FRANKFURT, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank bought 16.381 billion euros ($14.61 billion) of public sector assets last week as part of its quantitative easing programme, above the 11.140 billion euros it purchased a week earlier, it said on Monday. The following table details the ECB's purchases in the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP), Asset Backed Securities Programme (ABS), Corporate Sector Purchase Programme (CSPP) and Covered Bond Purchase Programme 3 over the past eight weeks. The total represents the purchases in the four purchase programmes. All figures are in billions of euros. Reference Date PSPP ABS Covered bonds CSPP Total Sep 9 16.381 0.027 0.794 2.398 19.600 Sep 2 11.140 -0.074 1.526 1.164 13.756 Aug 26 10.312 -0.099 0.849 1.504 12.566 Aug 19 11.858 -0.051 0.321 1.603 13.731 Aug 12 11.364 -0.004 0.659 1.248 13.267 Aug 5 12.414 -0.069 0.746 1.764 14.855 Jul 29 16.452 0.149 0.593 1.365 18.559 Jul 22 17.453 -0.126 0.534 1.422 19.283 Jul 15 16.309 0.251 1.407 1.953 19.920 ($1 = 1.1214 euros) For more detail on the ECB's asset purchases, please click: here