IMF International Financial Statistics at ESDS International

Title: IMF International Financial Statistics, 1948- (IMF IFS)

Access data: http://esds80.mcc.ac.uk/wds_ifs/ (See Access Conditions below)

Citation: The bibliographic citation for the database is: International Monetary Fund (<YYYY>): International Financial Statistics (<date/edition of dataset>). ESDS International, University of Manchester. DOI: <edition specific doi - e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/imf/ifs/2011-06 >. (See list of edition specific Digital Object Identifiers (DOI))

Edition: You will be able to access the most recent edition of the IMF IFS at ESDS International. If you wish to access a previous edition of the data, please contact the ESDS International team directly at international@esds.ac.uk.

Creator: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: ESDS International

Abstract: Published monthly since 1948, the International Financial Statistics (IFS) database is the principal statistical publication of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and is the standard source for all aspects of international and domestic finance. The database contains approximately 32,000 time series for over 200 countries and geographical areas. It reports, for most countries, time series data on exchange rates, balance of payments, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts and population.

Selected data, including data on Fund accounts, international reserves and international trade, are also aggregated into regional and world tables.

Data are reported in a mixture of indexes, national currencies, US Dollars and SDRs (the basket currency the IMF uses as a unit of account). Most annual data begin in 1948; quarterly and monthly data generally begin in 1957; most balance of payments data begin in 1970.

Dataset user guide: www.esds.ac.uk/international/support/user_guides/imf/ifs.asp

Access Conditions:

To access the ESDS International macro-economic datasets you must be a user from a UK higher or further education institution. We cannot provide data to users outside of this community due to the data re-distribution license agreements we have with our data providers. If you are a member of a UK higher or further education institution access to the macro-economic datasets is provided free of charge.

Access to data requires ESDS registration and uses the federated access management authentication system. Registration is a simple online process - go to the How to Register web page at (www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/access.asp) to begin the process.

Once you have registered with ESDS and attempt to access one of the macro-economic datasets, you will automatically be prompted to agree to additional dataset specific conditions if they apply.

Date of Release: First edition - 9 December 2003, latest edition - see record of database updates

Copyright: International Monetary Fund

Contact: Help desk: international@esds.ac.uk