[DDI-ADG] standards for frequency (or lack thereof)

[Mary Vardigan]

San, Kate, and others,

This seems like a really good start on a controlled vocabulary for 
frequency. Do we need an additional indicator for something like the 
decennial U.S. Census?

Mary

At 04:24 PM 8/2/2005, Sandra.A.Cannon at frb.gov wrote:




>Kate,
>This may be where using common definitions from time series data would be
>useful.  There are many possible frequencies in the software that we use
>(which Arofan says they are contemplating building into SDMX).  I don't
>know if it's authoritative or definitive but it certainly seems to be
>exhaustive.  I've attached a listing in a PDF of an internal webpage I
>support here.
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>More food for thought....
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>/san/
>who is sorry she is going on holiday this week and will miss the next
>several calls on this topic... well, not very sorry... ;-)
>
>(See attached file: freq.pdf)
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>San Cannon
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>Federal Reserve Board
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>Hi everyone,
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>I've looked around fruitlessly for any standard list of frequencies.  I
>looked at the ISO web site, but wasn't able to navigate to anything helpful
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>(maybe someone else is more familiar).  I did various web searches, to no
>avail.  I looked on the web sites and in reference books for bodies that I
>know collect/publish data at certain frequencies (e.g. IMF, World Bank).
>I even looked in the dictionaries in which I found the other definitions,
>and several economic dictionaries.
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>None of the sources above define/list these terms in any way.  I'm
>beginning to wonder if terms may be too taken-for-granted to be listed in a
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>structured way.
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>However, if nothing else, we could just go to a regular English dictionary
>for definitions of the terms.  For example, my Websters Collegiate
>Dictionary defines quarterly as "recurring, issued, or spaced at 3-month
>intervals."  This was the best that I found anywhere.  This wouldn't take
>care of our need for a list from which to work in the first place, but I
>expect we'd be able to brainstorm most. (and then the "other" option would
>cover the rest)
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>Maybe others have other ideas or techniques they could try, but I think I'm
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>stuck.
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>Kate
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