SDMX for International trade – creating a data sharing environment September 2006

OECD’s 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 ? September 2006

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” September 2006

Member country Member country DES - Data Exchange & Synchronisation Disseminate Disseminate Working Working Working Working Database Dissemination Dissemination Database Dissemination Dissemination Database Database Database Database Database Database Process Process Member country Member country Data Access Data capture: Contributors generally send annual data plain text, Excel or .DBF (Foxpro) files MS Access is used for intermediate storage before loading to SQL Server SQL Server is used for working and dissemination databases Countries generally send H1 or H2 format (can go to 10-digit classification) Correspondance tables/mapping exists to go from one classification to another OECD uses also the ISIC classification (in STI) Data Flow formats: OECD and UNSD databases are kept synchronised through bi-directional data transfers Format is SDMX V1.0 cross-sectional schema format Incoming data is converted in CSV format for loading into destination database Same data format is used for transfer from working to destination database OECD publications: Data for 2005 start arriving in Spring 2006 Publication of data for groups of countries according to availability OECD publishes OECD-only data in SITC format, 5 paper publications in all Also 6 CDs including historical data Data capture Data capture September 2006

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) September 2006

Tour Europe The End September 2006