| 1/ The SDDS prescribes the dissemination of quarterly external debt data with one-quarter lag, covering four sectors. Direct Investment: Intercompany Lending should preferably be disseminated separately from the four sectors. Data are to be further broken down by maturity--short-term and long-term--on an original maturity basis and by instrument. The classifications by sector (general government, central bank, other deposit-taking corporations, except the central bank, and other sectors) and by instrument presented in the table are consistent with those set forth in the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6), and defined in the Pre-Publication Draft of the 2013 External Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (the Guide). 2/ Specify whether debt securities are valued at nominal or market value. Debt securities in memoradum items are valued at market value if they are presented at nominal value in the table, or at nominal value if they are presented at market value in the table. Debt securities in the memorandum items do not include those that may be included in Direct Investment: Intercompany Lending. 3/ It is recommended that all currency and deposits be included in the short-term category unless detailed information is available to make the short-term/long-term attribution. 4/ Other debt liabilities comprise insurance, pension, and standardized guarantee schemes, and other accounts payable–other in the international investment position (IIP) statement. In the absence of information to make the short-term/long-term attribution, it is recommended that insurance, pension, and standardized guaranteed schemes be classified as long term. 5/ Arrears are recorded in the original debt instrument, rather than in other debt liabilities, short-term, and separately identified by sector in memorandum items. See recording of arrears in paragraph 3.43. 6/ In line with BPM6, SDR allocations should be reported as long-term external debt liabilities. |