[Gretl-users] units/magnitudes in DB.NOMICS databases [slightly OT]

Hi, this is not directly gretl-related I think, but who knows, maybe there are some possible workarounds in the API: Recently I (or actually, a student) have noticed that in some cases in db.nomics the information about the multiplication factor (million, billion...) for a series seems to be missing. We saw that for example in the balance of payments statistics the units are just given as "US dollars" or "local currency", but the numbers are far too small to be only single dollars (as opposed to bn$ or something like that). Of course it's not too difficult to match the magnitudes with some known level or based on plausibility, but it requires manual intervention, which is kind of beside the point for the whole db.nomics thing. Does anybody have an idea how to solve that? Is gretl perhaps not grabbing all the given information? thanks sven