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This page is for documentation about the SDMX Central. The following documents are available:
  • SDMX Central User Guide.
  • SDMX Central Web Service Guide.
  • DSD for Economic and Financial Statistics (EcoFin).
  • Codelist for Economic Indicators.
  • FusionXL Download.  

SDMX Central User Guide.

This user guide provides information on the SDMX Central Graphical User Interface, FusionXL and the web services which can be used to automate data registrations.

A specific user guide, providing step-by-step help on converting excel to SDMX can be found here.


SDMX Central Web Service User Guide.

IMF SDMX Central provides SDMX web services to query for structures (such as Dataflows, Codelists, Concepts, Data Structures), and web services to query for data. The web service conforms to the SDMX Web Service Guidelines which can be found at http://sdmx.org.

The web service entry point for both structures and data is:

https://sdmxcentral.imf.org/ws/public/sdmxapi/rest

DSD for Economic and Financial Statistics (EcoFin 1.0).

Data Structure Definition (DSD) for the Economic and Financial Statistics (EcoFin) for reporting the components on the National Summary Data Pages (NSDP) including code lists with descriptors, except for the INDICATOR code list which is presented separately in the "Codelist for Economic Indicators" section.

Codelist for Economic Indicators.

Presentation of the INDICATOR code list (and related descriptor) in an Excel file organized in separate tabs, one per Data Category. The presentation facilitates the identification, by data providers and users, of indicators specific to a data category. The indicators are almost exclusively unique to a data category. The layout of the individual data categories follows standard presentations facilitating users to identify related components. 

FusionXL Download.

FusionXL is a plugin for Excel which adds functionality to the Excel Ribbon. The plugin communicates directly with SDMX Central to enable data services such as data author, validate, convert, and Publish.

FusionXL is free to download and use, no installation is required.

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