External Trade of the Czech Republic
Notes on Publishing Results of External Trade Statistics | Contents |
Since September 2003, the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO) has changed the way of updating monthly results from monthly- to quarterly-based. That means that monthly data remain constant in the course of a quarter.
Updated data for the whole period from the beginning of a year will always be published together with preliminary data for the first month of the following quarter, i.e. updates are coming out in May (1st quarter), August (1st–2nd quarters), November (1st–3rd quarters), and February (1st–4th quarters). Updated and final data for the preceding year will be published together with updates for the 1st quarter (i.e. in May) and the 1st–2nd quarters (in August), respectively.
The following two notes apply to all tables of this publication – „External Trade of the Czech Republic in January to September 2003“:
2002 data are final, referring to 14 July 2003 closing date.
2003 data for January to September are updated, referring to 19 November 2003 closing date, for October are preliminary, referring to 19 November 2003 closing date, for November are preliminary, referring to 16 December 2003 closing date.
Unit value indices for imports and exports and terms of trade from the beginning of a year remain to be published on a monthly basis, and no updates are made.
Tables for individual quarters breaking external trade down into sections of SITC, Rev. 3, are no longer published monthly, but always together with quarterly updates.