ACRONYM DESCRIPTION
% Percentage
Euro
€STR Euro Short-Term Rate
12MMA 12-month moving average rate of change
4QMA 4-quarter moving average rate of change
AAR Annualized agreed rate
ACAP Automobile Association of Portugal
APRC Annual percentage rate of charge
AR Annual rate of change
ARC Annual rate of change
ASF Autonomous services and funds
ATM Automated teller machines
B€ Billions of euros
BdP Banco de Portugal
BIS Bank for International Settlements
BoA Balance of answers
BPM6 6th edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual
BRICS Geographic aggregate composed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
CAE Portuguese Classification of Economic Activities (from the Portuguese: Classificação Portuguesa das Atividades Económicas)
CB Central bank
CDIS Coordinated Direct Investment Survey
CEDIC Special certificates of public debt
CET1 Common equity Tier 1
CFIML Captive financial institutions and money lenders
CFP Portuguese Public Finance Council
CG Central government
COGSMC Costs of goods sold and material consumed
Cons Consolidated data
CPI Consumer price index
CPIS Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey
CPLC Community of Portuguese Language Countries
CR Chain rate of change
CSFC Credit securitization funds and corporations
CYOY Cumulative year-on-year rate of change
DD Direct debit
DGAEP Directorate-General of Administration and Public Employment
DGAL Directorate-General of Local Government
DI Disposable income
DI - DIE Direct investors in direct investment enterprises
DIE - DI Direct investment enterprises in direct investors
DREM Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira
EA Euro Area
EAGGF European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
EBITDA Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation
ECB European Central Bank
EDP Excessive deficit procedure
EERI Effective exchange rate index
EMCF European Monetary Cooperation Fund
EO Budgetary Entity
ERC Exchange rate changes
ERDF European Regional Development Fund
ERM Exchange rate mechanism
EUROSTAT Statistical office of the European Union
ESA European System of Accounts
ESCB European System of Central Banks
ESF European Social Fund
ETF Entity of Treasury and Finance
EU European Union
EURIBOR Euro Interbank Offered Rate
FA Financial auxiliaries
FC Financial corporations
FGED Foreign gross external debt
FNED Foreign net external debt
FSIs Financial soundness indicators
GCF Gross capital formation
GDP Gross domestic product
GFCF Gross fixed capital formation
GG General Government
GPEARI Office for Economic Policy and International Affairs
GVA Gross value added
HCPI Harmonized consumer price index
HH Households
HNPISH Households and non-profit institutions serving households
IBS International banking statistics
IC Insurance corporations
ICPF Insurance corporations and pension funds
ICSF Composite indicator of financial stress 
IES Simplified Corporate Information (from the portuguese: Informação Empresarial Simplificada)
IF Investment funds
IGCP Portuguese Treasury and Debt Management Agency
IGF Inspectorate-General of Finance
II MTSSS Institute of Informatics of the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security
IIP International Investment Position
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMM Interbank Money Market
INE Statistics Portugal
IO International Organizations
IPI Industrial production indices
ITENF Quarterly survey to non-financial corporations (from the Portuguese: inquérito trimestral a empresas não financeiras)
LG Local government
Liab Liabilities
LISBOR Lisbon Interbank Offered Rate
LT Long-term
M€ Millions of euros
M1 Monetary aggregates M1
M2 Monetary aggregates M2
M3 Monetary aggregates M3
MFI Monetary financial institutions
MGDD ESA Manual on Government Deficit and Debt
MMF Money market funds
MRO Main Refinancing Operations
MU Monetary Union
MV Market value
n.i.e. not included elsewhere
NCB National Central Bank
NCons Non-consolidated data
NFC Non-financial corporations
NMFI Non-monetary financial institutions
NMS Non-monetary sector
NPISH Non-profit institutions serving households
NPL Non-performing loans
NSS National Statistical System
NUTS Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
OAJ Other adjustments
OCVP Other changes in the volume and price
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OFI Other financial intermediaries
OMFI Other monetary financial institutions
PC Price Changes
PETROGAL Petróleos de Portugal, Petrogal, S.A.
PF Pension funds
POC Official Chart of Accounts (from the Portuguese: Plano Oficial de Contabilidade)
POS Point-of-sale terminal
pp Percentage points
PPI Producer price index
PRT Portugal
PSAC Portuguese-speaking African countries
PTE Portuguese Escudo
RA Reserve Assets
RC Rate of change
RG Regional government
RLG Regional and local government
ROA Return on assets 
RW Rest of the World
RWA Risk-weighted assets
SA Seasonally adjusted
SCA Seasonally and calendar effects adjusted
SDDS Special Data Dissemination Standard
SDR Special drawing rights
SEM European Monetary System
SEPA Single Euro Payments Area
SEPA B2B In the B2B component, payers/debtors cannot be household customers nor micro-enterprises
SEPA CORE In the CORE component, debtors/creditors may be households and/or corporations
SFF Social security funds
SICOI Interbank Clearing System
SITEME Portuguese Market Electronic Transfer System
SME Micro, small and medium corporations
SNC Accounting Standards System (from the Portuguese: Sistema de Normalização Contabilística)
SPE Special purpose entity
SREA Statistics Azores
SSF Social security funds
ST Short-term
STEP2 EBA CLEARING pan-European automated clearing house for bulk payments in euro
Stk Stock
SWDA Seasonally and working days adjusted
TARGET2 "Trans-european Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system 2"
TARGET2-PT Portuguese component of TARGET2
TB Treasury bills
TBA Annual base rate
TD3 Deposit rate of the 3 larger portuguese institutions
TdC Court of Auditors (from the Portuguese:Tribunal de Contas)
TE Total economy
Th€ Thousands of euros
TIR Template on International Reserves
Trans Transactions
ULCM Unit labour costs in the manufacturing sector
ULCT Unit labour costs in the total economy
USA United States of America
USD United States of America, Dollars
UTAO Technical Budget Support Unit of the Portuguese Parliament
XCT Cross-border credit transactions
YOY Year-on-year rate of change