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BP6 - Balance of Payments and International Investment Position (BPM6)



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
	Title	BP6 - Balance of Payments and International Investment Position (BPM6)
	Data source	National Central Banks and/or National Statistics Offices, ECB and Eurostat
	Contact email address	Statistical Information Request form
	Contact organisation	European Central Bank
	Contact organisation unit	DGS/ESSA/ETS

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
	Dataset last update in SDW	2021-10-04 16:25:00
	Catalog	Download the series catalogue of the dataset BP6 in CSV format, i.e. full list of series and associated metadata: Excel 2013 (zipped) or the earlier Excel versions.

LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
	Legal acts and other agreements	National b.o.p. and i.i.p. statistics are collected in the context of Guideline ECB/2011/23 of 9 December 2011 (as amended)

SCOPE
	Data presentation - Summary description	The dataset contains the balance of payments (b.o.p.) and the international investment position (i.i.p.) of the euro area compiled by the ECB, as well as European union aggregates compiled by Eurostat and individual EU country data. The b.o.p. is a statistical statement that summarises, for a specific period of time, the economic transactions of an economy with the rest of the world. The different accounts within the b.o.p. are distinguished according to the nature of the economic resources (e.g. goods, services, income or financial resources) provided and received. The i.i.p. is a statistical statement that shows, at a specific point in time, the value and composition of financial assets of residents of an economy that are claims on non-residents and gold bullion held as reserve assets and liabilities of residents of an economy to non-residents; The current account and capital account main components are broken down by counterpart countries. Financial transactions and positions are presented by type of investment, resident and counterpart sector, type of instrument and country of residency of the counterpart
	Data presentation - Detailed description	Detailed documentation on b.o.p/i.i.p. can be found on the ECB website

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
	Time period	Monthly and quarterly b.o.p and quarterly i.i.p.
	Statistical concepts and definitions	For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the BP6 underlying DSD (BOP) maintained by the IMF.

STATISTICAL PROCESSING
	Adjustment	Non-adjusted as well as seasonally and working day adjusted
	Data validation	Data sent to and disseminated by the ECB have to respect a set of validation rules: (i) time consistency (monthly data summed up should be equal to data reported on a quarterly basis); (ii) geographical breakdown: i.e. intra and extra euro area transactions should sum up to transactions vis-à-vis rest of the world; (iii) reference sector: total economy should be consistent with the sum of the subsectors (S121, S12T, S13, S1P); iv) counterpart sector: follows the same intuition as the reference sector type; v) stock/flow reconciliation: stocks, transactions and other flows are interlinked: stock in period t is equal to stock in period t-1 plus transactions in period t plus other flows in period t; vi) accounting item: i.e. balance should be equal to credit minus debit etc.; vii) international accounts item: i.e. current account is equal to the sum of its components (goods, services, primary and secondary income); viii) functional category: total (financial account) is equal to direct, portfolio, other investment, financial derivatives and reserve assets. ix) maturity classification: i.e. long term and short term add up to all original maturities; and x) currency classification: i.e. for debt securities the currency breakdown of debt securities adds up to the total;
	Data revision - policy	Revisions to national data and euro area aggregates follow a pre-defined practice. Quarterly data are more extensively revised when data for the second and fourth quarters are first published; monthly data are kept consistent with quarterly data, hence revised in line with the availability/review of quarterly data.
	Quality management - quality assurance	Memorandum of Understanding between Eurostat and the European Central Bank/Directorate General Statistics on the quality assurance of statistics underlying the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure
	Quality documentation	2019 Quality Report (May 2020)
	Timeliness	The monthly data are published around 7 weeks after the end of the reference month, whereas the quarterly data are published 3 months after the reference quarter (see the ECB publication calendar)

DISSEMINATION
	Release policy - release calendar	ECB Statistical release calendar:https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/calendars/statscal/html/index.en.html
	Dissemination format - other formats	Monthly Bulletin, ECB website, Press Releases
	Documentation on methodology	BPM6 Manual,BPM6 compilation Guide,European Union Balance of Payments and International Investment Position statistical sources and methods

MISCELLANEOUS
	Metadata last update	08/SEP/2020 12:25:18

EDP - EDP tables



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
	Title	EDP - Excessive Deficit Procedure
	Data source	Eurostat
	Contact email address	Statistical Information Request form

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
	Dataset last update in SDW	2021-04-22 12:50:00
	Catalog	Download the series catalogue of the dataset EDP in CSV format, i.e. full list of series and associated metadata: Excel 2013 (zipped) or the earlier Excel versions.

LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
	Institutional mandate	European System of Accounts 2010 (ESA 2010) and Regulation (EC) 220/2014 amending Regulation 479/2009.
	Institutional mandate - data sharing	Eurostat, on behalf of the Commission, is responsible for assessing the quality of the EDP statistics transmitted by Member States. The methodology is based on the European System of Accounts 2010 (ESA 2010), which has the status of an EU Regulation, and on Eurostat"s Manual of Government Deficit and Debt (MGDD), as well as Eurostat"s decisions and guidance notes.

SCOPE
	Data presentation - Summary description	The EDP dataset includes data on government debt and deficit reported under the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP). National currency and EUR. The EDP dataset includes data on government debt and deficit reported under the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP).

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
	Time period	Annual
	Time period - collection	Last four years of statistics. Not seasonally adjusted.
	Statistical concepts and definitions	For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the EDP underlying DSD (NA_SEC) maintained by the ESTAT.

DISSEMINATION
	Dissemination format	Data are disseminated to ECB Statistical Data Warehouse (internal and external website). At the same time, GFS and EDP data are published in the Economic Bulletin and Statistical Bulletin (Chapter 6).

MISCELLANEOUS
	Metadata last update	02/DEC/2019 11:23:24

IRS - Long-term interest rate statistics



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
	Title	IRS - Long-term interest rate statistics
	Data source	EU member-states and Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
	Contact email address	Statistical Information Request form

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
	Dataset last update in SDW	2021-09-10 10:00:02
	Catalog	Download the series catalogue of the dataset IRS in CSV format, i.e. full list of series and associated metadata: Excel 2013 (zipped) or the earlier Excel versions.

SCOPE
	Data presentation - Summary description	The LTIR database contains statistics on interest rates for Member States that joined the EU, and a limited set of capital and money market interest rate statistics for EU candidate and Potential Candidate Countries. The data on Long-term Interest Rates for member-states that joined the EU prior 2001 are provided by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The domain of Interest Rate Statistics contains the national central bank’s official rates, money market interest rates, capital market interest rates. The database includes country level time series denominated in national currency and expressed in percentage per annum.

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
	Time period	Business
	Statistical concepts and definitions	For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the IRS underlying DSD (ECB_IRS1) maintained by the ECB.

MISCELLANEOUS
	Metadata last update	14/MAY/2021 18:25:39

LFSI - Labour Force Survey Indicators



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
	Title	LFSI - Labour Force Survey Indicators
	Data source	Eurostat
	Contact email address	Statistical Information Request form

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
	Catalog	Download the series catalogue of the dataset LFSI in CSV format, i.e. full list of series and associated metadata: Excel 2013 (zipped) or the earlier Excel versions.

SCOPE
	Data presentation - Summary description	Unemployment rates published by the European Commission (Eurostat) and conform to International Labour Organisation (ILO) guidelines. They refer to persons actively seeking work as a share of the labour force, using harmonised criteria and definitions.
	Data presentation - Detailed description	Please refer to the EU labour force survey – methodology and Unemployment statistics. Where annual and quarterly Labour Force Survey data have not yet been published, annual and quarterly data are derived as simple averages of the monthly data.

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
	Time period	Monthly, Quarterly
	Statistical concepts and definitions	For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the LFSI underlying DSD (EUROSTAT_LFS1) maintained by the EUROSTAT.

STATISTICAL PROCESSING

QUALITY

MISCELLANEOUS
	Metadata last update	12/JAN/2021 11:05:19

MNA - National accounts, Main aggregates (Eurostat ESA2010 TP, table 1)



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
	Title	MNA - National accounts, GDP and Main aggregates (Eurostat ESA2010 TP, table 1)
	Data source	Eurostat
	Contact email address	Statistical Information Request form
	Contact organisation	European Central Bank

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
	Dataset last update in SDW	2021-10-07 18:38:26
	FAME database shortcut	$ESA2010
	Catalog	Download the series catalogue of the dataset MNA in CSV format, i.e. full list of series and associated metadata: Excel 2013 (zipped) or the earlier Excel versions.
	Dataset content change	New price reference year (2015=100) for the volume series in the MNA dataset as of 04/10/2019. Note that the attribute REF_YEAR_PRICE has changed from "2010" to "2015". There is no change in the series keys (MNA.?.LR.?), however the level of the volume series will change due to the new reference year. This change follows the benchmark revision in national accounts in 2019 coordinated by Eurostat in line with the Harmonised European Revision Policy (HERP).

LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
	Legal acts and other agreements	Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (link)

SCOPE
	Data presentation - Summary description	The Main aggregates in the national accounts (MNA dataset) include gross domestic product (GDP), value added by main economic activity, main expenditure components and aggregated income statistics. These data are collected and disseminated by the European Commission (Eurostat) and the national statistical authorities. The MNA dataset also includes additional indicators calculated by the ECB such as implicit GDP deflators, contributions to growth, unit labour costs and its components (compensation per employee and labour productivity), as well as business investment. Data for the euro area / EU and the European countries are available.
	Data presentation - Detailed description	Gross domestic product (GDP) and its components - value added by economic activity, expenditure and income statistics - are part of the ESA 2010 annual and quarterly national accounts produced by the European Commission (Eurostat) and national statistical authorities. Euro area results are estimated using information for the individual countries. GDP is the value of an economy’s total output of goods and services less intermediate consumption, plus net taxes on products and imports. GDP can be also broken down by expenditure or income components. The main expenditure aggregates that make up GDP are household final consumption, government final consumption, gross fixed capital formation, changes in inventories, and imports and exports of goods and services (including intra-euro area trade) while the income components include gross operating surplus and mixed income, compensation of employees, taxes on production and imports, and subsidies. The GDP deflators and unit labour costs and its components (compensation per employee and labour productivity) are calculated by the ECB based on the ESA 2010 national accounts data. The GDP deflators are the ratios of the series in current prices and volume series, where the current price series for the countries are adjusted for national exchange rate movements before joining the euro area. Unit labour costs are a measure of total labour costs per unit of output calculated as the ratio of compensation per employee to labour productivity (defined as GDP per person employed). Labour productivity reflects the output that can be produced with a given input of labour. It can be measured in several ways, but is commonly measured as GDP divided by either total employment (by people in employment, i.e. including both employees and self-employed) or total hours worked. The headline ECB measure calculates labour productivity as GDP divided by persons in employment. Compensation per employee is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, that is payable by employers to employees in return for work, i.e. gross wages and salaries, as well as bonuses, overtime payments and employers’ social security contributions, divided by the total number of employees. For more information refer to ESA2010 manual and ESA2010 Transmission Program (Table 1).

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
	Time period	Quarterly and Annual
	Statistical concepts and definitions	For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the MNA underlying DSD (NA_MAIN) maintained by the ESTAT.

DISSEMINATION
	Release policy - release calendar	See Eurostat
	Documentation on methodology	See Eurostat website and Eurostat metadata.

MISCELLANEOUS
	Metadata last update	07/MAY/2021 20:54:40

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