Monetary & Financial Statistics
Symbols and Conventions
Symbols
Almost all the tables within this publication have series codes, which have been created to identify uniquely some of the series. Most of the codes have seven letters/numbers and are designed to facilitate the identification of series. The first letter of each code signifies the area in the Bank responsible for this data, the second denotes the publication status and the third represents the frequency of that series (M for monthly, Q for quarterly and A for annual). The remaining four 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.
Symbols and conventions:
| BoE | Bank of England | FRN | Floating Rate Note | SDR | Special Drawing Rights |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product | TESSA | Tax-Exempt Special Savings Account | ISA | Individual Savings Account |
| SAYE | Save As You Earn | CGNCR | Central government net cash requirement | M4 private sector | All UK residents other than the public sector, and monetary financial institutions |
| NIB | Non-interest-bearing | LGNCR | Local government net cash requirement | o/w | of which |
| IB | Interest-bearing | PCNCR | Public corporations’ net cash requirement | nsa | not seasonally adjusted |
| £ | Sterling | PSNCR | Public sector net cash requirement | sa | Seasonally adjusted |
| FC | Foreign currency | PNFCs | Private non-financial corporations | Household sector | Previously - Personal sector |
| CDs | Certificates of deposit | MFIs | Monetary financial institutions | TBs | Treasury bills |
| CG | Central government | OFCs | Other financial corporations | BIS | Bank for International Settlements |
| LG | Local government | OPS | Other public sector (i.e. LG and PCs) | - | Nil or less than £0.5 million or 0.05% |
| PCs | Public corporations | ECGD | Export Credits Guarantee Department | .. | Data not available or are suppressed for reasons of confidentiality |
| PS | Public sector | # | Start or end of a series |
