Annual National Accounts

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Annual National Accounts

• 1. Situation of OECD annual national accounts
  database
• 2. New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat
  questionnaire
• Working Party on National Accounts
• 12-15 October 2004
• ( Michèle Hainaut )

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1. Situation of OECD annual national accounts
database

• Joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire for the
  transmission of data
• Availability of data (see table pages 4-5)
• Improvements in completeness, timeliness and
  coverage for tables 0101-0112.
• Significant weakness tables 0119, 0800 and 1400.
• Dissemination of data (paper, CD-ROM and OLISnet)
• Volume 1 Main aggregates - in January
  electronic version updated quarterly and free on
  the Internet.
• Volume 2 Detailed tables - in July the
  electronic version covers, in addition, detailed
  non-financial accounts by sectors.

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2. New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat
questionnaire

• Reorganisation several of the tables 0101-0112
  are merged.
• Suppression and reduction
• Tables 0113-0116, 0118, 0122-0127, 0119, 1400 are
  dropped
• Table 0800 transactions and sector detail are
  reduced.
• Extensions
• Table 0301-0303 A60 breakdown (ISIC Rev.3
  division)
• Table 0302 GFCF in construction
• Table 0303 additional employment breakdown by
  sector
• Table 0501 full COICOP 3-digits for households
• Table 2000 and 2200 new cross-classification A17
  (A60) x AN_F6
• New table 2600 balance sheets for non-financial
  assets
• Additional OECD requirements for capital stock
  data.

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Recommendations

• Special effort should be made to supply tables by
  institutional sectors and table on fixed assets.
• Data should be transmitted on the day the data
  are released by Member country sna.contact_at_oecd.or
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• European Member countries are asked to send the
  questionnaire to both OECD and Eurostat at the
  same time using the same Email.
• sna.contact_at_oecd.org