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| The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness | ||||||||||||
| Coverage characteristics | 5.1.1 Statistical presentation Data are disseminated in millions of U.S. dollars on exports (fob), imports (fob) and the trade balance valued at transaction prices and cover the whole country.
Data arising from customs include breakdowns by use (cif values) and by use and geographical origin (fob values), in the case of imports; and by principal products, and by economic sector and geographical destination, in the case of exports (fob values).
Geographic detail: The direction of trade data by country are published with product group detail (country by commodity or group of commodities). The detailed commodity breakdown by country at the eight-digit HS level is available but not published. However, it may be photocopied by the users.
Commodity detail: The primary trade data (customs declarations) are at the 8-digits level of the HS, and are cross-classified at the three-digit level of ISIC.
Other: Unit value indices of imports and exports are computed quarterly. Export indices are computed at the 'summary' level of the ISIC classification. For imports, the indices are calculated for consumption goods, capital goods and intermediate goods, including separate indices for fuels and lubricants and petroleum. | |||||||||||
| Periodicity | 4.1.1 Periodicity Data on exports and imports are disseminated on a weekly basis, on the 7th, 15th, 23d and last day of each month. They are reported as cumulative figures within each month. | |||||||||||
| Timeliness | 4.1.2 Timeliness One week: for the intra-monthly cumulative totals on exports and imports and trade balance. For these purposes, the “weeks” are defined as covering the following days of each month: 1 to 7, 8 to 15, 16 to 23, and 24 to the last day of the month. | |||||||||||
| Access by the Public | ||||||||||||
| Advance dissemination of release calendar | 5.1.3 Advance release calendar An advance release calendar that gives a 12-month-ahead notice of the precise release dates of the weekly data is published on the Central Bank of Chile's Internet website (http://www.bcentral.cl/eng/ under 'Economic Statistics/SDDS/Advance Release Calendar'). In addition, the website publishes a quarter-ahead calendar on publications of economic statistics and reports, in Spanish, that gives the precise dates of publication of the Indicadores Económicos de Coyuntura (Short run economic Indicators), and the Boletín Mensual during the corresponding three-month period (http://www.bcentral.cl/esp/) under 'Sala de Prensa/Calendario de Eventos Económicos'). | |||||||||||
| Simultaneous release to all interested parties | 5.1.4 Simultaneous release The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties in the Central Bank's weekly 'Short Run Economic Indicators' (on the 7th, 15th, and 23rd days of the month, and at the end of the month) and the Central Bank's monthly Boletín Mensual (each 23rd) in Spanish.
Interested users can request an instant e-mail notification service which alerts them when the 'Short Run Economic Indicators', and the Boletín Mensual are published. The releases, edited only in Spanish, are not mentioned in the notification if the service is requested in English.
The Spanish request form is available at http://www.bcentral.cl/esp under 'otros servicios/notificación por email'; the English request form is available at http://www.bcentral.cl/eng under 'other services/e-mail notification service'.
These services and the access to the data on the Central Bank website are free of charge. | |||||||||||
| Integrity | ||||||||||||
| Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including those relating to the confidentiality of individually identifiable information | 0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics Banco Central de Chile The Central Bank's Constitutional Organic Act states that 'the Bank shall compile and publish [in a timely fashion] the main macroeconomic statistics, including those of a monetary and foreign exchange character, balance of payments and national accounts, and other overall economic and social accounting systems' (Law 18840, Article 53). The coverage, periodicity and timeliness of these statistics were established by resolutions 1110-02-040122 and 1267-03-060518.0.1.3 Confidentiality of individual reporters' data Banco Central de Chile 0.1.4 Ensuring statistical reporting Legal mandates and encouragement for statistical reporting are stated on the Central Bank's Basic Constitutional Act (Law 18840).1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination Banco Central de Chile An updated version of the Constitutional Organic Act of the Central Bank is available on the Central Bank ofA Spanish-language PDF format version of the Central Bank's resolutions Nos. 1110-02-040122 and 1267-03-060518 can be obtained at the Central Bank's website (http://www.bcentral.cl) in sections Normativa y Reglamentación and Acuerdos. Hardcopies of the Spanish version of the Central Bank's agreements can be obtained under request from the Departamento de Publicaciones of the Central Bank. (Fax: 56-2-6702475; E-mail mailto:bcch@bcentral.cl. Please include your fax number with the request.) | |||||||||||
| Identification of internal government access to data before release | 1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release Banco Central de Chile No government officials outside the Central Bank have access to the data before their release to the public. | |||||||||||
| Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases | 1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products Banco Central de Chile No ministerial commentary is attached to the release of the data.Merchandise trade A brief note prepared by the Central Bank's staff, on the evolution of the data, is normally included in the Central Bank's monthly Boletín Mensual or alternatively, on the Central Bank's web page. | |||||||||||
| Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology | 4.3.1 Revision schedule The aggregate weekly data are preliminary when first released and may be revised at the time of the first release of detailed data for that period. 1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques. Major changes in methodology are announced in advance in a special publication. | |||||||||||
| Quality | ||||||||||||
| Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics | 5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques The Central Bank's annual Balanza de Pagos de Chile ______ (Year) includes notes on sources of data and methodological issues in the general context of the balance of payments data. (See also summary methodology.) (See also summary methodology) | |||||||||||
| Dissemination of component detail, reconciliations with related data, and statistical frameworks that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness | 4.2.3 Intersectoral and cross-domain consistency Data on merchandise trade are the same as those used in the balance of payments statistics. Detailed data on imports are disseminated at cif values, whereas in the balance of payments statistics, total imports are adjusted to fob values.5.1.2 Dissemination media and format
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| Data Category Notes: a/ The above-mentioned dates are postponed to the next working day if they are holidays. | ||||||||||||
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