Quarterly Survey of Financial Assets and Liabilities, 2014-2022: Secure Access

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The Quarterly Survey of Financial Assets and Liabilities (FALS) collects information on the financial assets and liabilities held by companies, with the exception of financial institutions. (Financial Institutions are organisations such as banks and building societies and these provide data directly to the Bank of England). The data are mainly used in constructing the financial accounts for the non-financial corporations’ sector of the UK National Accounts and as an input into the compilation of the capital account of the UK Balance of Payments (the difference between imports and exports).Latest edition informationFor the fourth edition (September 2022), quarter 1 data for 2022 have been added to the study. 

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The survey collects information about: UK financial assets:London certificates of depositcertificates of deposit issued by building societiessterling treasury billsUK government securities (Gilts) commercial paper issued by UK companiesordinary shares issued by UK companiespreference shares issued by UK companiesmedium term notes issued by UK companiesother securities issued by UK companiesOverseas financial assets:current and deposit accounts with banks overseascommercial paper and certificates of deposit issued by overseas residentsordinary shares issued by overseas residentsother securities issued by overseas residentsFinancial liabilities:advances and loans from banks overseas

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

Postal survey

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8251-4
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=2257e97717d459ddc6e85d96c404317d4e9ed8249c0aaf7b9da3ce5443046456
Provenance
Creator Office for National Statistics
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2017
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Economics; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage United Kingdom