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  "title": "Sri Lanka: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) Data Module",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, May 22, 2002",
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      "heading": "Summary assessment",
      "content": "- This report is a summary assessment of Sri Lanka’s data dissemination practices against the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), complemented by an in-depth assessment of the elements of data quality that underlie the national accounts, prices, government finance, monetary, and balance-of-payments statistics.\n- Sri Lanka has made good progress in meeting most of the SDDS specifications on coverage, periodicity, and timeliness of data categories.\n- Shortcomings exist in the access, integrity, and quality dimensions compared with the SDDS.\n- All agencies demonstrate professionalism and are generally transparent in their practices and policies."
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      "heading": "Key findings (data dissemination and quality)",
      "content": "- Progress: good progress in meeting most SDDS specifications on coverage, periodicity, and timeliness.\n- Shortcomings: deficiencies identified in the access, integrity, and quality dimensions relative to SDDS.\n- Institutional observations: agencies demonstrate professionalism and general transparency in practices and policies."
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      "content": "- National accounts\n- Prices\n- Government finance\n- Monetary statistics\n- Balance-of-payments statistics"
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      "content": "- Subject: Balance of payments statistics, Data collection, Economic and financial statistics, Government finance statistics, Monetary statistics, National accounts\n- Keywords: accounting data, B. consumer price index, balance of payments, Balance of payments statistics, balance sheet, base year, c.i.f. data, CBSL data, CBSL web site, CBSL's programme, Central Asia, central government, CR, Data collection, data revision, data timeliness, data user, Government finance statistics, ISCR, Monetary statistics, publication of DCS.\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Sri Lanka: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) Data Module\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2002, 104 (2002), accessed 9/11/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451823479.002\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr02104\n  - cr02104 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr02104 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
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    "Subject: Balance of payments statistics, Data collection, Economic and financial statistics, Government finance statistics, Monetary statistics, National accounts",
    "Keywords: accounting data, B. consumer price index, balance of payments, Balance of payments statistics, balance sheet, base year, c.i.f. data, CBSL data, CBSL web site, CBSL's programme, Central Asia, central government, CR, Data collection, data revision, data timeliness, data user, Government finance statistics, ISCR, Monetary statistics, publication of DCS.",
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