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Data Change: Bulgaria - Government debt - Redenominated
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020 10:20 ET
By Jason Flynn
Summary
March 2020 -- For government debt for Bulgaria, concurrent with dissemination of results for January 2020, the source has changed the reporting currency from euros to levs (three monthly series 2001 to 2019, replaced from 2020).
Detail

In a direct communication, the source confirmed:

The information on the debt and guarantees of the Central Government subsector in the monthly bulletin from January 2020 will be published in national currency (Bulgarian Lev - BGN), in order to ensure comparability and consistency of the data provided to international institutions such as Eurostat, IMF, etc.

Active dataset properties:

  • Measurements: Millions of Bulgarian levs (Mil. BGN)
  • Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
  • Native frequency: Monthly
  • Start date: 2020m1

In response, we have:

  1. Discontinued existing series (2001m12 to 2019m12) by marking metadata as "discontinued" and segregating in the catalog.
  2. Created one-for-one replacement series.

The active series reside in the historical catalog:

  • Bulgaria » Government » Debt

and include, for example:

  • GVLCGVDTUM.IBGR = Government finance: Central government debt - Total, (Mil. BGN, NSA)
  • GVECGVDFUM.IBGR = [DISCONTINUED] Government Finance: Central government debt - External, (Mil. EUR, NSA)
Other
Related ReleaseGovernment Debt
SourceMinistry of Finance
FrequencyMonthly
GeographyBulgaria
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