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

Am 13.05.2019 um 22:04 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Mon, 13 May 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > > 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). > > Please give a reference to a specific dbnomics series ID, then we can > investigate. > Dear Allin, of course you're right. Consider the following series for France: ------------------------- Series: A.FR.BACK_BP6_EUR Provider: IMF Dataset: BOP (Balance of Payments (BOP)) Identifier: IMF/BOP/A.FR.BACK_BP6_EUR Name: Annual – France – Net Lending (+) / Net Borrowing (-) (Balance from Current and Capital Account), Euros Dimensions, showing JSON mask form:   Frequency: Annual, {"FREQ":["A"]}   Reference Area: France, {"REF_AREA":["FR"]}   Indicator: Net Lending (+) / Net Borrowing (-) (Balance from Current and Capital Account), Euros, {"INDICATOR":["BACK_BP6_EUR"]} ------------------------- pd = 1; 20 observations, 1999 - 2018 The values range from -25286 to 48810, surely these cannot be pure Euros, instead probably million Euros such that the maximum is 48.8bn (in the American sense, bn=10^9). But I don't see that scaling information.