Annual National Accounts

1. Annual National Accounts 1. Situation of OECD annual national accounts database 2. New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire 3. co-operation between Eurostat and OECD 4. Metadata 5. COFOG2 Project 6. NAWWE Project Working Party on National Accounts 3-5 October 2007 ( Catherine La Rosa, Russel Penlington )

2. 1. Situation of OECD annual national accounts database • Joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire for the transmission of data • EU OECD countries should send their data to both organisations. • Information should be added to data when changes of definition or mix of definitions in the same file. • Availability of data (see table pages 3-4) • Improvements in completeness, timeliness and coverage. • Significant weakness: tables 1400 and 2000. • Dissemination of data (paper, CD-ROM and OLISnet) • Volume 1 Main aggregates - in January, free access on Internet for all users.

3. 1. Situation of OECD annual national accounts database (ctd) • Volume 2 Detailed tables - in July – the electronic version covers, in addition, detailed non-financial accounts by sectors. Free access to officials via OLISnet, in OECD.STAT • Volume 4 General Government Accounts - in December –. Free access to officials via OLISnet, in OECD.STAT • OECD.STAT (via Olisnet) : daily updated • Methodological changes : • FISIM : • For most Member countries : FISIM allocated to industries and institutional sectors • Situation of UK (2008 ?), JPN (test), MEX, NZL, TUR ? • TUR SNA93 ?

4. 2. New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire • April 2007 : OECD sent the new questionnaire to non EU countries. • Old codes • August 2007 : Eurostat sent the new questionnaire to EU countries • New codes (new key family) • Some additional series compared to the April version sent by the OECD. • September 2007 : OECD sent a revised version of the new questionnaire to non EU countries • New codes • Additional series : tables 0117, 0800, 1100, A31 breakdown added to the A17 and A60

5. 2. New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire (ctd) • Receipt of new questionnaires : KOR, NZL, USA • OECD annual national accounts database • Structure already modified • Updates : KOR done, NZL and USA being process.

6. 3. Co-operation between Eurostat and OECD • Joint correspondence to EU countries • Treatment of table 0800 • Joint mission to London

7. 4. Metadata • General government metadata • Employment metadata

8. 5. COFOG 2 • Transmission of data : 12 EU OECD countries plus Norway • No transmission from non-EU OECD countries. • High interest from users • Focus on Health, Education and Social protection

9. 6. NAWWE Project Current situation: • In September 2007 the EuroStat data collections questionnaire was finalised. • NAWWE web site registry to save SMDX-ML URLs. Future work: • Update the final code lists and data structure definition files. • Transformation of SDMX-ML: CSV… • Visualisation tools for viewing national accounts data.

10. Recommendations • Data should be transmitted on the day the data are released by the Member country to our generic account sna.contact@oecd.org. • Special effort should be made to supply tables on fixed assets. • Non EU-OECD countries are asked to consider providing COFOG 2 data for Health, Education and Social protection. • European Member countries are asked to send the questionnaire to both OECD and Eurostat at the same time.