The SDMX User Guide aims to provide practical explanations and guidance to users and potential users of SDMX.

	SDMX User Guide 2009.1 (Word)
	SDMX User Guide 2009.1 (PDF)
	Example files for Release 2009.1 (updated 14.1.2009)
	Schemas and sample files from SDMX Version 2.0 standards

To complement the User Guide, contributed documents provide additional in-depth tutorials and guidance on SDMX.

Version 2009.1 is the second release of the User Guide as a complete document. In this release, the material has been separated into two main parts:

Part A – the core thread – aims to explain SDMX in a non-technical way, dealing with the use of SDMX at all stages of the production and dissemination of statistics. This part of the User Guide should be accessible to statisticians without any special knowledge or interest in informatics.

Part B – the tutorial thread – is aimed at readers who want more in-depth technical information on SDMX. It assumes that the reader wants to to work with, or at least to understand, the information technologies which underly SDMX.

Of course, many readers will want to look at both parts of the User Guide, which has been structured to make it easy for readers to work through the core thread while, if they wish, seeking further explanations or examples in specific chapters of the tutorial thread.

The emphasis throughout the User Guide is on practical use of SDMX, supported by examples. No prior knowledge of SDMX is assumed.

The SDMX User Guide is based partly on explanatory documents and tutorials from the SDMX sponsoring organisations, together with new material written for the user Guide.

It is expected that further revised releases will follow, taking advantage of new examples drawn from real-world usage of SDMX standards and guidelines, and responding to needs expressed by readers.

Comments on the User Guide are welcomed and can be sent to the SDMX Secretariat at secretariat [at] sdmx.org, indicating the version of the User Guide to which your comments refer.