The data are different, but fully consistent. CDIS-inward stocks are broken down by the immediate counterpart, while all our publications and publishable reports to the OECD use the UCI. Therefore the numbers may be different. But they are consistent in the sense, that they are based on exactly the same individual components that a re added up in a different way.<br><br>As regards series excluding SPEs: FDI transactions and positions by partner country and by industry excluding resident SPEs reported to the OECD also exclude real estate, while FDI aggregates exluding SPES include real estate.<br>