The Regional Accounts System of the EU

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The Regional Accounts System of the EU

• Andreas Krüger (Eurostat)

Eurostat - Unit C2National Accounts - production
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Structure of the presentation

• ESA95 Legal basis
• Key elements
• Who does what?
• Available data
• Quality Monitoring
• Future Developments
• Conclusions

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ESA95 Legal basis

• Council Regulation No. 2223/1996
• Chapter 13 Basic definitions for Regional
  Accounts
• Annex B Obligatory data transmission programme
  (Regional accounts Tables 1000, 1200 and 1300)
• Methodological Recommendations published
  separately

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Key elements

• Same concepts and definitions as on national
  level
• Common rules and definitions on basic issues
• Common data transmission programme
• GVA compilation Mostly production, some income,
  but no expenditure approach
• No obligation for using specific sources or
  regionalisation methods
• Only current prices but some NSIs have also COP

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Who does what?

• National Statistical Institutes (NSIs)
• Primary data collection
• Data compilation at regional levels NUTS1-NUTS3
• Transmission of data to Eurostat in national
  currency
• Eurostat
• Validation of data received
• Conversion into and PPS
• Estimation of regional GDP
• Calculation of per-inhabitant figures and 3-year
  averages
• Development work

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Available data (1)

• Regional level NUTS 2 (254 units in the EU-25)
• GVA, compensation of employees, employment (total
  and employees) in persons, GFCF for 17 industries
• Regional GDP (calculated by Eurostat)
• Primary income of households Property income
  (paid and received), operating surplus/mixed
  income, compensation of employees
• Secondary distribution of household income Taxes
  on income/wealth, social contributions, social
  benefits, other current transfers (paid and
  received)

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Available data (2)

• Regional level NUTS 3 (1213 units in the EU-25)
• GVA at 3 industries
• Employment (total and employees) in persons for 3
  industries
• Regional GDP (calculated by Eurostat)

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Quality Monitoring

• Quality reporting project (1999-2005) led by CBS
  Netherlands
• Future quality monitoring
• Lighter, but more regular and accessible
• Concentrates on accuracy and comparability
• Inventories
• Quality standards difficult

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Future Developments

• More focused data transmission programme GVA in
  A6, employment in hours worked
• Regular calculation of regional growth rates
  (voluntary)
• Quality monitoring
• Methodological work Extra-regio, FISIM, growth
  rates

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Conclusions (1)

• What helps to make good regional accounts
• Up-to-date business register with local KAUs
• Detailed Structural Business Statistics
• Access to appropriate administrative data
• Regional classification
• Regions that are comparable in population
• Stability over time Avoids breaks

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Conclusions (2)

• Lessons learnt
• Dont estimate variables at too much regional
  detail
• Protect regional classification against political
  pressure
• Dont be too ambitious (example regional FISIM)
• If resources dictate priorities, go first for
  GVA, then household accounts and GFCF

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• Contact Andreas.Krueger_at_cec.eu.int

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