Below is a list of the symbols, abbreviations and prefixes used within the publication of statistics by the bank.

Symbols | Abbreviations | Prefixes

Symbols

-	Nil or Less Than £0.5million or 0.05%
..	Data not available or are suppressed for reasons of confidentiality
#	Start or end of this series
£	Sterling
US$	US Dollars

Abbreviations

BIS	Bank for International Settlements
BoE	Bank of England
bps	Basis Points
CDs	Certificates of Deposit
CG	Central Government
CGNCR	Central Government Net Cash Requirement
CMI	Central Monetary Institution
CP	Commercial Paper
deps	Deposits
DTI	Debt-to-income ratio
ECGD	Export Credits Guarantee Department
ECS	Exchange Cover Scheme
EEC	European Economic Community
EFTA	European Free Trade Area
EMU	European Monetary Union
ERI	Exchange Rate Indices
EU	European Union
EURIBOR	European Inter Bank Offered Rate
Ext	External
FC	Foreign Currency
FISIM	Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured
FRA	Forward Rate Agreement
FRN	Floating Rate Note
FSA	Financial Standards Authority
GC	General Collateral
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
Household Sector	Previously Personal Sector
IB	Interest-bearing
IL	Index linked
IMF	International Monetary Fund
ISA	Individual Savings Account
LG	Local Government
LGNCR	Local Government Net Cash Requirement
LIBID	London Inter Bank Bid Rate
LIBOR	London Inter Bank Offered Rate
LTV	Loan to value
M3	Measure of Money Supply
M4	Measure of Money Supply
M4PS	M4 Private Sector
MFIs	Monetary Financial Institutions
NIB	Non-interest-bearing
NILO	National Investment and Loans Office
non-dep	Non deposits
NSA	Not Seasonally Adjusted
NSI	Not Separately Identified
o/w	Of Which
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OFCs	Other Financial Corporations (previously Other Financial Institutions (OFIs))
OMO	Open Market Operations
ONS	Office for National Statistics
OPS	Other Public Sector (ie LG and PCs)
PCNCR	Public Corporations' Net Cash Requirement
PCs	Public Corporations
PNFCs	Private Non-Financial Corporations (previously Industrial and Commercial Companies (ICCs))
PS	Public Sector
PSNCR	Public Sector Net Cash Requirement
repo	Sale and Repurchase Agreement
SA	Seasonally Adjusted
SAYE	Save As You Earn
SDR	Special Drawing Rights
SONIA	Sterling Overnight Index Average
TBs	Treasury Bills
TESSA	Tax-Exempt Special Savings Account

Prefixes

Series codes have been created to identify each series uniquely. The majority of series have seven letters/numbers, although there are some which are longer. All codes have a three letter prefix (listed below). The first letter of each code signifies the area in the Bank responsible for this data and the third represents the frequency of that series (M for monthly, Q for quarterly and A for annual). The second letter is an internal identifier. In some instances there is a fourth letter (A or L) that stands for average or level. The remaining letters/numbers are series-identifier codes.

Where these series are identical to National Statistics, the same series-identifying codes have been used. Some codes contain a suffix of further characters which identify breakdowns of a series, for example for country breakdowns.

CPQ

CPM

CFM

DPQ

IUQ

IUM

IUMA

IUQ

IUQL

LPM

LPQ

OCQ

RPA

RPM

RPW

PQM

PQQ

YWM

YWD

YWQ

YWW

XUMA

XUQL