Quarterly sectoral accounts : report on the availability and timeliness of quarterly data

1. Quarterly sectoralaccounts : report on the availability and timeliness of quarterly data Joint WPFS-WPNA – 1st December 2010

2. Outline • Background • 2009 WPFS/WPNA discussion and follow-up • Financial quarterly accounts • Non-financial quarterly accounts

3. Background • The recent financial and economic crisis has highlighted the critical importance of relevant timely statistics internationally comparable statistics • It has exposed a significant lack of timely information on the institutional make-up of economies To fill this gap and to meet the growing demands of policy makers, the OECD Secretariat proposed at the 2009 WPFS-WPNA meeting a possible collection of quarterly sector data from OECD countries

4. Quarterly data availability • OECD Secretariat presentation on • currently available data on quarterly sector accounts • possibly available data in countries regarding non-financial and financial sector accounts • OECD Secretariat proposal • to send questionnaires to obtain more detail on the availability and timeliness of such data • to launch a first quarterly data collection in 2010

5. OECD countries’ reactions • Welcome of the OECD initiative • Agreement on the OECD proposal of collecting quarterly sector accounts • In particular, confirmation by the IMF Delegate, on behalf of the IAGEFS, that this proposal is exactly what is asked by the IAGEFS • Highlighting of the importance for the G20 of the availability of integrated Balance Sheets for all sectors

6. Follow-up • Questionnaires to be sent to non-EU countries depending on their replies to the survey on availability and timeliness • Consultation with Eurostat to collect EU quarterly sector accounts data • Consultation with ECB to collect Euro Area quarterly financial accounts data (to be validated by ECB before transmission to OECD)

7. Financial quarterlyaccounts EUROSTAT DATA COLLECTION Quarterly data on Government sectors • for EU countries and Norway (i.e 21 OECD countries) plus Estonia • on both a consolidated and a non-consolidated basis for S13 • on a consolidated basis for S1311, S1312, S1313, S1314 • on financial transactions and on financial stocks for • instruments F1, F2, F5 and F7 • sub-instruments F331, F332, F34, F41, F42, F61, F62 • from 1998 Q4 onwards for stocks and from 1999 Q1 onwards for transactions (as requested in the regulation) OECD can download these data from Eurostat website

8. Financial quarterlyaccounts ECB EURO AREA DATA COLLECTION Quarterly data for all sectors • Agreement to enhance the ECB dissemination policy by transmitting to OECD the quarterly financial accounts of EA countries • No direct contact with countries in case of anomalies • First transmission end January 2011 (through Eurostat) Non-consolidated transactions and positions EA countries From the first quarter of 1999

9. Financial quarterlyaccounts ECB EURO AREA DATA COLLECTION Quarterly data for all sectors • A selection of sectors and sub-sectors • sectors S1, S11, S13, S14+S15 and S2 • sub-sectors S121+S122, S123+S124, S125 • Main financial assets and liabilities categories • instruments F1, F2 and F7 • mostsub-instruments :F21, F22+F29, F331, F332, F34, F41, F42, F511, F512+F513, F52, F61, F611, F612, F62 As a consequence, itwill not be possible for OECD to deriveannual EU countries data fromquarterly data

10. Financial quarterlyaccounts ECB/EUROSTAT COLLECTION FOR OTHER EU COUNTRIES Quarterly data for all sectors • Eurostat will not request quarterly financial accounts from non EA countries • Non EA countries are encouraged to transmit their quarterly accounts to ECB IN THAT CASE • OECD will send them the same questionnaire as for non EU countries (Gesmes/Excel transmission?)

11. Financial quarterlyaccounts OECD DATA COLLECTION FOR NON-EU COUNTRIES • A number of non-EU OECD countries are in a position to provide OECD with quarterly data • Same coverage for annual and quarterly financial accounts and balance sheets data for 5 countries (Australia, Canada, Korea, Norway, USA) • Work in progress in 2 countries for either transactions or stocks (Chile, Mexico) • No quarterly data available for 5 countries (Iceland, Israel, New Zealand, Switzerland and Turkey) • No reply from one country (Japan)

12. Financial quarterlyaccounts NEXT STEPS • Collection of quarterly data from Eurostat and ECB for most EU countries • BUT the difference in coverage between annual and quarterly accounts will prevent the OECD to derive annual accounts from quarterly data • Collection of quarterly data from non-EU countries and possibly non EA countries (same questionnaire as for annual data) • BUT non all countries cansupplythese data No disseminationof quarterlyfinancialaccount data Publication of relevant quarterlyindicators

13. Non-financialquarterlyaccounts Meta-questionnaire: • Sent to non-EU countries in April 2010 + 2 reminders • Simplified sector accounts (T119): • Generation of income account • Distribution of income account • Use of disposable income • Capital accounts • Data availability and timeliness surveyed Note: Annual data are already transmitted to the OECD by non-European countries in T119

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18. Non-financialquarterlyaccounts Data availability in non-EU countries: Out of the 12 countries surveyed: • 8 countries replied to the meta-questionnaire on QSA data availability: i.e. AUS, CHL, ISR, KOR, NZL, RUS, TUR and USA, of which: • 3 have detailed or partial QSA data • 3 have no QSA data • 4 countries did not reply: CAN, CHE,ISL, and JPN.

19. Non-financialquarterlyaccounts Results • AUS: • data from 1959Q3 at T+9 weeks • from Financial Accounts (T+12 weeks) • financial and non-financial corporations data • Capital accounts • USA: data from 1992Q1 at T+1 or 2 months • ISR: mainly general government data • CHL: planned for Q2 2011, start in 2005Q1 • KOR: only GFCF for general government • NZL, RUS, TUR: no QSA

20. Non-financialquarterlyaccounts Questions • CAN, CHE, ISL, JPN: fill the questionnaire? • AUS: part of non-financial QSA data were released in financial QSA with three weeks delay. Any reason? • USA: NIPA definitions->work on consistency with SNA93? • ISR: beginning period ? timeliness? sectors coverage to be extended ? • CHL: period coverage to be extended? (before 2005Q1) • KOR, NZL, RUS, TUR: any plan to develop QSA?

21. Non-financialquarterlyaccounts European countries • Since April 2010 an automatic data transmission (ESA table 0801) from Eurostat to OECD has been set up: • 11 countries (AUT, BEL, CZE, DNK, ESP, FIN, GRC, NLD, POL, PRT and GBR) at T +105 days (i.e. once data has been validated by Eurostat). • FRA, DEU, IRL, ITA, NOR, and SWE have not transmitted any QSA data: • FRA and DEU did not allowed transmission to OECD • IRL, ITA, NOR, and SWE: no formal response to Eurostat to authorize transmission

22. Non-financialquarterlyaccounts Missing OECD countries, next steps • In quest of formal agreement from Ireland, Italy, Norway, and Sweden allowing Eurostat for QSA transmission to the OECD. • Enquire France and Germany to send their publishable (non confidential) QSA data to OECD through the standard ESA table 0801 for all sectors. • Seek possibility of receiving QSA data from countries that have limited reporting obligations (Hungary, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Estonia), through formal agreement for Eurostat’s transmission to the OECD. • Ask the status of Luxembourg QSA data (availability and transmission to Eurostat)

23. Non-financialquarterlyaccounts Data dissemination, next steps • EU data received so far by the OECD is confidential: no dissemination outside of Statistics Directorate • For publishable data that have been already released at national level: • Allow internal dissemination to the Economics Department? • And to external users?

24. Non-financialquarterlyaccounts Future developments: • Continue cooperation with Eurostat (participation to bi-annual QSA Task Force) • Improve QSA data collection (timeliness, coverage, seasonal adjustment…) • Compile some comparable key variables/indicators (, i.e. saving rate, investment rate, profit share, …) with available data • Provide information for Principal Global Indicators website

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