IMF Statistics Manuals and Guides
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Balance of Payments and External Sector
- The IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics oversees updates and companion guidance for balance of payments and external sector statistics.
- Update of the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6).
- BPM6 Compilation Guide: Companion document to the BPM6. It updates the Balance of Payments Compilation Guide that was released in 1995 to accompany the BPM5. Available in العربية, español, français, русский, 中文.
- 2013 External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide): Provides comprehensive guidance for the measurement, compilation, analytical use, and presentation of external debt statistics. The 2013 EDS Guide was produced by the IMF in conjunction with other members from the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS). Available in العربية, español, français, русский, 中文.
- International Transactions in Remittances: Guide for Compilers and Users (released in 2009): Provides practical guidance on the compilation of remittances based on the concepts set out in BPM6.
- 2015 CDIS Guide: Final version clarifies and updates the 2010 CDIS Guide and is consistent with the IMF BPM6 and OECD BD4. Available in español and français.
- CPIS Guide - Third Edition: Builds on and updates the second edition (2002) to reflect the adoption of BPM6 as the standard framework for compiling cross-border position statistics.
- Special Purpose Entities: Guidelines for a Data Template: Provides compilers guidance on the application of the IMF’s internationally-agreed definition of special purpose entities (SPEs) for external sector statistics. Developed to facilitate implementation of the agreed definition in 2018, with a decision tree to identify resident SPEs in host jurisdictions.
- Informal Economy Data: Compilation Practices: Disseminates information on collection and compilation techniques used by selected economies to estimate informal, underground, and/or illegal cross-border transactions and positions in their international accounts.
International Reserves and Liquidity
- International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity: Guidelines for a Data Template: Provides operational advice to IMF member countries that are subscribers to the Special Data Dissemination Standard regarding how to complete the prescribed (mandatory) monthly Data Template on International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity.
Monetary and Financial Statistics
- Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG): Updates and merges methodological and practical aspects of the compilation process for monetary and financial statistics (MFS). Offers a conceptual framework for collection, compilation, and analytical presentation of monetary data to support monetary policy formulation and monitoring. Versions in other languages will follow in due course.
- Financial Soundness Indicators: Compilation Guide (2019): Updates methodological guidance on concepts and definitions, data sources and methods for compilation and dissemination of financial soundness indicators. Includes new indicators to expand coverage of the financial sector, including other financial intermediaries, money market funds, insurance corporations, pension funds, nonfinancial corporations, and households.
Government Finance Statistics and Public Debt
- The IMF Government Finance Statistics Advisory Committee provides guidance and manuals for fiscal statistics.
- Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014): Describes the macroeconomic statistical framework (the GFS framework) designed to support fiscal analysis. Provides economic and statistical reporting principles and guidelines for presentation of fiscal statistics within an analytic framework that includes appropriate balancing items.
- Quarterly Government Finance Statistics – Guide for Compilers and Users: Reference to contribute to timelier, more accurate, and more internationally comparable data and to improve understanding of complex issues.
- Public Sector Debt Statistics – Guide for Compilers and Users: Targeted at developing countries focusing on practical solutions; the Guide addresses problems facing compilers of the consumer price index (CPI) in the developing world. Available in English, العربية, español, français, русский, 中文.
- Government Finance Statistics: Compilation Guide for Developing Countries, September 2011: Provides detailed information on how to gradually introduce GFSM 2001 guidelines and best practices into compilation and dissemination of fiscal statistics. Discusses key issues for government institutions in developing countries and illustrates with examples, figures, and tables. Available in español and français.
Price Indices, National Accounts, and Related Guides
- Export and Import Price Index (XMPI) Manual: Contains detailed, comprehensive information and explanations for compiling XMPIs.
- Consumer Price Index (CPI) Manual: Provides updated guidance, including practical compilation advice reflecting current best practices, to measure the rate at which prices of consumer goods and services are changing over time. Updates the previous edition published in 2004.
- Producer Price Index (PPI) Manual: Provides clear, up-to-date guidance on concepts, uses, methods, and economic theory of the PPI, including classifications, sources, compilation techniques, and analytical uses.
- System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA): Latest version of the international statistical standard for the national accounts; an updated version of the 1993 SNA. It is the fifth version of the SNA, the first of which was published over fifty years ago.
- Residential Property Price Indices: Guide and Handbook: Sets out practical advice on compilation of a Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) based on the conceptual approach described in the Handbook on Residential Property Price Indices (published in 2013). Available in español and français.
- Guide to Analyze Natural Resources in the National Accounts: Presents and explains a set of standard Template Tables using concepts recommended in the United Nations’ System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA).
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