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Connect STATA to PDH.stat with sdmxpdh
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Connect STATA to PDH.stat with sdmxpdh
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SDMXPDH is a version of the SDMXUSE Stata module, with the changes allowing users to connect to Pacific Data Hub .Stat API (PDH.stat). See the code here.
Full credit goes to Sebastien Fontenay, Robert Picard, Nicholas Cox.
This module is a simple adaptation of the SDMXUSE module (Fontenay), which itself uses the MOSS module (Picard & Cox).
Sebastien Fontenay, 2016. "SDMXUSE: Stata module to import data from statistical agencies using the SDMX standard," Statistical Software Components S458231, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 30 Sep 2018.
Robert Picard & Nicholas J. Cox, 2011. "MOSS: Stata module to find multiple occurrences of substrings," Statistical Software Components S457261, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 29 Apr 2016.
Instructions work for Stata SE 15.1 in Windows
Download .ado and .sthlp files from the Github repository here.
In Stata, find your "PERSONAL" directory path with the command: sysdir
In Windows, go to the "PERSONAL" directory location. It is probably C:\ado\personal\. If the path doesn't seem to exist, make the necessary folders yourself.
Put .ado and .sthlp files inside your "PERSONAL" directory.
Restart Stata.
Check the install worked by bringing up the SDMXPDH help document: help sdmxpdh
PDH.stat resources are maintained by SPC (Pacific Community), so SPC is the provider for resources.
General command structure is: sdmxpdh <resource> <provider>, <filters>
For example, use dataflow DF_CPI (Consumer Price Index)
This time, we want DF_CPI time series data from 2005 to 2018, for countries Fiji and Guam.
Using the dimensions() option is tricky, see the API documentation for a guide.
Again, let's use DF_CPI.
