## Uruguay: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes-Data Module and the Response by the Authorities

_IMF Staff Country Reports, October 18, 2001_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 18, 2001
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451839272.002

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### Overview and Purpose
- Provides a summary of Uruguay's practices with respect to the coverage, periodicity, and timeliness of the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) data categories.
- Presents an assessment of the quality of national accounts, prices, fiscal, monetary and financial, and external sector statistics.
- Notes that Uruguay has made good progress recently in improving the dissemination of statistical information.
- Highlights that the Internet pages of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) and the National Institute of Statistics (INE) allow increasingly detailed monitoring of developments in the Uruguayan economy.

### Key Findings
- Progress:
  - Uruguay has made good progress recently in improving the dissemination of statistical information.
  - The BCU and INE web pages provide increasingly detailed monitoring of economic developments.
- Coverage and standards:
  - The report assesses coverage, periodicity, and timeliness against the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).
- Quality assessments:
  - Quality evaluations are provided for national accounts, prices, fiscal statistics, monetary and financial statistics, and external sector statistics.
- Subject areas covered:
  - Balance of payments
  - Data dissemination
  - Economic and financial statistics
  - Fiscal accounting and reporting
  - Foreign direct investment
  - Government finance statistics
  - National accounts
  - Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)

### Keywords and Terms Emphasized
- BCU, BCU charter, BCU web page, BCU website
- CR, current price
- Data dissemination, SDDS data category, Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)
- ISCR
- timeliness problem
- wholesale price index
- Foreign direct investment
- Government finance statistics
- National accounts

*International Monetary Fund. "Uruguay: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes-Data Module and the Response by the Authorities", IMF Staff Country Reports 2001, 183 (2001).*

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