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The specifications of the economic and financial data for the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) are in terms of:

Coverage:

The categories and components that are most important in shedding light on macroeconomic performance and policy. The standard identifies for each of the four sectors of the economy (i) a comprehensive statistical framework; (ii) data that permit frequent tracking of the principal measures in the framework; and (iii) other data relevant to the sector.

Periodicity:

The frequency of compilation-daily, weekly, monthly, etc.

Timeliness:

The maximum lapse of time between a reference date (or close of a reference period) and dissemination, for example, one month.

Wednesday 21 June 2006

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