New CBBH Initiatives in Dissemination of Statistics

The Governor of the Central Bank of BH (CBBH) Peter Nicholl announced today, 19 May, 2003 that from Tuesday, 20 May 2003 CBBH will disseminate three new features on its web site (www.cbbh.ba).

First, an "advance release calendar" will be available that indicates the expected release dates of monthly monetary and other financial sector statistics, and quarterly balance of payments statistics for some periods ahead. This will assist users of statistics in being aware of future release times of data that may be of interest to them.

Governor Nicholl noted that the dissemination of an advance release calendar is in accordance with recommendations of the International Monetary Fund. This will be the first time that an advance release calendar has been disseminated for some official statistics for BH.

The second initiative announced by the CBBH Governor is that from 20 May 2003 the CBBH's will disseminate on its web site a long time series of detailed monetary and other available financial statistics, dating back to August 1997. This will make it easier for users to obtain such detailed data for past periods.

Monthly monetary and related financial data will in future be disseminated on the CBBH web site immediately they become available, rather than as in the past waiting for the next Bulletin to be published. This will result in much earlier release of monthly monetary statistics and so will benefit users.

According to the words of the Governor Nicholl, these several initiatives in dissemination of CBBH's statistics to be introduced tomorrow are in accordance with the practices of the world's leading central banks and reflect CBBH's continued efforts to improve and extend its statistical services to users.