# Data Issues

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## [METI (JP) provider was not updated since 2020-01](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/meti-jp-provider-was-not-updated-since-2020-01/404)

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**Author:** [@k\_spaceknow](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/k_spaceknow)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [November 25, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/meti-jp-provider-was-not-updated-since-2020-01/404 "2021-11-25T11:13:16Z")

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Last update for https://db.nomics.world/METI was January 2, 2020 Dataset: https://db.nomics.world/METI/iip is not available at all. Is it possible to resume ingestion of these indices? According to https://git.nomics.…

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## [Availability of past datasets](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/availability-of-past-datasets/436)

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**Author:** [@fjsansu](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/fjsansu)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2021, 10:48am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/availability-of-past-datasets/436 "2021-09-06T10:48:36Z")

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Hello, I have verified that for IMF provider there are several available datasets, for example: WEO by countries (2021-04 release) \[IMF/WEO:2021-04\] WEO by countries (2020-10 release) \[IMF/WEO:2020-10\] I wonder if t…

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## [Inept](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/inept/424)

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**Author:** [@joaoleal](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/joaoleal)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 7, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/inept/424 "2021-06-07T18:53:43Z")

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Dear all, Thanks a lot for your excellent service! I am writting you to ask if its feasible to update the \[INEPT\] Statistics Portugal provider data? It would be great for a project I am into. Thanks a lot,

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## [Missing a vast chunk of MONTHLY frequency series on the IMF Consumer Price Index database (CPI) \[CPI\]](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/missing-a-vast-chunk-of-monthly-frequency-series-on-the-imf-consumer-price-index-database-cpi-cpi/416)

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**Author:** [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 19, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/missing-a-vast-chunk-of-monthly-frequency-series-on-the-imf-consumer-price-index-database-cpi-cpi/416 "2021-05-19T12:10:38Z")

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Hi. First: thank you for developing this fantastic tool called dbnomics! I noticed that within the last couple of months, a very large chunk of the MONTHLY frequency series on the IMF Consumer Price Index (CPI) \[CPI\*\] …

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## [Oxford Stringency](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/oxford-stringency/399)

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**Author:** [@joaoleal](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/joaoleal)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [April 29, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/oxford-stringency/399 "2021-04-29T09:41:49Z")

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Dear all, Thank you for this amazing resource! Its truly a public service that makes a big difference in making information available to all. I was wondering if there is any way of adding the Oxford Stringency Index da…

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## [Ons cpi (uk)](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/ons-cpi-uk/410)

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**Author:** [@ndprev2](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/ndprev2)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 24, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/ons-cpi-uk/410 "2021-03-24T09:15:36Z")

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Hello, There seems to be wide gaps in some UK CPI series, for instance here : ONS/MM23/D7BT.Q And mainly only NA values for the CPI weights. Thank you for your help.

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## [INSÉE employment data don't seem up to date](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/insee-employment-data-dont-seem-up-to-date/408)

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**Author:** [@florian](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/florian)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/insee-employment-data-dont-seem-up-to-date/408 "2021-03-08T08:30:12Z")

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Hello, It seems that some INSÉE data aren’t updated. For example this dataset stops in 2016: https://db.nomics.world/INSEE/CNA-2010-EMPLOI/A.CNA\_EMPLOI\_INTERIEUR.NNTOTAL.S11.VALEUR\_ABSOLUE.E10.FE.NOMBRE\_ACTIFS\_OCCUPES\_E…

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## [Germany Data (BUBA) was not updated for a month](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/germany-data-buba-was-not-updated-for-a-month/395)

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**Author:** [@snaiste](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/snaiste)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [February 10, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/germany-data-buba-was-not-updated-for-a-month/395 "2021-02-10T09:15:51Z")

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Hello, I hope this finds you well. Germany is releasing a lot of new data since Friday, but I’ve noticed that Germany’s datasets here: https://db.nomics.world/BUBA haven’t been updated for a month. Is there any chance y…

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## [Align\_periods not working?](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/align-periods-not-working/391)

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**Author:** [@jacklucchetti](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/jacklucchetti)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 11, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/align-periods-not-working/391 "2021-01-11T17:12:07Z")

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I’m trying to download a series using the following URL: https://api.db.nomics.world/v22/series?series\_ids=ECB/RTD/M.S0.N.C\_SP500.X&format=json&observations=1&align\_periods=1 Apparently, the align\_periods flag has no e…

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## [ECB/QSA update: 2019Q4 data](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/ecb-qsa-update-2019q4-data/367)

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**Author:** [@jhartwig](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/jhartwig)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 11, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/ecb-qsa-update-2019q4-data/367 "2020-11-11T19:35:50Z")

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Thanks for the great work with dbnomics! I was wondering when then ECB/QSA dataset will be updated. Altough, it seems like the ECB data get updated quite regularly, the ECB/QSA data were apparently last updated on March…

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## [IMF weo](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo/378)

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**Author:** [@Jtbk](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/Jtbk)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo/378 "2020-07-09T10:05:44Z")

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Hi, First thanks for your db. It is great and useful. One point that I do not understand. Why for example for the IMF forecast of GDP (\[ USA.NGDP\_RPCH.pcent\_change \] I can’t access the 2021 years forecast whereas it …

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## [IMF/WEO, subjects LP, LE?](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365)

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**Author:** [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [May 29, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365 "2020-05-29T23:07:42Z")

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Back in February one could get Employment and Population numbers per country under IMF/WEO, using “weo-subject” identifiers “LE” and “LP” respectively. Now no matches are found for such requests. Has the IMF discontinued…

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## [ISTAT not updated](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/istat-not-updated/325)

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**Author:** [@rsampognaro](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/rsampognaro)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/istat-not-updated/325 "2020-05-08T10:14:42Z")

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Hi, I’am starting to work on Italy. I was glad to see that Istat data was available on Dbnomics and I was really happy! However, that data has not been updated since June 2019. Is there a particular problem with Istat? …

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## [OECD database](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/oecd-database/362)

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**Author:** [@sando](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/sando)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/oecd-database/362 "2020-04-27T07:33:59Z")

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Hi, I was searching for OECD FDI statistics by partner country and by industry in https://db.nomics.world/, but it seems it doesn’t have it yet. Is there any plan to add more OECD database in near future?

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## [Representation of missing values: has this changed?](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/representation-of-missing-values-has-this-changed/322)

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**Author:** [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/representation-of-missing-values-has-this-changed/322 "2020-02-04T20:27:51Z")

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When there are missing values in a time series, there are two ways this can be handled: A. Maintain a complete calendar (consecutive dates relative to the frequency of the series) and insert “NA” (or some symbol define…

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## [Python API issue](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/python-api-issue/275)

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**Author:** [@shnam](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/shnam)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/python-api-issue/275 "2019-09-01T03:30:12Z")

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Python api is giving me ‘Internal server error’. My code was working fine yesterday. Can someone tell me when this would be fixed?

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## [Destatis](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/destatis/255)

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**Author:** [@Bducoudre](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/Bducoudre)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/destatis/255 "2019-07-15T12:38:21Z")

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Hi, looking at Destatis data on national accounts, I found that some data are not up-to-date, for example : DESTATIS/81000BV008/DG.VGRJPM.X12ARIMAKSB.VGR026 DESTATIS/81000BV008/DG.VGRPKM.X12ARIMAKSB.VGR026 DESTATIS/8…

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## [Inconsistency in NBB data](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/inconsistency-in-nbb-data/261)

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**Author:** [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 1, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/inconsistency-in-nbb-data/261 "2019-07-01T15:06:29Z")

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The JSON representation of data from the National Bank of Belgium appears to be inconsistent with what one finds from other providers, in respect of the dimensions\_values\_labels. Usually these labels are given as JSON ob…

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## [IMF BoP data, scale missing](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-bop-data-scale-missing/245)

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**Author:** [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 23, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-bop-data-scale-missing/245 "2019-06-23T14:48:10Z")

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There’s an oddity with IMF Balance of Payments data. See for example IMF/BOP/A.FR.BACK\_BP6\_USD. The unit is just given as “US Dollars” but the values clearly are not plain dollars, and if you visit the IMF’s own Data Ma…

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## [Reserve Bank of Australia: historical interest rates](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/reserve-bank-of-australia-historical-interest-rates/244)

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**Author:** [@BrianRomanchuk](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/BrianRomanchuk)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/reserve-bank-of-australia-historical-interest-rates/244 "2019-05-16T10:59:31Z")

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As a heads up, the Reserve Bank of Australia has a section labelled “historical data”: spreadsheets that with older back history. (Since these are back history, they won’t change.) For the interest rate data (tables F1,…

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## [Various Comments on Website/Python API](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/various-comments-on-website-python-api/242)

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**Author:** [@BrianRomanchuk](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/BrianRomanchuk)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 6, 2019, 9:37am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/various-comments-on-website-python-api/242 "2019-05-06T09:37:57Z")

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These are a few issues I ran into. (1) When I accessed the site with Microsoft Edge (44.17763.1.0), the filters for selecting series were not working (e.g., only look at quarterly series). This made searching for series…

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## [Problem with Website ("internal server error")](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/problem-with-website-internal-server-error/238)

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**Author:** [@cbenz](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/cbenz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2019, 9:46am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/problem-with-website-internal-server-error/238 "2019-04-22T09:46:37Z")

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Hi everyone, Since yesterday the Web API of DBnomics has a problem. The consequence is that the website sometimes displays “Internal server error” instead of the expected page. You can workaround this problem by refr…

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## [Problem with IPI data from INSEE](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/problem-with-ipi-data-from-insee/232)

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**Author:** [@rsampognaro](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/rsampognaro)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/problem-with-ipi-data-from-insee/232 "2019-04-10T13:15:02Z")

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Hello, I am trying to download the last figures for the French IPI from ‘INSEE’ provider and the database ‘IPI-2015’ and I cannot donwload the January 2019 figures for the ‘CVS-CJO’ correction. Other units are available…

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## [OECD/MEI problem](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/oecd-mei-problem/233)

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**Author:** [@Bducoudre](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/Bducoudre)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 2, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/oecd-mei-problem/233 "2019-04-02T16:19:11Z")

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Hi, when I try to get data on job vacancies from OECD/MEI, I get the message “Error: The retrieved dataset doesn’t have a column named ‘period’, it’s not normal please check \<db.nomics.world\>” I tried downloading for …

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## [BLS/occupational\_requirements : error 404, not found](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/bls-occupational-requirements-error-404-not-found/230)

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**Author:** [@Bducoudre](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/Bducoudre)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 2, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/bls-occupational-requirements-error-404-not-found/230 "2019-04-02T11:12:34Z")

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Hi, when going on BLS/occupational\_requirements page, I get a 404 error saying “Dataset ‘BLS/occupational\_requirements’ not found” Thks

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## [Observations=true not always respected](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/observations-true-not-always-respected/210)

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**Author:** [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 25, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/observations-true-not-always-respected/210 "2019-01-25T13:00:19Z")

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When using the v22 API with path /series/provider\_code/dataset\_code/series\_code\_mask it seems that the observations=true flag is not being respected. Here’s a specific example: https://api.db.nomics.world/v22/series/IM…

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## [Is the website API section down?](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/is-the-website-api-section-down/212)

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**Author:** [@vineeth.naik](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/vineeth.naik)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 25, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/is-the-website-api-section-down/212 "2019-01-25T11:53:49Z")

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The website was down yesterday, while today the API section still seems down. Any idea when will i be able to download my API data again?

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## [ECB interest rates dataset disappeared](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/ecb-interest-rates-dataset-disappeared/202)

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**Author:** [@jacklucchetti](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/jacklucchetti)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 12, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/ecb-interest-rates-dataset-disappeared/202 "2018-12-12T11:05:00Z")

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I have an application that uses the ECB/IRS database. I found this morning that this database is no longer in DBnomics. Is this a temporary problem, or has it been removed forever? Thanks!

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## [API for Gretl](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/api-for-gretl/130)

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**Author:** [@mrd](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/mrd)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/api-for-gretl/130 "2018-10-19T08:37:40Z")

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Hi everyone, Has anybody tried to access db.nomics data from gretl or knows how to do? Cheers, Martin

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## [INE-SPAIN: data missing](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/ine-spain-data-missing/167)

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**Author:** [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 21, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/ine-spain-data-missing/167 "2018-08-21T19:35:10Z")

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The dataset /INE-SPAIN/9130 seems to be broken. If you examine it via https://next.nomics.world/INE-SPAIN/9130 many series are listed, starting with “INE-SPAIN/9130/a.00.051.0.index”. But for this series: (a) clicking …

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