Metadata
| Category: | Other producers of official statistics |
| Area: | ONAs |
| Survey / data collection: | Financial Soundness Indicators |
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| Reference metadata |
| 1. Contact |
| 2. Metadata update |
| 3. Statistical presentation |
| 4. Unit of measure |
| 5. Reference period |
| 6. Institutional mandate |
| 7. Confidentiality |
| 8. Release policy |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity |
| 11. Quality management |
| 12. Relevance |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability |
| 17. Data revision |
| 18. Statistical processing |
| 19. Comment |
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| 1. Contact Vrh | |
| 1.1. Contact organization: | Central Bank of Montenegro |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Sector for Financial Stability, Research and Statistics |
| 1.2. Contact organization unit: | Bulevar Sv. Petra Cetinjskog 6, 81000 Podgorica |
| 2. Metadata update Top | |
| 2.1. Metadata last certified: | 18-Aug-21 |
| 2.2. Metadata last posted: | 24 December 2025 |
| 2.3. Metadata last update: | 28-Nov-25 |
| 3. Statistical presentation Top | |
| 3.1. Data description: | Financial soundness indicators refer primarily to banks, and they represent relative values, i.e. ratios between different categories characteristic for the banking sector. |
| 3.2. Classification system: | In line with the IMF FSIs Compilation Guide 2019. |
| 3.3. Sector coverage: | Financial soundness indicators refer primarily to banks. Apart from that, a small segment of financial soundness indicators covers the real estate market. |
| 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions: | The survey is in line with the IMF FSIs Compilation Guide 2019. |
| 3.5. Statistical unit: | Banks in Montenegro. |
| 3.6. Statistical population: | Banks in Montenegro. |
| 3.7. Reference area: | Montenegro |
| 3.8. Time coverage: | For a vast majority of series: quarterly data since 2006. |
| 3.9. Base period: | n/a |
| 4. Unit of measure Top | |
| Percentage; basis points for one series | |
| 5. Reference period Top | |
| Quarter | |
| 6. Institutional mandate Top | |
| 6.1. Legal acts and other agreements: | Pursuant to the Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 18/12, 47/19, 23/25), Central Bank of Montenegro is the producer of official monetary and financial statistics. The collection and processing of data is done pursuant to the Law on Central Bank of Montenegro (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 40/10, 46/10, 6/13, 70/17 and 125/23), Law on Credit Institutions (Official Gazette of Montenegro, br. 72/19, 82/20, 8/21, 23/25) and Decision on Reports Submitted to Central Bank of Montenegro Official Gazette of Montenegro No 128/20). |
| 6.2. Data sharing: | IMF; Monstat for National Summary Data Page for eGDDS. |
| 7. Confidentiality Top | |
| 7.1. Confidentiality - policy: | Chapter V Statistical Confidentiality of the Regulation (EC) No 2232009 of the European Parliament and Council adopted on 11 March 2009 on the European Statistics regulates protection and transmission of confidential data in ESS and ESCB |
| 7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment: | Data is published on an aggregate, not individual basis. |
| 8. Release policy Top | |
| 8.1. Release calendar: | Data is published following the date defined in the official publication Calendar. The calendar is publicly available. |
| 8.2. Release calendar - access: | https://cbcg.me/en/statistics/release-calendar |
| 8.3. User access: | Data is available on the CBCG website, according to the release calendar and at the same time for all the users. |
| 9. Frequency of dissemination Top | |
| Quarterly | |
| 10. Accessibility and clarity Top | |
| 10.1. News release: | n/a |
| 10.2. Publications: | Data is published on the CBCG website, on https://cbcg.me/en/statistics/statistical-data/financial-soundness-indicators |
| 10.3. Online database: | n/a |
| 10.4. Micro-data access: | n/a |
| 10.5. Other: | Apart from the website of the CBCG, data is also available on an IMF webpage https://data.imf.org/en/datasets/IMF.STA:FSIC |
| 10.6. Documentation on methodology: domain: | IMF FSIs Compilation Guide 2019. https://www.imf.org/en/data/statistics/fsi-guide |
| 10.7. Quality documentation: | Operating procedures |
| 11. Quality management Top | |
| 11.1. Quality assurance: | Quality is ensured by the use of statistical concepts presented in the IMF FSIs Compilation Guide 2019. |
| 11.2. Quality assesment: | n/a |
| 12. Relevance Top | |
| 12.1. User needs: | n/a |
| 12.2. User satisfaction: | n/a |
| 12.3. Completeness: | n/a |
| 13. Accuracy and reliability Top | |
| 13.1. Overall accuracy: | n/a |
| 13.2. Sampling error: | n/a |
| 13.3. Non-sampling error: | n/a |
| 14. Timeliness and punctuality Top | |
| 14.1. Timeliness: | n/a |
| 14.2. Punctuality: | Data is published about month and a half after the reference period, in line with release calendar. |
| 15. Coherence and Comparability Top | |
| 15.1. Comparability - geographical: | Data is produced in line with the IMF FSIs Compilation Guide 2019. |
| 15.2. Comparability over time: | Data not fully comparable. More detailed explanations about it are given in excel file in which data is published: https://cbcg.me/en/statistics/statistical-data/financial-soundness-indicators |
| 15.3. Coherence - cross domain: | n/a |
| 15.4. Coherence - internal: | n/a |
| 17. Data revision Top | |
| 17.1. Data revision - policy: | n/a |
| 17.2. Data revision - practice: | n/a |
| 18. Statistical processing Top | |
| 18.1. Source data: | We use balance sheet and income statement data, as well as supervisory data. |
| 18.2. Frequency of data collection: | Quarterly |
| 18.3. Data collection: | Direct reporting by banks |
| 18.6. Adjustment: | n/a |
| 19. Comment Top | |
| n/a | |
