International Transactions in Remittances: Guide for Compilers and Users
October 2009The IMF's Statistics Department, together with a group of experienced compilers referred to as the “Luxembourg Group”, has prepared International Transactions in Remittances: Guide for Compilers and Users (RCG). The link to the text of the RCG is presented below. |
(1,003 kb PDF file) Contents
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| 1. | Background and Purpose of the International Transactions in Remittances: Guide for Compilers and Users (pdf file) |
| A. | Background |
| B. | Purpose of the RCG |
| C. | Organization of the RCG |
| D. | Terminology Used in the RCG |
| 2. | Understanding Remittances: Demography, Transaction Channels, and Regulatory Aspects (pdf file) |
| A. | Demographic Perspective of Remittances |
| B. | Inventory of Transaction Channels and Institutional Environment |
| C. | Legal and Regulatory Issues |
| 3. | Concepts and Components (pdf file) |
| A. | Underlying Concepts |
| B. | Standard Components |
| C. | Supplementary Items |
| D. | Related Concepts |
| 4. | Data Sources and Estimation Methods (pdf file) |
| A. | International Transactions Reporting Systems |
| B. | Direct Reporting by Money Transfer Operators |
| C. | Surveys of Households |
| D. | Indirect Data Sources |
| E. | Summary Table |
| 5. | Compilation and Data Processing Issues (pdf file) |
| A. | General Compilation Issues |
| B. | Using Data from Diverse Sources |
| C. | A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Remittance Data |
| D. | Database Management and Computing Requirements |
| 6. | Dissemination Issues (pdf file) |
| A. | General Dissemination Issues |
| B. | Standard and Supplementary Components |
| C. | Bilateral Data |
| D. | Disseminating to Special User Groups |
| E. | Data and Metadata from Experimental Compilation |
| Appendix 1. Glossary of Terms (pdf file) | |
| Appendix 2. Data Quality Assessment Framework: Generic Framework (pdf file) | |
| Bibliography (pdf file) | |
| Index (pdf file) | |
| For questions relating to remittances, please contact the IMF at stabpm6@imf.org. | |