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  "title": "Uruguay: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module provides an assessment of Uruguay’s macroeconomic statistics against the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).\n- The assessment is complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework 2012."
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      "heading": "Key Findings",
      "content": "- Uruguay exceeds the SDDS timeliness requirements for:\n  - labor market (employment, unemployment, and wages/earnings)\n  - price (consumer prices and producer prices)\n  - international investment position data\n- No flexibility options are being used regarding real sector statistics."
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      "heading": "Timeliness Flexibility Usage",
      "content": "- Currently, Uruguay is using two regular timeliness flexibility options for:\n  - general government operations\n  - central government operations\n- Uruguay is using an “as relevant” timeliness provision for:\n  - analytical accounts of the banking sector for countries with extensive branch banking systems"
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      "content": "- The assessment leverages the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework 2012 to evaluate Uruguay’s macroeconomic statistics (no further methodological detail provided in the summary)."
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      "content": "- Subject: Consumer price indexes, Household consumption, Labor, National accounts, Prices, Producer price indexes\n- Keywords: base year, Caribbean, CBU, CBU staff, CBU website, Consumer price indexes, CR, economic activity, Household consumption, information, ISCR, NIS CPI unit, Producer price indexes, staff, statistics, time series\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. Uruguay: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module, IMF Staff Country Reports 2014, 042 (2014).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr1442\n  - cr1442 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr1442 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/uruguay-report-on-the-observance-of-standards-and-codes-data-module-41320"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
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    "Uruguay is using an “as relevant” timeliness provision for:",
    "The assessment leverages the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework 2012 to evaluate Uruguay’s macroeconomic statistics (no further methodological detail provided in the summary).",
    "Subject: Consumer price indexes, Household consumption, Labor, National accounts, Prices, Producer price indexes",
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