KEY EURO INDICATORS NOW ON THE INTERNET
Nø 7298 - 21 September 1998
Updated regularly
europa.eu.int
From today, Eurostat - the Statistical Office of the European Communities in Luxembourg - is issuing around 100 key short-term indicators relating to Economic and Monetary Union free of charge on its Internet server
(http://europa.eu.int/eurostat.html).
Mr Yves-Thibault de Silguy, Commissioner responsible for economic, monetary and financial affairs, says: "The Euro indicators will provide Member States, the European Central Bank, national central banks, financial markets, enterprises, the media and the public with the latest EMU statistics essential for decision-making.
Updates of the indicators are made at noon enabling everyone to obtain the very latest information available on the short-term evolution of the euro zone".
Publication by Eurostat is a further step in its mission to offer the EU a high-quality statistical service.
Indicators covered include:
National accounts statistics (GDP, private and government final
consumption, gross fixed capital formation)
Monetary & financial indicators (money supply growth, three-month
interest rates, long-term government bond yield, ECU yield curve, stock market capitalisation)
External trade (imports, exports, trade balance)
Balance of payments
Prices (HICPs, producer price index for industry)
Industry (industrial production, industrial turnover)
Labour market (employment, unemployment)
Public finance (government deficit, debt, investment expenditure)
Short-term qualitative surveys (indicators on economic sentiment, on
industrial, construction, retail trade and consumer confidence).
For each indicator there is the reference period and data for both the euro zone and EU15. Metadata and definitions, how the Euro-11 aggregate is calculated and country weights are also presented. Graphs and tables on the development over the last periods are also available.
Four key indicators, HICPs, unemployment rates, deficit and debt as % of GDP are also presented by Member State.
National data and historic series are available in the Eurostat database New Cronos, which can be accessed through the Eurostat Data Shop network
(http:/europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/servfr/part8/8c.htm).
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