# Term Vectors: no return of ttf key if term not present \[v 2.3.5\]
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-vectors-no-return-of-ttf-key-if-term-not-present-v-2-3-5/74683
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 10, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-vectors-no-return-of-ttf-key-if-term-not-present-v-2-3-5/74683 "2017-02-10T15:48:40Z")
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### Author:  [@tilmanbeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tilmanbeck)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-vectors-no-return-of-ttf-key-if-term-not-present-v-2-3-5/74683/1 "2017-02-10T15:48:40Z")
Iam retrieving term\_statistics for a certain term with an artifical document. I wonder, in case the term is not present on the provided field, why the key 'ttf' (total term frequency) is not returned at all instead of returning simply zero.
This is my sample query:
curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/myindex/mytype/\_termvectors](http://localhost:9200/myindex/mytype/_termvectors)' -d '{ "doc" : {
"title" : "my\_term"
},
"fields":["title"],
"offsets": false,
"positions": false,
"term\_statistics": true,
"field\_statistics": false
}'
and my response:
{"\_index":"myindex","\_type":"mytype","\_version":0,"found":true,"took":1,
"term\_vectors":
{"title":
{"terms":
{"myterm":
{"term\_freq":1}}}}
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-vectors-no-return-of-ttf-key-if-term-not-present-v-2-3-5/74683/2 "2017-03-10T15:49:25Z")
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