Financial and Business Statistics - Illustration

Federal Reserve Bulletin, Dec, 2000

Guide to Tabular Presentation

SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS

(c)      Corrected
(e)      Estimated
n.a.     Not available
(p)      Preliminary
(r)      Revised (Notation appears on column heading
           when about half of the figures in that column
           are changed.)
*        Amounts insignificant in terms of the last decimal
           place shown in the table (for example, less than
           500,000 when the smallest unit given is
           millions)
0        Calculated to be zero
...      Cell not applicable
ATS      Automatic transfer service
BIF      Bank insurance fund
CD       Certificate of deposit
CMO      Collateralized mortgage obligation
CRA      Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
FFB      Federal Financing Bank
FHA      Federal Housing Administration
FHLBB    Federal Home Loan Bank Board
FHLMC    Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
FmHA     Farmers Home Administration
FNMA     Federal National Mortgage Association
FSA      Farm Service Agency
FSLIC    Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
G-7      Group of Seven
G-10     Group of Ten
GDP      Gross domestic product
GNMA     Government National Mortgage Association
HUD      Department of Housing and Urban
         Development
IMF      International Monetary Fund
IOs      Interest only, stripped, mortgage-back securities
IPCs     Individuals, partnerships, and corporations
IRA      Individual retirement account
MMDA     Money market deposit account
MSA      Metropolitan statistical area
NOW      Negotiable order of withdrawal
OCDs     Other checkable deposits
OPEC     Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OTS      Office of Thrift Supervision
PMI      Private mortgage insurance
POs      Principal only, stripped, mortgage-back securities
REIT     Real estate investment trust
REMICs   Real estate mortgage investment conduits
RHS      Rural Housing Service
RP       Repurchase agreement
RTC      Resolution Trust Corporation
SCO      Securitized credit obligation
SDR      Special drawing right
SIC      Standard Industrial Classification
VA       Department of Veterans Affairs

GENERAL INFORMATION

In many of the tables, components do not sum to totals because of rounding.

Minus signs are used to indicate (1) a decrease, (2) a negative figure, or (3) an outflow.

"U.S. government securities" may include guaranteed issues of U.S. government agencies (the flow of funds figures also include not fully guaranteed issues) as well as direct obligations of the Treasury.

"State and local government" also includes municipalities, special districts, and other political subdivisions.