Joint dissemination of
Eurosystem statistics:
a way to enhance accessibility &
ensure consistency of statistics
Catherine Ahsbahs, Violetta Damia
Gérard Salou, Caroline Willeke
CCSA Conference
Newport, 27 - 28 April 2006
Key features of the enhanced accessibility
• Joint dissemination; simultaneous release of euro
area statistics and national contributions on the
websites of the ECB and NCBs
• Consistency of data ensured by use of a single data
bank on the ECB’s website (applying latest
internet technology)
Background
• ECB continues to publish and focus on the euro
area aggregates
• Increasing external use of and demand for ECB
statistics, including requests for national
contributions to euro area aggregates
• Previous situation:
– Accessibility of national contributions
cumbersome: users needed to search on 13
websites in different languages, with different
lay-outs
Improved access and increased flexibility
• Same statistics now available on the websites of the
ECB and all Eurosystem NCBs and accessible in
almost all official languages of the euro area
• Data are easily downloadable in Excel, to be used for
further calculations and comparisons (country shares,
instrument breakdowns by country, etc.)
• Easy access to historical series
• In case of difficulties, user service desks can be
consulted (in the ECB or in any NCB)
What is now included in the joint dissemination?
Table 1 Aggregated balance sheet of euro area Monetary Financial
Institutions (MFIs), including breakdowns
Table 2 Domestic and cross-border positions of euro area MFIs
Table 3 Outstanding amounts and transactions of euro-denominated
debt securities by country of residency, sector of the issuer
and original maturity
Table 4 Outstanding amounts and transactions of euro-denominated
quoted shares by country of residency and sector of the
issuer
Table 5 Official reserve assets, other foreign currency assets and
related short-term liabilities
Table 6 Total assets of euro area investment funds
Live demo
How does it work?
ECB
Database
XSL
Layout
of BBK
web
site
XML
Data
from ECB
database
SDMX v1
XSL
Layout
of ECB
web
site
Where exactly can the data be accessed?
European Central Bank:
http://www.ecb.int/stats/services/escb/html/index.
en.html
Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de
Belgique:
http://www.nbb.be/SIF/ChangeLocale.do?language=nl
http://www.nbb.be/SIF/ChangeLocale.do?language=fr
Deutsche Bundesbank:
http://www.bundesbank.de/statistik/statistik_eszb.php
Banco de España:
http://www.bde.es/estadis/zoneur/zoneur.htm
Banque de France:
http://www.banque-france.fr/fr/stat_conjoncture/Dyn
amin/dynamin.htm
Banca d’Italia:
http://www.bancaditalia.it/statistiche/consultazione/
sabc
De Nederlandsche Bank:
http://www.statistics.dnb.nl/index.cgi?lang=uk&
todo=Links
Oesterreichische Nationalbank:
http://www.oenb.at/de/stat_melders/datenange
bot/internat_vergleiche/Daten_des_Euroraums
/ausgewaehlte
Banco de Portugal:
http://www.bportugal.pt/stats/Eurosistema/EO/
EstatisticasOnline.htm
Suomen Pankki – Finlands Bank:
http://www.bof.fi/fin/5_tilastot/5.8_euroalue/
http://www.bof.fi/swe/5_tilastot/5.8_euroalue/