Report of the International Monetary Fund on Common Open standards forthe Exchange and Sharing of Socio-economic Data and Metadata: theSDMX Initiative

Bank for International Settlements, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Statistical Office of the European Communities, and United Nations Statistical Division

3/22/2008
(Original Publish Date: 3/1/2002)

The BIS, ECB, EUROSTAT, IMF, OECD, and UN have joined together to focus on business practices in the field of statistical information that would allow more efficient processes for exchange and sharing of data and metadata within the current scope of our collective activities. The goal is to explore common e-standards and ongoing standardization activities that could allow us to gain efficiency and avoid duplication of effort in our own work and possibly for the work of others in the field of statistical information.