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Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board Special Data Dissemination Standard (AS PROVIDED TO THE IMF BY THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRY) Lithuania Summary of Observance          Printer Friendly Page Contact Person(s)   Mrs. Ausra Buiviene, General Statistics Division, Statistics Department, Bank of Lithuania (LB), Gedimino Ave. 6, LT-01103 Vilnius, Lithuania   Phone : 370 5 268 0420   Fax : 370 5 268 0428   Email : abuiviene@lb.lt  Access National Summary Data Page Cross-country comparisons: access the DSBB metadata query facility

Lithuania ( LTU )
SDDS Data Category	Coverage(meets SDDS)	Periodicity		Timeliness		Comments (Flexibility Options, etc)
		SDDS	LTU	SDDS	LTU
Real Sector (specifications)
National accounts	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	60 D
Production index	Yes	M	M	6W (1M encour- aged)	NLT 22D
Forward-looking indicators	Yes	M or Q	M	1M or 1Q	NLT 1D
Labor market: Employment	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	NLT 11W
Labor market: Unemployment	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	NLT 11W
Labor market: Wages/Earnings (Average Monthly Earnings )	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	60D
Price index: Consumer prices (Consumer Price Index (CPI) )	Yes	M	M	1M	NLT 10D
Price index: Producer prices (Producer Price Index for Manufactured Goods of Industry )	Yes	M	M	1M	NLT 7D
Fiscal Sector (specifications)
General government or public sector operations (General government net lending/net borrowing )	Yes	A	Q	2Q	NLT 6M
Central government operations (Central government net lending/net borrowing )	Yes	M	M	1M	NLT 1M
Central government debt	Yes	Q	M	1Q	NLT 1M
Financial Sector (specifications)
Analytical accounts of the banking sector (Monetary Survey )	Yes	M	M	1M	NLT 1M
Analytical accounts of the central bank (Balance Sheet of the Bank of Lithuania )	Yes	M (W recom- mended )	M	2W (1W encour- aged)	NLT 2W
Interest rates	Yes	D	D	1	D
Stock market: Share price index (OMX Vilnius )	Yes	D	D	1	D
External Sector (specifications)
Balance of payments	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	12-13W
Official reserve assets	Yes	M(W recom- mended)	M	1W	NLT 1W
Reserves template	Yes	M	M	1M (1W encour- aged)	NLT 1W
Merchandise trade (Foreign Trade )	Yes	M	M	8W (4-6W encour- aged)	40 D
International investment position	Yes	A(Q recom- mended)	Q	3Q (1Q encour- aged)	12-13W
External debt	Yes	Q	Q	1Q	NLT 3M
Exchange rates (Official Foreign Exchange Rates )	Yes	D	D	1	D
Socio-demographic Data (specifications)
Population	Yes	A	A	...	2M

Periodicity and timeliness: (D) daily; (W) weekly or with a lag of ## week(s) from the reference date; (WD) working days, or business days; (M) monthly or with a lag of ## month(s); (NLT) not later than; (Q) quarterly or with a lag of ## quarter(s); (A) annually; (SA) semiannual; and (...) not applicable. 1Given that the data are broadly disseminated by private means, the timeliness with which official data are disseminated is not time critical.