Definition: Key structure

Data and metadata exchange

Ordered set of coded statistical concepts whose combination of values (dimension values) uniquely identifies each time series within a data set.

Source:
European Central Band (ECB), Bank for International Settlement (BIS), Eurostat, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), "GESMES/TS User Guide", Release 3.00, February, 2003; unpublished on paper

Created:
2005-02-02

Updated:
2019-05-10