Changes to historical datasets

1. For Austria, IPI has been rebased from 2010 to 2015.
2. For France, national accounts have been re-referenced from 2010 to 2014 euros.
3. For Ireland, PPI ("wholesale price index") has been rebased from 2010 to 2015.
4. For Ireland labor force statistics, CSO has replaced its survey (QHNS » LFS).
• The LFS quartet (LBR, LBE, LBU, LBF) have been substantially revised.
5. For Lithuania, CPI has been rebased from 2010 to 2015.
6. For the Netherlands, national accounts have been re-referenced from 2010 to 2015 euros.
7. For Oman's stock price index, we have switched provider from IMF to SIX Financial.
• Levels are noticeably altered.
• Trends are similar.
• The lag is much reduced.
8. For Saudi Arabia, CPI has been rebased from 2007 to 2013.
9. For Turkey's national accounts, we now use the SA indexes published by Turkstat rather than performing the adjustment ourselves.
• Units are not changed.
• Quarterly pattern is revised slightly.
• We now match Turkstat's headline figures.
10. For the U.K., IPI has been re-referenced from 2015 to 2016.
11. For the U.S., NIPA has undergone its 2018 comprehensive update.
• Chained measures been re-referenced from 2009 to 2012.
• For chained measures, history has been truncated to 2002.

Changes to forecast mnemonics

1. For real and nominal USD global aggregates, we have altered the mnemonics used in Scenario Studio.
• Deleted “_D_” from mnemonics, e.g., FGDP$_D_IWRLD » FGDP$_IWRLD
• The change was made to facilitate viewing these aggregates in the Dashboard.
• Mnemonics in prior vintages will not be changed retroactively. 

See also

• Data Change: Austria - IPI - Rebased to 2015
• Data Change: France - QNA - Re-referenced to 2014
• Data Change: Ireland - WPI - Rebased to 2015
• Data Change: Lithuania - CPI - Rebased to 2015
• Data Change: Netherlands - QNA - Redefined and re-referenced
• Data Note: Turkey - GDP(E) and GDP(O) - CDASAAR
• Data Revision: U.K. - IPI - Re-referenced to 2016
• Data Change: U.S. - NIPA comprehensive update [2018]