| 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 |