# IMF/WEO, subjects LP, LE? **URL:** \ **Category:** Data Issues\ **Created:** [May 8, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365 "2020-05-08T22:52:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![acottrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365/1 "2020-05-08T22:52:10Z")
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 those series, or can they be found somewhere else in the IMF collection? ---
**Author:** ![thomasbrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@thomasbrand](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/thomasbrand)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365/2 "2020-05-09T07:22:47Z")
In April, IMF published only a subset of WEO series. For now, you can retrieve only the latest version of the WEO dataset through DBnomics API. But we are working on merging the latest two versions of the WEO. ---
**Author:** ![acottrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365/3 "2020-05-09T13:22:42Z")
OK, thanks for the quick reply! ---
**Author:** ![thomasbrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@thomasbrand](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/thomasbrand)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365/4 "2020-05-18T07:30:17Z")
We merged the last two WEO datasets, you can access it now on DBnomics. ---
**Author:** ![acottrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365/5 "2020-05-18T12:11:04Z")
Thanks, @thomasbrand. But it seems I’m missing something. The following request (an example of something that worked earlier this year) doesn’t give me any results: [https://api.db.nomics.world/v22/series/IMF/WEO?dimensions={“weo-subject”:[“LP”,“LE”],“weo-country”:[“FRA”,“DEU”,“ITA”]}](https://api.db.nomics.world/v22/series/IMF/WEO?dimensions=%7B%22weo-subject%22:%5B%22LP%22,%22LE%22%5D,%22weo-country%22:%5B%22FRA%22,%22DEU%22,%22ITA%22%5D%7D) ---
**Author:** ![s915](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@s915](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/s915)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365/6 "2020-05-19T19:57:36Z")
Hi, actually the problem comes from the IMF source data not DBnomics. Their data from april 2020, namely [WEOApr2020all.xls](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2020/01/weodata/WEOApr2020all.xls), are incomplete. By comparing with the previous file [WEOOct2019all.xls](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2019/02/weodata/WEOOct2019all.xls), you can see that the data you want are missing in the file [WEOApr2020all.xls](https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2020/01/weodata/WEOApr2020all.xls). ---
**Author:** ![acottrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@acottrell](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/acottrell)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/imf-weo-subjects-lp-le/365/7 "2020-05-29T23:07:42Z")
OK, thanks. I understand there’s nothing dbnomics can do if a provider stops providing certain data!