Introduction
Whilst there are close to 200 countries in the world, FlowPro’s extensive data offer is limited to around 80 of them, in particular the Emerging Market Economies whose government bonds are more regularly traded, as well as certain Advanced Economies (the US and France at the time of writing).
Our data is primarily about activity in government bonds, although we are increasing our coverage of equities.
Database Structure
The FlowPro instrument and country instrument properties tables are a good place to start when summarising FlowPro’s database structure for country and asset class data.
The instrument table contains about 100 rows, and if we tell you that one of the properties is the instrument name and that an example of an instrument name is “General Government, Domestic Law, Bond, Nominal Value, Foreign Holdings”, then hopefully you will see that this table is here to set out the securities (bonds, stocks) that we capture time-series data on, especially data to do with who holds the instruments.
The country instrument properties table contains about 9,000 rows, and if we tell you that one of the properties is the instrument and that another is the country then hopefully you will see that this table is here to set up different time-series data (on the similar instruments) for different countries. For example, the foreign holdings of local bonds in Colombia, or Hungary, or Peru.