Monetary, price and financial statistics

Scope and coverage:

- Monetary and financial statistics:Government finance, fiscal and public sector statistics (e.g., statistics on debt, deficit, revenue/ taxes, expenditure, and public sector employment)

- Money, banking and financial market statistics (e.g., financial accounts, money supply, insurance and pension funds, interest rates, exchange rates, stock market indicators, external debt)

- Financial soundness indicators (e.g., capital adequacy, asset quality, liquidity)

- Prices statistics: Price statistics are among the macroeconomic indicators regularly monitored to keep track of the performance of the economy. These include (a) producer’s prices; (b) foreign trade prices*; (c) wholesale prices; (d) retail prices; and (e) other relevant price statistics and indicators used in the formulation of wage, fiscal and monetary policies. The generation of price statistics involves the compilation of relevant price indices, which are used as:
economic indicator that captures or measures price movements on a month-on-month or year-on-year basis; deflator of an economic time series; tool in policy-making on issues affecting a sector of the economy and in the computation of parity prices for the administration of various national programs; and basis for forecasting business and economic conditions.