This user guide aims to help IMF member countries to manually create and maintain the machine-readable (SDMX) component of their National Summary Data Page (NSDP) using SDMX Central, a cloud-based tool. SDMX Central provides member countries the ability to convert data in Excel into SDMX format using an easy-to-follow Graphical User Interface.

The IMF SDMX Central offers web services for querying structures e.g. (Dataflows, Codelists, Concepts, Data Structures) and data. These services enable seamless integration with external software that can communicate with the SDMX web services, facilitating efficient data exchange and management. The web service conforms to the SDMX Web Service Guidelines which can be found at https://sdmx.org. The Guide assumes familiarity with the installation and use of Python code and Bash commands.

Questions? Contact us at sdmx@imf.org