The comprehensive list of private non-bank enterprises, with some external debt outstanding and are eligible to be surveyed, currently accounts for about 4,600 enterprises. This population survey list was originally compiled based on private non-bank enterprises that recorded their foreign currency transactions through ITRS system as well as those corporate whose name appeared in BOT's own external debt survey database. Were there be any inconsistencies to arise, a crosschecking must be immediately made to all related enterprises, mostly by telephone, in order to reconcile the data. The other 15 enterprises were verified by phone that their external debt without foreign currency inflow have not incurred. In addition, BOT expanded the scope of survey to cover those external debt of new enterprises, which is also denominated in Baht.
Recent evidences suggest that more debt newly contracted is denominated mostly in Baht.
The whole survey processes involve collecting, verifying and compiling data and compiling the survey reports along with output tables. All the corresponding survey schedule would start from January 3 rd to April 5 th 2001, or 95 days altogether. Currently, BOT is attempting at it full effort to capture the mentioned data via launching another series of survey on International Investment Position as well as Foreign Investment through Custodian, Broker and Sub-Broker. With all data received from these new surveys, more complete pictures of external debt data and claims on non-resident would be obtained. These newly added names would eventually be incorporated into the existing surveyed population.