SDMX Data

[Ibrahim Khatatbeh]

I tried to download data through SDMX database in STATA, but the code which is generated through sdmxHelp doesn't work properly.

code example (getTimeSeries ECB FM/A.._T.4F.BC.A "" "")

any advice would be appreciated

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist.

I'm sorry to say that you will likely find only a small number of users of Stata who have the background that allows them to address your question.

Please review the Statalist FAQ linked to from the top of the page, as well as from the Advice on Posting link on the page you used to create your post. Note especially sections 9-12 on how to best pose your question.

The more you help others understand your problem, the more likely others are to be able to help you solve your problem.

Specifically, many readers will have no idea what the SDMX database is, and even fewer will know what sdmxHelp is. And writing that something "doesn't work properly" is like telling your mechanic your automobile "don't run well" - a weak start at describing the problem you need help solving.

A search of the web for sdmxhelp suggests that sdmxHelp is a user-written extension to Stata distributed through github at https://github.com/amattioc/SDMX

There are two user-written Stata packages that facilitate access to SDMX data (whatever it is), both of which are distributed through the Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive (provided by http://www.repec.org) and which can easily be discovered, downloaded and added to your Stata installation by Stata itself. Because of this, I expect the expertise in SDMX data on Statalist will be focused on those packages. Perhaps you would do better to adopt one of them. I found them as the first two packages described in the output of Stata's

search SDMX

command.

A quick review of the help files suggests that the getdata package may be the most helpful; it provides a front-end to the same Java code used by sdmxHelp. But I'm in over my head here. Click on its link in the output of the search command for more information and installation instructions.

Note also that Stata, rather than STATA, is the standard spelling used by Statacorp in all its written materials and the recommended spelling on Statalist, although the user-written documentation for getdata uses the non-standard spelling.

[Ibrahim Khatatbeh]

many thanks for your help