Fiscal stimulus data contains duplicates, clearly wrong data and missing data

[dbmurray]

This is a great resource that I've been heavily leaning on for some of my own work, but I wanted to make you aware of some data quality issues with the values in the E3 indicator (fiscal measures).

1. Existence of duplicates

There seems to be a number of duplicate entries on consecutive days. For example, Cape Verde has the same value entered 16 times on consecutive days (and it seems to me to be an incorrect value as well, more on this in my next point.

2. Wrong data / incorrect format

There are a number of records where the fiscal value seems to be

For example, the dataset seems to be saying that Bolivia injected a measly 19 cents into its economy on the 9th of April.

This issue seems occurs for a number of countries throughout the dataset on this measure including Turkey, Guam, Pakistan, Ireland, Cape Verde, Morocco. I suspect whoever has data entered it assumed the data should be entered as millions of dollars instead of the complete integer.

There is also an possible typo with Slovenia, which the dataset has $217 billion entered as fiscal stimulus which is about 400% of their GDP. I suspect a zero or two have been inadvertingly added on.

3. Missing data.

The figures for Canada seem to be incorrect. the IMF World Economic Outlook reports fiscal stimulus of around 9% of GDP $205 billion. However the sum of the figures in E3 here fall way short (about 1.8 biollion). I suspect that either data has been missed or that the fiscal stimulus announced by Canada doesn't meet the specification of your E3 indicator?

Thanks again though for the resource.