Hierarchical Codelist

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Hierarchical Codelist
HCL
Hierarchical Code list

Organised collection of Codes that may be part of many parent/child relationships with other Codes in the scheme, as defined by one or more hierarchies of the scheme.

The Codelist in SDMX can be hierarchical but it is capable of being processed as flat list as each Code can have only one parent code. A Hierarchical Codelist (HCL) is able to have multiple hierarchies and can have formal Levels. The Codes used in an HCL are derived from one or more Codelists therefore an HCL can combine Codes from multiple Codelists and define hierarchies from these Codes. For example, adding geographic codes such as continents or regions.

Code, Hierarchy, Code list, Statistical data and metadata exchange

urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.conceptscheme.Concept=SDMX:CROSS_DOMAIN_CONCEPTS(2.0).HIERARCHIC_CODE_LIST

SDMX, "SDMX Glossary Version 1.0", February 2016

SDMX, "Guidelines for the Creation and Management of SDMX Codelists", Version 3.0, 19 January 2018 
SDMX Technical Notes

Used in the following terms: Hierarchical Code
Backlinks: 1 Introduction, 6 Cube, Change History, Part I. Message Namespace, Part III. Structure Namespace

More (2)Part V. Registry Namespace, SDMX 3.1 Standards. Section 1. Framework


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