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18.26. Other concepts of the DSD are not fixed, such as the “counterpart area”, which is used to identify the territory of the non-resident entity of individual time series. The country code list in the counterpart area follows the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) classification and is a “cross-domain” code list. The codes used for various regional groupings were harmonized across international agencies that use the BOP-DSD, wherever possible.
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