Central banks base their monetary policy on balance sheet data from banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, as well as from households, businesses, and parts of the government. These reports provide important information about behavior and developments in the respective sectors.

External sector statistics provide information on a country's economic relationships with the rest of the world. 

Data on the development of public finances in Germany can be found here. The key figures relevant to the European budgetary surveillance procedure, the “Maastricht deficit” and the “Maastricht debt level”, are also available for the euro area and the euro area countries.