The Central Bank of Brazil disseminates balance of payments data as a service to the public. Identification of internal government access to data before release Advance access is not provided to any official outside the Central Bank of Brazil. There is no ministerial commentary. As a rule, the most important revisions are completed by the end of the first six months of the year following the year to which the data refer to. Nevertheless, other revisions may occur when necessary to improve the quality of the information and are disseminated in the Monthly Bulletin of the Central Bank.
Data are final in the second semester of following-year to the reference period.
Final data are published in the Central Bank Bulletin. The public are informed of major changes in methodology at the time the changes are introduced. The Press Release contains explanatory notes which put in evidence, besides other things, a comparison between the previous version of the balance of payments and the new one, which follows the BPM5 methodology. Data sources are also mentioned in the explanatory note. The Central Bank Annual Report also publishes data on the balance of payments in a more detailed way when compared with the Bulletin.