In Chile, the Foreign Direct Investment Statistics are elaborated by the Central Bank of Chile according to the Bank's Constitutional Organic Law (COL) of 1989. The COL establishes that Central Bank compiles and disseminates macroeconomic statistics for analysis and decision making as part of its functions. Nevertheless, other institutions public or private are able to elaborate FDI statistics. The main differences between FDI statistics disseminated by the Central Bank and the reports published by DIRECON are methodology and sources.