| Table Name | Estonia |
| 1.0 Contact Information | |
| 1.1 Name | Tarass Snitsarenko |
| 1.2 Designation (Job Title) | Economist/Statistician |
| 1.3 Organization | Bank of Estonia |
| 1.4 Mailing Address | Estonia pst 13, 15095, Tallinn |
| 1.5 Country | Estonia |
| 1.6 Email | tarass.snitsarenko@eestipank.ee |
| 1.7 Telephone | +372 6680902 |
| 2.0 Concepts, Definitions and Scope | |
| 2.1 Statistical frameworks for the compilation of external debt data | 2013 External Debt Statistics Guide/6th Edition of Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6) |
| 2.2 Consistency with the external debt liabilities of the International Investment Position (IIP) | Yes |
| 2.3 Additional Information on Concepts, Definitions and Scope | None |
| 3.0 Sector Classification/Coverage | |
| 3.1 Data coverage for General Government | Fully covered |
| 3.2 Data coverage for Central Bank | Fully covered |
| 3.3 Data coverage for Deposit-taking corporations, except the Central Bank | Fully covered |
| 3.4 Data coverage for Other Sectors | Fully covered |
| 3.5 Data coverage for Other financial corporations | Fully covered |
| 3.6 Data coverage for Nonfinancial corporations | Fully covered |
| 3.7 Data coverage for Households and nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs) | Fully covered |
| 3.8 Data coverage for Direct Investment: Intercompany lending | Fully covered |
| 3.9 External debt statistics presented into Public and Publicly Guar. Private Sector and Private Sector Not Publicly Guar. Debt | No |
| 3.10 External debt include both foreign currency and domestic currency denominated debt instruments held by nonresidents | Yes |
| 3.11 Additional comments and explanations on Sector Classification/Coverage | None |
| 4.0 Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | |
| 4.1 Data coverage for Currency and deposits | Fully covered |
| 4.2 Data coverage for Debt Securities | Fully covered |
| 4.3 Data coverage for Loans | Fully covered |
| 4.4 Data coverage for Trade credit and advances | Fully covered |
| 4.5 Data coverage for Other debt liabilities | Fully covered |
| 4.6 Data coverage for Special drawing rights (allocations) | Fully covered |
| 4.7 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investment enterprises to direct investors | Fully covered |
| 4.8 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investors to direct investment enterprises | Fully covered |
| 4.9 Data coverage for Debt liabilities to fellow enterprises | Fully covered |
| 4.10 Arrears (including interest that accrues on arrears) reported in the same debt instrument | Yes |
| 4.11 Arrears separately identified in the memorandum items | No |
| 4.12 Classification of maturity for short-term/long-term debt instruments | Original maturity |
| 4.13 Additional comments and explanations on Debt Instrument Classification/Coverage | SDR allocations are included starting from 2009Q3. |
| 5.0 Valuation and Basis of Recording | |
| 5.1 Main valuation method for debt securities (in main table) | Market Value |
| 5.2 Main valuation method for debt securities (in memorandum items) | Not reporting debt securities in memorandum items. |
| 5.3 Other methods and weights used for valuation of debt securities | The general principle is to use the market values. |
| 5.4 Basis for compiling external debt statistics | Accrual Basis |
| 5.5 Inclusion of accrued interest costs that are not paid | Yes |
| 6.0 Data sources/Compiling Organizations | |
| 6.1 Main data source(s) for the external debt statistics | Data are obtained on a quarterly basis from the BoE’s Statistics Department questionnaires of enterprises (other sectors) and credit institutions, from the Public Sector Financial Statements Database held by the Ministry of Finance (government sector), from the BoE’s Financial Department (monetary authorities). The major part of data on stocks of debt securities are obtained from the ESCB’s Centralised Securities’ Database (CSDB). These data sources are supplemented by data from the ITRS by using perpetual inventory method. |
| 6.2 Link(s) to national website where the external debt statistics are being disseminated | http://statistika.eestipank.ee/?lng=en#treeMenu/MAKSEBIL_JA_INVPOS/414 |
| 6.3 Link(s) to relevant metadata that currently exists and is consistent with your external debt statistics | http://dsbb.imf.org/Pages/SDDS/DQAFBase.aspx?ctycode=EST&catcode=EXD00 |
| 6.4 Primary agency responsible for compiling external debt statistics | Bank of Estonia |
| 6.5 Primary agency responsibile for disseminating external debt statistics | Bank of Estonia |
| 7.0 Periodicity and Timeliness | |
| 7.1 Frequency of external debt statistics compilation | Quarterly |
| 7.2 Frequency of external debt statistics dissemination | Quarterly |
| 7.3 Timeliness of the publication of the external debt statistics | T+70 calendar days |
| 7.4 Additional comments on Periodicity and Timeliness | None |
| 8.0 Revision Policy | |
| 8.1 Data revision policy | Regular schedule - (i) when the statistics for Q1 and Q3 are first published, the statistics for the preceding quarter only; (ii) when the statistics for Q4 are first published, the statistics for Q1, Q2 and Q3 of the same year are adjusted. If necessary, the quarters of the previous two years may also be corrected, making up to 11 quarters in total; (iii) when the statistics for Q2 are first released, the data for Q1 and all the preceding quarters for which there are additional data are revised, for up to 17 quarters in total; (iv) after the completion of the quarterly balance of payments, the monthly balances of payments for that quarter are revised so that the total of the items in the balance of payments for the three months is equal to the total of the same items in that quarter’s balance of payments. More information: http://statistika.eestipank.ee/failid/mbo/pohimotted_eng.html |
| 9.0 Unit of Measure | |
| 9.1 Unit of Measure | Data are in USD. |
| 10.0 Reference Period | |
| 10.1 Reference Period | (i) Data are available starting from 1998Q1. (ii) Data reported by country on a 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis starting from 1998Q1. |
| 11.0 Table Reporting | |
| 11.1 Table 1 - Gross External Debt Position: by Sector (Prescribed component) | Yes |
| 11.2 Table 2 - Gross External Debt Position: Foreign Currency and Domestic Currency Denominated Debt (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.3 Table 3 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule for Outstanding External Debt as of End-Period: by Sector (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.4 Table 4-Gross External Debt Position:Principal and Interest Payments Due in 1 Yr or less -by Sector (Encouraged component) | No |
| 11.5 Table 1.1 - Gross External Debt Position: Debt Securities - Reconciliation of Nominal and Market Value | No |
| 11.6 Table 1.2 - Gross External Debt Position: Other Sectors | No |
| 11.7 Table 1.3 - Gross External Debt Position: Public Sector Debt and Publicly-Guaranteed Private Sector Debt | No |
| 11.8 Table 1.4 - Gross External Debt Position: Arrears by Sector | No |
| 11.9 Table 1.5 - Net External Debt Position: by Sector | No |
| 11.10 Table 1.6 - Gross External Debt Position: Reconciliation of Positions and Flows | No |
| 11.11 Table 2.1 - Gross External Foreign Currency and Foreign-Currency-Linked Debt Position | No |
| 11.12 Table 3.1 - Gross External Debt Position: Short-Term Remaining Maturity - by Sector | No |
| 11.13 Table 3.2 - Debt-Service Payment Schedule for Outstanding External Debt as of End-Period: by Sector and Instrument | No |
| 12.0 Metadata Update | |
| 12.1 Metadata last updated | 12/14/2016 |