Hi there,


I am working with the GEO_PERFORMANCE_REPORT 
<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/geo-performance-report>
 in 
order to fetch data related to the account locations. More specifically, 
the report I am working with is the User Locations Report 
<https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7492954?hl=en>, which can be 
found directly on the AdWords UI.


But I found out that there are some notorious differences for the data 
obtained via the AdWords API and the data shown via the AdWords UI, and the 
issues happen specifically with the aforementioned report, but also with 
the “*Geographic Report*”. I have applied the corresponding filters for the 
query, just as it's stated on the official documentation (1 
<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/geo-performance-report>
 and 2 
<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/uireports#user_locations_report>),
 
but even with that, the data differs a lot between both sources.


The query I am constructing ends up being the following one:

Google\AdsApi\AdWords\Query\v201809\ReportQuery {#7426
  -awqlString: "SELECT CampaignId, LocationType, Clicks, Impressions, 
CityCriteriaId, MostSpecificCriteriaId, CountryCriteriaId FROM 
GEO_PERFORMANCE_REPORT WHERE LocationType = 'LOCATION_OF_PRESENCE' AND 
IsTargetingLocation IN ['TRUE', 'FALSE'] DURING 20200401,20200430"
}


And the results I am getting (after sorting them by the Clicks metric) are 
the following: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6xpme91ig6wu1oy/Screenshot%202020-05-13%2018.18.43.png?dl=0.
 
But on the AdWords UI I get the following: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgtyglbs87lkb1p/Screenshot%202020-05-13%2018.20.20.png?dl=0
.


I can see that there are similar issues open here at the AdWords forum (1 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/adwords-api/93kMXNbsi3I> and 2 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/adwords-api/FDIdPVdSNRU/qz0RRuNSCAAJ>), 
but none of them seem fully solved.


Finally, based in the 
https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/geotargeting 
documentation 
and in some other tests I did by using the MostSpecificCriteriaId, I have 
the theory that this could be an issue with the zipcodes mapping on the API.


Do you know what is the reason of the discrepancy for the click counts (and 
also for the impression counts) between both sources of these report?. Help 
will be appreciated.

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