Economic statistics - 01.11.1993, Page 7

I. Short-Term Indicators
Table 1. Short-Term Indicators
Change
from
Jan.-Aug. Jan.-Sept. prev. year’1
Trade and payments21 1992 1992 1993 1992 Millions ofkrónur 1993 1992 1993 Percent
11 Value of exports, f.o.b 87833 62133 59239 70662 68261 -5.3 -3.4
12 Value of imports, c.i.f 96895 62950 57475 74456 65307 -11.8 -12.3
13 Trade balance -9062 -817 1764 -3794 2954
14 Net foreign exch. purch. of the banking system .. Treasury31 4090 3530 -3500 5939 -4380
21 Treasury revenue 103447 65256 64903 72433 71710 4.3 -1.0
22 Treasury expenditure 110607 72965 73994 82262 83311 1.7 1.3
23 Treasury financial balance -7175 -11069 -11808 -12679 -14339
231 Central Bank financing -3033 -8068 56 -4497 -881
232 Other 10208 19137 11752 17176 15220
Money -endofperiod stock figures
31 Central Bank gross reserves 32015 34857 32885 30649 29401
32 Net foreign assets of the banking system 34466 36247 36735 32386 32026
33 Moneysupply, M1 29942 30011 31213 30409 31298 14.6 2.9
34 Money and general savings deposits, M2 116801 117349 118195 117045 116529 3.7 -0.4
35 Broad money, M3 (M2 + time deposits) 154101 150943 159919 151244 159482 7.4 5.4
36 Deposit money bank lending & foreign funds relent 199584 192051 209364 192234 211002 3.4 9.8
37 Deposits in deposit money banks 150509 147691 156455 148189 156129 7.5 5.4
38 Liquid position of deposit money banks Exchange rate of U. S. $ vis-a-vis lcelandic króna 16796 20132 18460 20045 Krónur per $ 18834
41 Period average 57.68 57.30 66.32 56.95 66.69 —4.2 17.1
42 End of period Weighted average rate offoreign currency (1983= 100) 64.00 52.79 70.81 Indices 53.90 69.34 -9.1 28.6
43 Period average 285.01 284.09 303.36 283.92 305.11 0.1 7.5
44 End of period Prices - latest vatues in the given time periods 296.50 283.09 319.01 281.25 317.83 -0.8 13.0
51 Costofliving (May 1988=100) 161.2 161.4 169.2 161.3 169.8 2.0 5.3
52 Building cost (July 1987=100) 188.2 188.8 192.5 188.8 194.8 1.3 3.2
53 Credit terms (June 1979=100) Unemployment-period average 3218 3234 3307 Percent 3235 3330 1.6 2.9
6 Unemployment as percentage of the labour force Production and demand 3.0 2.5 2.7 Thousands 2.7 3.4 of metric tons
71 The fish catch 1539 1112 1235 1192 1390 50.7 16.6
711 Demersal species 560 430 403 471 445 -12.0 -5.6
712 Capelin 795 609 775 641 882 221.0 37.5
713 Other 184 73 57 80 64 42.4 -19.9
72 Production of aluminium 90 59 61 67 69 1.4 3.5
73 Production of diatomite 20 13 12 14 14 -18.3 -2.8
74 Production of ferro-silicon 51 40 42 44 47 34.6 7.8
75 Saleofcement 97 66 55 77 66 -9.9 -14.3
1) l.e. latesí period for which figures are shown. Change from the same period or date in the previous year. 2) Monthly figures in 1992 are con-
verted to the exchange rate in the same period in 1993. 31 Cash basis.
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