Policy Papers

Tenth Review of IMF Data Standards Initiatives

March 16, 2022

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International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. "Tenth Review of IMF Data Standards Initiatives", Policy Papers 2022, 005 (2022), accessed 12/5/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400204012.007

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Summary

The IMF Data Standards Initiatives enhance data transparency as a global public good. The Tenth Review updates the framework, in light of new data priorities, through a parsimonious and principles-based expansion of encouraged data categories covering selected aspects in the areas of public debt, macro-financial indicators, foreign exchange intervention, climate change-related policy, and gender- disaggregated labor market statistics. The Review also focuses on strengthening the monitoring of the first tier of the Data Standards Initiatives, the enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS), and encouraging subscribers of the second tier, the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), to modernize data publication technology.

Subject: Data dissemination, Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB), Economic and financial statistics, Monetary policy, Political economy, Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), Special Data Dissemination Standard Plus (SDDS+)

Keywords: Data dissemination, Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB), Global, IMF Data Standards Initiatives, SDDS coordinator, SDDS country, SDDS decision, SDDS nonobservance procedure, SDDS subscriber, Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), Special Data Dissemination Standard Plus (SDDS+)