In conducting the study on the details of the revision since mid-1997, the Bank has kept these developments in mind and examined whether the comments submitted meet such criteria as (1) appropriateness of statistical treatment and datarecording methods; and (2) the usefulness of revisions based on those comments. The Bank has also reviewed issues that were still undecided in the provisional proposals.
The Bank’s final decisions made through the above process are shown in tables, and this paper tries to explain the thinking behind them.15 Based on these final decisions, the Bank is now in the process of compiling the new statistics with a view to publishing them in 1999.