Czech Republic joins IMF’s SDDS Plus statistical standard

Czech Republic joins IMF’s SDDS Plus statistical standard (joint report of the Czech National Bank, the Czech Statistical Office and the Czech Ministry of Finance)

4 April 2016

On 4 April 2016 the Czech Republic joined eight other countries that have satisfied the criteria required by the International Monetary Fund’s SDDS Plus (Special Data Dissemination Standard Plus) statistical initiative. SDDS Plus is aimed at publishing high-quality, transparent and internationally comparable macroeconomic data, expanded to include financial stability indicators to address data gaps identified during the recent global crisis.

Contacts:

Czech Statistical Office: Petra Báčová, CZSO spokeswoman, mobile phone No: (+420) 778 727 232, e-mail: petra.bacova@csu.gov.cz

Czech National Bank: Marek Zeman, Director of the External Public Relations Department, media@cnb.cz

Czech Ministry of Finance: Michal Žurovec, Head of the External Public Relations Department, tiskove@mfcr.cz