Financial and Business Statistics - Illustration

Federal Reserve Bulletin, June, 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
FSLIC   Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
G-7     Group of Seven
G-10    Group of Ten
GNMA    Government National Mortgage Association
GDP     Gross domestic product
HUD     Department of Housing and Urban
          Development
IMF     International Monetary Fund
IO      Interest only
IPCs    Individuals, partnerships, and corporations
IRA     Individual retirement account
MMDA    Money market deposit account
MSA     Metropolitan statistical area
NOW     Negotiable order of withdrawal
OCD     Other checkable deposit
OPEC    Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OTS     Office of Thrift Supervision
PMI     Private mortgage insurance
PO      Principal only
REIT    Real estate investment trust
REMIC   Real estate mortgage investment conduit
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.