The SDDS Guide for Subscribers and Users details commitments undertaken by a subscriber.
Subscribing countries commit to:
Disseminate the required data with the prescribed coverage, periodicity, and timeliness on their NSDPs.
Provide the IMF with an advance release calendar containing release dates for the current month and at least the following three months for each prescribed data category.
Provide detailed information about their statistical practices, or metadata, which are posted on the DSBB. The metadata follow the rigorous format of the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) which was developed by the IMF to assess the quality of countries’ economic and financial data.
Certify the accuracy of the metadata on an annual basis.