Explanatory Notes to the Current Statistics - RBI - Reserve Bank of India
Explanatory Notes to the Current Statistics
Table No. 1 1.2 & 6: Annual data are averages of months. Table No. 2 2.1.2: Include paid-up capital, reserve fund and Long-Term Operations Funds. Table No. 4 Maturity-wise position of outstanding forward contracts is available at http://nsdp.rbi.org.in under ``Reserves Template’’. Table No. 6 For scheduled banks, March-end data pertain to the last reporting Friday. Table Nos. 7 & 11 3.1 in Table 7 and 2.4 in Table 11: Include foreign currency denominated bonds issued by IIFC (UK). Table No. 8 NM2 and NM3 do not include FCNR (B) deposits. Table No. 9 Financial institutions comprise EXIM Bank, SIDBI, NABARD and NHB. Table No. 17 2.1.1: Exclude reserve fund maintained by co-operative societies with State Co-operative Banks Table No. 24 Primary Dealers (PDs) include banks undertaking PD business. Table No. 30 Exclude private placement and offer for sale. Table No. 32 Exclude investment in foreign currency denominated bonds issued by IIFC (UK) and foreign currency received under SAARC SWAP arrangement. Foreign currency assets in US dollar take into account appreciation/depreciation of non-US currencies (such as Euro, Sterling and Yen) held in reserves. Foreign exchange holdings are converted into rupees at rupee-US dollar RBI holding rates. Table No. 34 1.1.1.1.2 & 1.1.1.1.1.4: Estimates. Table No. 35 1.10: Include items such as subscription to journals, maintenance of investment abroad, student loan repayments and credit card payments. Table No. 36 Increase in indices indicates appreciation of rupee and vice versa. For 6-Currency index, base year 2010-11 is a moving one, which gets updated every year. Methodological details are available in December 2005 issue of the Bulletin. Table No. 37 Based on applications for ECB/Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCBs) which have been allotted loan registration number during the period. Table Nos. 38, 39, 40 & 41 Explanatory notes on these tables are available in December issue of RBI Bulletin, 2012. Table No. 43 1.3: Pertain to multilateral net settlement batches. Detailed explanatory notes are available in the relevant press releases issued by RBI and other publications/releases |