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

[Mary Vardigan]

I wasn't sure if Y10 would indicate ten years of data since the definition 
says "YPP n years per period" or data collected every 10th year. But if 
it's the latter, that would be great.

Mary


At 02:39 PM 8/3/2005, Sandra.A.Cannon at frb.gov wrote:




>Mary,
>In the time series world, decennial wouldn't buy you much but in the panel
>study world the same doesn't hold.  Is a particular indicator for decennial
>sufficient or would we be better to use the Yn indicator for such things?
>Then Y10 would be decennial and Y2 would be biennial, etc.  I understand if
>decennial is considered special enough to have its own code though.
>
>/san/
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>San, Kate, and others,
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>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?
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>Mary
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>At 04:24 PM 8/2/2005, Sandra.A.Cannon at frb.gov wrote:
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> >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... ;-)
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> >(See attached file: freq.pdf)
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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
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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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Mary Vardigan
Director, Collection Delivery
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
University of Michigan
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
Phone: 734-615-7908
Fax: 734-647-8200
www.icpsr.umich.edu