working
Working
Working
Database
Dissemination
Dissemination
Database
Database
Dissemination
Dissemination
Database
Database
Database
Database
Database
Process
Process
Member country
Member country
Data Access
Data capture
Data capture
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Perspective

• Countries use same standard message as UN and
  OECD
• Can be generated from database
• Countries can post data on web site (pull)
• - or they can send it (push)

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