Timeliness Ten days after the week ending Monday for the data on monetary aggregates. Nine days after the reference Wednesday for the data on bank credit. Two months after the end of reference month for the data on the gross foreign claims and liabilities of the banking sector. Data on the monetary aggregates are published every Thursday, and data on bank credit every Friday. Data from individual respondents are confidential.
Information submitted by any individual respondent is protected by law from unauthorized disclosure.
Aggregate data derived from the reports of all respondents may be published or otherwise publicly disclosed only in a manner which will not reveal the amounts reported by any individual respondent. Copies of the Federal Reserve Act are available from Federal Reserve Board's Publications Section. Statistical Policy Directive Number 3, which sets the standards for the compilation, release, and evaluation of these indicators. The Directive designates statistical series that provide timely measures of economic activities as Principal Economic Indicators and requires prompt release of these indicators. The intent of the directive is to preserve the time value of such information, strike a balance between timeliness and accuracy, prevent early access to information that may affect financial and commodity markets, provide for the fair and orderly release of these sensitive data, and preserve the distinction between policy-neutral release of data by statistical agencies and their interpretation by policy officials.