Annual National Accounts

1. Annual National Accounts 1. Situation of OECD annual national accounts database 2. New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire Presented by Michèle Hainaut OECD National Accounts Experts Meeting 7-10 October 2003

2. 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.

3. 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 0303: additional employment breakdown by sector • New table 0801: non-financial accounts by sectors (simplified) • Table 2000: new cross-classification A17xPi6 • New table 2600: balance sheets for non-financial assets • Additional OECD requirements for capital stock data.

4. 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@oecd.org • European Member countries are asked to send the questionnaire to both OECD and Eurostat at the same time using the same Email. • sna.contact@oecd.org