Financial and Business Statistics

Guide to Tables

SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS

c         Corrected
e         Estimated
n.a.      Not available
n.e.c.    Not elsewhere classified
p         Preliminary
(r)       Revised (Notation appears in column heading
            when about half the figures in the column have
            been revised from the most recently published
            table.)
*         Amount insignificant in terms of the last decimal
            place shown in the table (for example, less than
            500,000 when the smallest unit given is in millions)
0         Calculated to be zero
...       Cell not applicable
ABS       Asset-backed security
ATS       Automatic transfer service
BIF       Bank insurance fund
CD        Certificate of deposit
CMO       Collateralized mortgage obligation
CRA       Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
FAMC      Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
FFB       Federal Financing Bank
FHA       Federal Housing Administration
FHLBB     Federal Home Loan Bank Board
FHLMC     Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
FmHA      Farmers Home Administration
FNMA      Federal National Mortgage Association
FSA       Farm Service Agency
FSLIC     Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
G-7       Group of Seven
G-10      Group of Ten
GDP       Gross domestic product
GNMA      Government National Mortgage Association
GSE       Government-sponsored enterprise
HUD       Department of Housing and Urban
            Development
IMF       International Monetary Fund
IOs       Interest only, stripped, mortgage-backed securities
IPCs      Individuals, partnerships, and corporations
IRA       Individual retirement account
MMDA      Money market deposit account
MSA       Metropolitan statistical area
NAICS     North American Industry Classification System
NOW       Negotiable order of withdrawal
OCDs      Other checkable deposits
OPEC      Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OTS       Office of Thrift Supervision
PMI       Private mortgage insurance
POs       Principal only, stripped, mortgage-backed securities
REIT      Real estate investment trust
REMICs    Real estate mortgage investment conduits
RHS       Rural Housing Service
RP        Repurchase agreement
RTC       Resolution Trust Corporation
SCO       Securitized credit obligation
SDR       Special drawing right
SIC       Standard Industrial Classification
TIIS      Treasury inflation-indexed securities
VA        Department of Veterans Affairs

GENERAL INFORMATION

In many of the tables, components do not sum to totals because of rounding.

Minus signs are used to indicate (1) a decrease, (2) a negative figure, or (3) an outflow.

"U.S. government securities" may include guaranteed issues of U.S. government agencies (the flow of funds figures also include not fully guaranteed issues) as well as direct obligations of the U.S. Treasury.

"State and local government" also includes municipalities, special districts, and other political subdivisions.