| Table Name | Greece |
| 1.0 Contact Information | |
| 1.1 Name | Theoklitos Vasiliadis |
| 1.2 Designation (Job Title) | Statistician Analyst |
| 1.3 Organization | Bank of Greece |
| 1.4 Mailing Address | 21 E. Venizelos Avenue |
| 1.5 Country | GREECE |
| 1.6 Email | tvasiliadis@bankofgreece.gr |
| 1.7 Telephone | +00302103203860 |
| 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 | Statistical cross checks are made between pure stock statistics used for the compilation of the IIP and BOP flows data collected from respondent banks and direct declarants such as custodians, resident stock brokers, mutual funds, and investment companies. An additional check is made using MFIs balance sheet statistics of the Monetary and Financial Statistics Division of the Bank of Greece. |
| 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 | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.5 Data coverage for Other financial corporations | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.6 Data coverage for Nonfinancial corporations | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.7 Data coverage for Households and nonprofit institutions serving households (NPISHs) | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 3.8 Data coverage for Direct Investment: Intercompany lending | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 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 | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 4.4 Data coverage for Trade credit and advances | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 4.5 Data coverage for Other debt liabilities | Not Applicable |
| 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 | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 4.8 Data coverage for Debt liabilities of direct investors to direct investment enterprises | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 4.9 Data coverage for Debt liabilities to fellow enterprises | Broadly covered (non-coverage insignificant) |
| 4.10 Arrears (including interest that accrues on arrears) reported in the same debt instrument | No - Separately identified in the memorandum items |
| 4.11 Arrears separately identified in the memorandum items | Yes |
| 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 | (i) SDR allocations are included from 2003Q2. |
| 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) | Nominal Value |
| 5.3 Other methods and weights used for valuation of debt securities | None |
| 5.4 Basis for compiling external debt statistics | Accrual Basis |
| 5.5 Inclusion of accrued interest costs that are not paid | Not Available |
| 6.0 Data sources/Compiling Organizations | |
| 6.1 Main data source(s) for the external debt statistics | The data are derived mainly from direct reporting (such as MFIs balance sheets, custodians data,) and ITRS, and supplemented by statistics from various departments of the Bank of Greece, other administrative and statistical sources, as follows:
• Direct investment Liabilities:ITRS, Athens Stock Exchange data, Annual FDI questionnaire, as well as information from press releases;
• Portfolio Liabilities: custodians data, Electronic Secondary Securities Market of Bank of Greece
• Other investment: MFIs balance sheets and ITRS data; |
| 6.2 Link(s) to national website where the external debt statistics are being disseminated | http://www.bankofgreece.gr/Pages/en/Statistics/sdds.aspx |
| 6.3 Link(s) to relevant metadata that currently exists and is consistent with your external debt statistics | http://www.bankofgreece.gr/Pages/en/Statistics/sdds.aspx |
| 6.4 Primary agency responsible for compiling external debt statistics | Bank of Greece |
| 6.5 Primary agency responsibile for disseminating external debt statistics | Bank of Greece |
| 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 | One quarter after the end of the reference period. |
| 7.4 Additional comments on Periodicity and Timeliness | None |
| 8.0 Revision Policy | |
| 8.1 Data revision policy | Regular schedule - Data are provisional when first released and are indicated as such. The data (quarterly) are revised continually, whenever new statistical information either from special annual questionnaires or from other sources becomes available, which after being checked is considered acceptable. Revisions may be also due to a break of series stemming from a change in methodology. |
| 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 2003Q2. (ii) Data converted through generic conversion from 2003 EDS Guide/BPM5 to 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis by the World Bank from 2003Q2 to 2003Q4. (iii) Data reported by country on a 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 basis starting from 2014Q1. (iv) As per 2013 EDS Guide/BPM6 methodology, data includes SDR allocations sourced from IMF (the creditor) for period 2003Q2 to 2013Q4, and reported by the country from 2014Q1 onward. |
| 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 | 9/4/2017 |