# IMF BoP data, scale missing

**URL:** <https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-bop-data-scale-missing/245>\
**Category:** Data Issues\
**Created:** [May 14, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-bop-data-scale-missing/245 "2019-05-14T15:22:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![acottrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-bop-data-scale-missing/245/1 "2019-05-14T15:22:40Z")

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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 Mapper you can find out that they are in millions. There’s nothing in the JSON from db.nomics that conveys that information.

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**Author:** ![cbenz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/dbnomics.discourse.group/cbenz/32/33_2.png) [@cbenz](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/cbenz)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-bop-data-scale-missing/245/2 "2019-05-16T07:45:14Z")

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Hello @acottrell,

Thank you for taking the time to report this.

We may have skipped some meta-data in the data conversion stage.

We’re going to investigate and keep you in touch.

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**Author:** ![bruno.duye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/dbnomics.discourse.group/bruno.duye/32/65_2.png) [@bruno.duye](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/bruno.duye)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-bop-data-scale-missing/245/3 "2019-06-20T17:16:38Z")

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Hi @acottrell

I’m looking to this problem, but I’m a little lost in IMF data browser. Can you give a link to this dataset on IMF Data Mapper ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![acottrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-bop-data-scale-missing/245/4 "2019-06-23T14:48:10Z")

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It’s easy to get lost in the IMF data browser! And I have not found the exact page I visited earlier.  
But if you try, for example, [http://data.imf.org/regular.aspx?key=62805744](http://data.imf.org/regular.aspx?key=62805744) , you get  
similar BOP/IIP data, with a correct indication of the unit of measurement, namely “Millions of US Dollars”.