| 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** |
Gross official reserves (gold, foreign exchange, SDRs, and Fund position) denominated in U.S. dollars | Reserve-related liabilities, as relevant | M (W encouraged) | W |
| Merchandise trade** | Exports and imports | Major commodity breakdowns with longer time lapse | M | 8W (4-6W encouraged) |
| International investment position | See accompanying text | A (Q encouraged) | 2Q (Q encouraged) | |
| Exchange rates | Spot rates and 3- and 6- month forward market rates, as relevant | D | (/1/) | |
| Addendum: Population | Key distributions, e.g., by age and sex | A. | ||
* Comprehensive statistical frameworks
** Tracking categories
1. Given that these 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.
D Daily
W Weekly, or with a lapse of no more than one week after the close of the reference week
M Monthly, or with a lapse of no more than one month after the close of the reference month
Q Quarterly, or with a lapse of no more than one quarter after the close of the reference quarter
A Annual
