WDS – WIFO Data System
High standards of data responsibility in connection with WIFO's researchers' years of experience make WDS a reliable and quality assured source of information for national and international economic data. WDS is therefore rightly called a "mirror of the national and international political economy".
The database contains extensive statistics on the Austrian economy. This central inventory is divided into the following topics:
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The sets of data contained in WDS have been created partly by WIFO or have been obtained from data suppliers (for example, Statistics Austria, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, the Federation of Social Insurances). The data received in different formats from suppliers are extracted by WDS and then processed into homogeneous data sets. New data is added to the database immediately upon its availability. Special attention is given to the maintenance of long time series.
In addition to national data providers, the database also contains data sets of international organisations:
- wiiw – The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
- European Commission – Annual Macro-Economic Database (AMECO)
- OECD – National Accounts (NAQ)
- OECD – Economic Outlook (ECO)
- OECD – Main Economic Indicators (MEI)
- IMF – Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS)
- IMF – International Financial Statistics (IFS)
- IMF – Directions of Trade (DOTS)
These national and international data sets can be accessed for a nominal fee using the WDS client developed by WIFO and the current part of WIFO IT and the WIFO Development Team. For further information, please contact the Research Data Management under wds-info@wifo.ac.at.
