1.1 | Brief Description of the Government Finance and Tax Statistical Databank |
This databank consists of two parts, with bank names GOVT (84 time series) and TAX (98 time series).
Data published in: (a) Yearbook of Financial Statistics of the Republic of China, Tables 1-3, 6-9, 13 (this is the part with bank name GOVT); (b) Yearbook of Tax Statistics, Republic of China, Tables 1-7, 10, 11, 26-30 (this is the part with bank name TAX).
Data released by: Department of Statistics, Ministry of Finance.
Data updated annually: around April for TAX, and September for GOVT. A small number of data in TAX are monthly data and being updated monthly.
In Chapters 2 and 4, we will list all retrieval codes of GOVT and TAX according to the Table order in their respective publications. In Chapters 3 and 5, the same retrieval codes are listed alphabetically.
We hope you may easily find the retrieval codes for the data you need in Chapters 2-5. However, it might be helpful if you are familiar with how we construct these retrieval codes. Generally speaking, each retrieval code has two parts:
(1) The first part consists of a certain English abbreviation to represent a particular "concept" in government finance and tax statistics. For example:
| NR | -- Net Revenues
| | NE | -- Net Expenditures
| | NCUR | -- Net Current Revenues
| | NCAR | -- Net Capital Revenues
| | NCUE | -- Net Current Expenditures
| | NCAE | -- Net Capital Expenditures
| | TX | -- Taxes
| | TXC | -- Commodity Tax
| | TINR | -- Net Revenues of Income Tax
| | TIGR | -- Gross Revenues of Income Tax
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(2) The second part is a "modifier" following an "@" sign and placed right behind the initial English abbreviation. These modifiers are usually some English abbreviations representing a certain category in government finance and tax statistics. For example, "DEF" represents "National Defense", "EDU" represents "Education Science & Culture", "SS" represents "Social Security", and INDI represents "individual". Therefore, NE@DEF is the retrieval code for " Net Expenditures of General Gov't - for National Defense", NE@SS is the retrieval code for " Net Expenditures of General Gov't - for Social Security", TXC@SUGAR is the retrieval code for " Commodity Tax - Sugar", etc.
