摘要:Monetary and financial stability constitute prime objec-tives for central banks. Monetary policy decisions aretaken on the basis of information concerning develop-ments in a number of economic and financial indicators.It is important that these indicators are reliable at anearly stage, i.e. that they have good real-time properties,so that they can provide relevant input for interest ratedecisions. Norges Bank releases financial and monetarystatistics on a monthly and quarterly basis. These statis-tics form part of the input upon which the Bank's mone-tary policy decisions are based1. Among the statisticsare quarterly financial accounts for households and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH), whichare compiled in the database system FINSE (FINancialSEctor accounts)