Bank of Lithuania

Statistical data developed, compiled and disseminated by the Bank of Lithuania complies with the quality requirements of international organisations.

Transparency and publicity

The process of statistical data compilation, dissemination and development complies with practices, principles, concepts and methodologies, adopted on national and international level, that are established in documents provided on the Bank of Lithuania, ECB and international organisations’ websites.

Significant changes to the methodology are timely published on the Bank of Lithuania website. The revision of statistical data complies with the statistics revision schedule. The Bank of Lithuania publishes statistical data in accordance with the data release calendar.

Accuracy and reliability

In line with the Council regulation concerning the collection of statistical information by the ECB and the Law on the Bank of Lithuania, the Bank of Lithuania implements statistical reporting requirements, imposed by the ECB on euro area reporting agents, and sets national statistical reporting requirements for Lithuanian respondents. It uses statistical reporting data, the quality of which it verifies, and other most reliable and highest-quality source data. The Bank of Lithuania increasingly uses its micro-data databases in order to improve the quality of statistics and minimise the statistical reporting burden for economic entities.

Quality assessment reports

Quality assessment report on financial accounts – statistics underlying the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure indicators as provided by Lithuania (249.9 KB download icon)

Quality assessment report on b.o.p/i.i.p – statistics underlying the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure indicators as provided by Lithuania (301.7 KB download icon)

Links to statistical quality principles

Public commitment on European Statistics by the ESCB 

ECB Statistics Quality Framework

IMF Data Quality Assessment Framework

CMFB Quality reports concerning statistics underlying the MIP indicators

Last update: 07-12-2021