The advantages of data-sharing: the use of mirror data and administrative data to improve the estimation of household external assets/liabilities
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Issue Date
2020
Physical description
36 p.
Abstract
La compilación de los activos y pasivos financieros de los hogares en la balanza de pagos (BP)/posición de inversión internacional (PII) es considerada generalmente como un gran desafío que los compiladores de estadísticas tienen que abordar. Cuando se pretende diseñar un sistema de declaración directa para este sector institucional, se encuentran numerosas limitaciones en términos de complejidad, cobertura y precisión. Esto genera la necesidad de encontrar otras alternativas o fuentes de información complementarias que permitan mejorar las estimaciones, de forma que se asemejen lo máximo posible a la realidad. En este sentido, el intercambio de datos entre instituciones y países puede desempeñar un papel muy importante. Esta nota presenta la experiencia española buscando una mejora en la producción regular de las estadísticas oficiales exteriores sobre transacciones y posiciones financieras de los hogares, basando la compilación no solo en los datos recogidos en primera instancia por los compiladores de la BP/PII, sino también en otras fuentes disponibles que aportan información complementaria. Se presenta la utilidad de las fuentes de datos espejo y de los datos administrativos, que contienen información sobre activos y pasivos exteriores de los hogares, materializados en diferentes instrumentos financieros: depósitos, préstamos, reservas técnicas de seguros de vida, valores y bienes inmuebles.
Compiling the financial assets/liabilities of households in the balance of payments (b.o.p.) / international investment position (i.i.p.) is commonly considered as one of the most challenging issues faced by statisticians. This is in light of the multiple limitations of this institutional sector when a direct collection system is designed in terms of complexity, coverage or accuracy. Therefore, it is necessary to find other alternatives or complementary information to enhance the estimation of these data with the aim of making them as real as possible. This is when data-sharing among institutions and countries can play an important role. This paper presents the Spanish experience working towards an improvement in the regular production of official external statistics regarding transactions and positions of households, not subject to the sources of information collected in first instance by the compiler but using all available sources of information and taking advantage of its complementarity. The paper will present the usefulness of mirror data sources and administrative data going through different financial instruments held/taken abroad by this sector: deposits, loans, life insurance technical reserves, securities and real estate.
Compiling the financial assets/liabilities of households in the balance of payments (b.o.p.) / international investment position (i.i.p.) is commonly considered as one of the most challenging issues faced by statisticians. This is in light of the multiple limitations of this institutional sector when a direct collection system is designed in terms of complexity, coverage or accuracy. Therefore, it is necessary to find other alternatives or complementary information to enhance the estimation of these data with the aim of making them as real as possible. This is when data-sharing among institutions and countries can play an important role. This paper presents the Spanish experience working towards an improvement in the regular production of official external statistics regarding transactions and positions of households, not subject to the sources of information collected in first instance by the compiler but using all available sources of information and taking advantage of its complementarity. The paper will present the usefulness of mirror data sources and administrative data going through different financial instruments held/taken abroad by this sector: deposits, loans, life insurance technical reserves, securities and real estate.
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Notas Estadísticas / Banco de España, 13
Subjects
Datos espejo; Activos/pasivos de los hogares; Fuentes de información; Banca; Internacional; Intercambio de datos; Cuenta financiera; Posición de inversión internacional; Mirror data; Household assets/liabilities; Data sources; International banking; Datasharing; Financial account; International investment position; Finanzas internacionales; Métodos Econométricos y Estadísticos; Economía del consumo y del ahorro; Economía internacional; España
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