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Relative importance of payment instruments: 2002

(percentage of total number of national transactions)

This table contains a restricted set of payment statistics covering payments by instruments of non-MFIs in the euro area. The data refer to the percentage of transactions with each instrument in comparison with the total number of transactions per non-euro area country for the specified reference year.

	EU¹⁾	Euro area²⁾	BG	CZ	DK	LV	LT	HU	PL	RO	SE	GB
Legend: - related data do not exist or are subject to statistical confidentiality · data are not yet available
Notes: The EU total covers the countries which were members of the EU at the time to which the statistics relate. The euro area total covers the EU Member States that had adopted the euro at the time to which the statistics relate. Card payments, except with e-money cards (cards issued in the reporting country).
1. Credit transfers	28.62	31.69	87.85	66.72	24.47	82.62	64.82	58.68	80.23	72.71	37.99	17.38
2. Direct debits	23.36	24.95	5.41	27.80	15.72	0.22	1.52	22.78	0.36	5.60	10.37	19.75
3. Card payments³⁾	31.75	27.64	6.68	5.44	54.51	17.08	30.35	18.24	19.04	12.83	51.41	42.22
4. E-money purchase transactions	0.55	0.72	-	-	0.82	-	3.28	-	-	-	0.06	-
5. Cheques	14.96	13.98	0.00	0.04	4.48	0.08	0.04	0.00	0.36	8.78	0.17	20.65
6. Other payment instruments	0.80	1.07	0.06	-	-	-	-	0.29	-	0.08	0.00	-

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