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The purpose of this Manual is to support the production of methodologically sound and cross-country comparable monetary data. It provides a set of tools for identifying, classifying, and recording stocks and flows of financial assets and liabilities; it describes standardised, analytically oriented frameworks in which monetary statistics may be presented; and it identifies a set of analytically useful aggregates within those frameworks.

Assessment Methodology

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The generic Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) May 2012 serves as an umbrella for seven dataset-specific frameworks. The current May 2012 version of the DQAF is an update of the July 2003 version of the DQAF to reflect experience and international statistical developments, particularly updated international methodological standards.