Publications

Information provided by each company to the Central Balance-Sheet Database (CBSD) is confidential; only aggregated data may be released; individual data may only be accessed by the corresponding company: Corporate and Sector Table (Portuguese acronym: QES; in Portuguese only).

Banco de Portugal publishes aggregate statistics based on data submitted by non-financial corporations in Chapter G of the Statistical Bulletin and in Sector Tables  (available in the multidimensional analysis of BP stat | Statistics online).

The Bank’s contributions to international databases (BACH and European Sectoral References) are also available online. 

The Central Balance-Sheet Studies are aimed at the dissemination of studies and analysis based on the Central Balance-Sheet database of Banco de Portugal.

Methodologies underlying the treatment of CBSD data are presented in “Central Balance-Sheet Studies | 1, November 2010 – Enterprise and Sector Tables”, “Central Balance-Sheet Studies | 6, December 2011 – New Enterprise and Sector Tables, Adapting the Accounting Normalization System”, Supplements to the Statistical Bulletin n.º 5/2005 and n.º 1/2008, in the methodological document on Statistics on Non-Financial Corporations from the Central Balance-Sheet Database - see Methodological documents - and Booklet n.º 7 of Banco de Portugal.