Databases in Macrobond

Macrobond Proprietary Datasets National & International Datasets Third Party Datasets Vintage data Datasets in Chinese The Data you access via Macrobond is either part of the core package, or from our commercial add-on databases. The former is a comprehensive foundation of data that comes with the application, the latter is a selection of commercial databases … Continue reading “Databases in Macrobond”

Search activity tab – ‘Macrobond defined’ and ‘By description’

Purpose Searching with ‘Macrobond defined’ Searching with ‘By description’ How to add data to a file? Purpose Search is a useful function to quickly find the same indicator for different countries. There are two ways to do this. If the relevant indicator is Macrobond defined, all it takes is a single click to generate the … Continue reading “Search activity tab – ‘Macrobond defined’ and ‘By description’”

Using Favorites

Purpose What is this helpful for? How it works Favorites folders Comments Creating Favorites from different activities Purpose Favorites is a way of creating an easy-to-navigate reference list of time series. Here you will be introduced to two main use cases for favorites, looking at how to mark time series as favorites, saving them to … Continue reading “Using Favorites”

Using Bookmarks

Purpose What is this helpful for? How it works? How to access bookmarked data? Creating bookmarks from different activities Purpose Simply put, bookmarks can be used to organize data by category, source, release and country to create a customized data tree, which you can access through a separate tab. Bookmarks allow you to collect the … Continue reading “Using Bookmarks”

Locate series in Tree

Overview Locate series in tree in Search activity Analytics activity Overview Most time series are available in more than one view of the database, such as Source & Release or Concept & Category. ‘Locate series in Tree’ is an action that makes it easy to hop between these different views when looking at a particular … Continue reading “Locate series in Tree”

Other types of in-house series

Document in-house series Calculated in-house series External in-house series Beside Account and Excel in-house you can create other in-house series with Macrobond: Document in-house series If you need one-time data that will be accessible only in that file it’s what you were looking for. Its prefix is ih:mb:doc. For more information see Document series – … Continue reading “Other types of in-house series”