Quarterly Bulletin Q3 2013

Notes
1. The permission of the Government has been obtained for the use in this Bulletin of certain
material compiled by the Central Statistics Office and Government Departments. The Bulletin
also contains material which has been made available by the courtesy of licensed banks and
other financial institutions.
2. Unless otherwise stated, statistics refer to the State, i.e., Ireland exclusive of Northern Ireland.
3. In some cases, owing to the rounding of figures, components do not add to the totals shown.
4. The method of seasonal adjustment used in the Bank is that of the US Bureau of the
Census X-11 variant.
5. Annual rates of change are annual extrapolations of specific period-to-period percentage
changes.
6. The following symbols are used:
e estimated
p provisional
r revised
q quarter
n.a. not available
. . no figure to be expected
– nil or negligible
f forecast
7. As far as possible, data available at end-June 2013 are included in the Statistical Appendix
(Section 3).
8. Updates of selected Tables from the Statistical Appendix, concerning monetary and financial
market developments, are provided in Money and Banking Statistics. Data on euro exchange
rates are available on our website at www.centralbank.ie and by telephone at 353 1 2246380.
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