| Coverage |
Periodicity |
Timeliness |
| Prescribed |
Encouraged
categories and/or
components |
| Category |
Components |
| Real
sector |
National accounts:
nominal,
real, and associated prices * |
GDP by major expenditure
category and/or by
productive sector |
Saving, gross national income |
Q |
Q |
| Production index/indices
# |
Industrial, primary commodity, or sector,
as relevant |
|
M (or as relevant) |
6W (M encouraged, or as
relevant) |
| |
|
Forward-looking indicator(s), e.g.,
qualitative business surveys, orders, composite leading indicators
index |
M or Q |
M or Q |
| Labor market |
Employment, unemployment, and wages/earnings,
as relevant |
|
Q |
Q |
| Price indices |
Consumer prices and producer or wholesale
prices |
|
M |
M |
| Fiscal
sector |
General government or
public sector operations,
as relevant * |
Revenue, expenditure, balance, and domestic
(bank and nonbank) and foreign financing |
Interest payments |
A |
2Q |
Central government
operations # |
Budgetary accounts: revenue, expenditure,
balance, and domestic (bank and nonbank) and foreign financing
|
Interest payments |
M |
M |
| Central government debt |
Domestic and foreign, as relevant, with
a breakdown by currency (including indexed), as relevant, and
a breakdown by maturity; debt guaranteed by central government,
as relevant |
Debt service projections: interest
and amortization on medium and long-term debt (Q for next 4 quarters
and then A) and amortization on short-term debt (Q) |
Q |
Q |
| Financial
sector |
Analytical accounts of the
banking sector * |
Money aggregates, domestic credit by
public and private sector, external position |
|
M |
M |
Analytical accounts of the
central bank # |
Reserve money, domestic claims on public
and private sector, external position |
|
M (W encouraged) |
2W (W encouraged) |
| Interest rates |
Short-term and long-term government
security rates, policy variable rate |
Range of representative deposit and
lending rates |
D |
1/ |
| Stock market |
Share price index, as relevant |
|
D |
1/ |
| External
sector |
| Balance of payments * |
Goods and services, net income flows,
net current transfers, selected capital (or capital and financial)
account items (including reserves) |
Foreign direct investment and portfolio
investment |
Q |
Q |
| International reserves and foreign
currency liquidity # |
Total official reserve assets (gold,
foreign exchange, SDRs, and Fund position); other foreign currency
assets; predetermined short-term drains on foreign currency assets;
contingent short-term drains on foreign currency assets; and related
items. 2/ |
|
M (W encouraged) |
W for total official reserve assets; M for all
other items (W encouraged)
|
| Merchandise trade # |
Exports and imports |
Major commodity breakdowns with longer
time lapse |
M |
8W (4-6W encouraged) |
International investment
position |
See specifications | |
A (Q encouraged) |
3Q (Q encouraged) |
| Exchange rates |
Spot rates and 3- and 6-month forward
market rates, as relevant |
|
D |
1/ |
| External debt |
Debt of the general government, the
monetary authorities, the banking sector, and other sectors. Data
should also be broken down by maturity-short-term and long-term on
an original maturity basis and by instrument, as set out in the
BPM5. |
See specifications |
Q |
Q |
| Addendum: Population | |
Key distributions, e.g., by age and
sex |
A |
... |
Periodicity and timeliness: Daily ("D"); weekly ("W") or with lapse of no
more than one week after the reference date or close of the reference
week; monthly ("M") or with lapse of no more than one month ; quarterly ("Q")
or with lapse of no more than one quarter; annual ("A").
* Comprehensive statistical frameworks
# Tracking categories
1/ Given that data are widely available from private sources,
dissemination of official producers may be less time-sensitive. Although
dissemination by recorded telephone messages or fax services is encouraged,
dissemination of these data can be made part of other (preferably high-frequency)
dissemination products.
2/ See Data Template on International Reserves
and Foreign Currency Liquidity. (see also the Operational
Guidelines.) The data on total official reserve assets identified
in Section I, item A of the data template are prescribed with monthly
periodicity and weekly timeliness. The other data specified in the data
template are prescribed with monthly periodicity and monthly timeliness,
unless otherwise indicated in that template.
Dissemination
