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Measuring the Services of Commercial Banks in the National Income and Products Accounts - Changes in Concepts and Methods in the 2013 Comprehensive Revision (USA)

Administrator2 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:53:57 GMT

As part of the 2013 comprehensive revision of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs) to be released in July, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will change its methods for measuring implicitly priced services produced by commercial banks.

This article details the improved methods that will enable the NIPAs to better reflect the level and composition of the implicitly priced services (hereafter implicit services) that commercial banks provide.

Custodian: Bureau of Economic Analysis, USA

A volume index for the output of the Dutch banking industry based on quantity indicators - Netherlands (2007)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:11:22 GMT

This pilot study is the first in a series of attempts by Statistics Netherlands to find alternative indicators to deflate the production value of branches of the service industry in cases where deflation by standard methods is problematic. Banking has been singled out since on the one hand it has a large value added while on the other hand the specific character of a large share of its production value (FISIM) rules out the standard deflation procedure. Consequently, less conventional methods are necessary here.

Custodian: Statistics Netherlands

Supply and use tables in current and constant prices for the Netherlands: an experience of fifteen years - Netherlands (2000)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:06:05 GMT

Fifteen years ago before the production of this paper, Statistics Netherlands had started experimenting compiling simultaneously input/output tables in both current and constant prices. The first tables (of the industry by industry type) were rather limited of scale (200 x 100). Five years later, the system developed into a full-fledged set of supply and use tables describing 250 industries by 800 products. This paper concentrates on the ten years experience in compiling supply and use tables in The Netherlands. It focuses on the features that have become the main elements of the Dutch system. Three subjects can be distinguished here: the simultaneous compilation in current prices and constant prices; the column-row-column working procedures; and the transformation of supply and use tables into an industry by industry I/O-table.

Custodian: Statistics Netherlands

Concentration ratios for businesses by industry in 2004 - UK

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:53:59 GMT

This article provides detailed information and statistics produced by the ONS covering UK concentration ratios for business by industry based on the Input-Output Annual Supply and Use Tables.

These statistics provide users with an estimate of the economic importance of relatively large businesses in each industry. The focus of this article is on concentration ratios, changes that have taken place, and the extent of the concentration. This article is not about the competitive nature of the market structure. Concentration ratios can also provide information regarding industry's competitiveness and the scope for the economies of scale.

The estimates in this article are consistent with those published in the 2006 Blue Book, 2006 Pink Book and 2006 Input-Output Analyses publications.

Custodian: Office for National Statistics UK

Import penetration of goods and services, 1992-2004 - UK

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:49:16 GMT

This article provides detailed information and statistics produced by the ONS covering imports of goods and services based on the Input-Output Supply and Use Tables.

The data for these analyses have been derived from the 1992-2004 Input-Output Annual Supply and Use Tables published by the ONS in August 2006.

Custodian: Office for National Statistics (ONS) - UK

Compiling the national accounts demystified - Netherlands (2007)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:13:18 GMT

In this paper, the national measurement process underlying national accounts statistics is described and discussed. For non-national accountants, the compilation of national accounts statistics is usually a mystic and incomprehensible process.The literature on national accounts compilation methods and the reliability of national accounts statistics is very limited. The value added of this paper in view of current literature is therefore manifold:
– It demonstrates the importance of the operational model.
– It provides a systematic account of the various steps in compiling national accounts statistics.
– It clarifies the role of accounting identities, assumptions and plausibility checks.
– It discusses the role of environmental factors like skills, resources and policy.
– It puts the issue of the reliability of national accounts statistics in a general context, stresses the importance of sensitivity analysis and downplays the importance of indicators for margins of error.
– Concrete proposals for improving compiling the national accounts are put forward.

Custodian: Statistics Netherlands

Singapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSIC) 2010

Administrator — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:25:06 GMT

The Singapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSIC) provides the basic framework for the classification of economic activities. The Singapore Department of Statistics has implemented SSIC 2010 in the National Accounts. Macro‐economic statistics will be compiled and provided in accordance with SSIC 2010 with effect from the Annual Economic Survey of Singapore 2011.

Custodian: Department of Statistics of Singapore

Slovenian Gross National Income inventory

Administrator — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:17:33 GMT

The content of this publication from the Special publications series is an inventory of sources and methods of gross national income compilation that has been drafted according to the requirements of the Council Regulation No 1287/2003 which demands that Member States provide the European Commission (Eurostat) with an inventory of the procedures and basic statistics used to calculate gross national income and its components according to European System of Accounts 1995.

Custodian: The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Regional accounts inventory - Slovenia

Administrator — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:14:37 GMT

Regional accounts are part of the European System of Accounts (ESA 95). With national accounts they share the concepts of calculating statistical indicators which are used by competent organizations to assess the economic situation and to make appropriate decisions. Regional accounts data support decision-making at the level of regional policy, the purpose of which is to reduce social and economic disparities among the EU Member States and their regions. Welfare and economic development potential of regions can vary; therefore, well-balanced regional policy, the basis of which is the territorial regulation, is necessary for reducing the disparities.

Custodian: The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Inventory of sources and methods for price and volume measures in national Accounts - Slovenia

Administrator — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:08:47 GMT

The main purpose of the compilation of national accounts aggregates at constant prices, i.e. the compilation of price and volume measures, is to provide indicators of economic activity from which the effect of price changes has been removed. This enables the analysis of the growth and development of an economy, the recording and analysis of cyclical movements and the drawing up of projections for the future. Volume indices of main national accounts aggregates are among the most important macroeconomic aggregates and essential for the assessment of past economic developments and for the drawing up economic policies.

Custodian: The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

GNI inventory - Italy

Administrator — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:45:43 GMT

The compilation of National Accounts is a complex process built up to meet the need for an ever more complete representation of national economies and, at the same time, to the need for an estimate of Gross National Product (GNP) as harmonized as possible across EU. The publication of the inventory offers to all the users of macroeconomic data the opportunity of delving into estimation methods of GNP and its components following the three approaches of production, income and expenditure, into procedures aimed at assuring the exhaustiveness of the estimates, into techniques ensuring the consistency of estimates obtained using independent approaches, and into the sources and the classifications actually adopted. Methods, sources and classifications presented here have been employed for the general revision of estimates which, assuming year 2000 as a benchmark, have been compiled and issued by Istat from December 2005.

Custodian: ISTAT - ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI STATISTICA (Italy)

Business Activity Survey (BAS) - Timor‐Leste

Administrator — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:37:35 GMT

This is the first ever Business Activity Survey (BAS) in Timor‐Leste, constituting an important landmark in the understanding of the development of the country's business sector. The results of the BAS give the Government a clear picture of the performance and composition of the nonpetroleum business sector and the size of its contribution to the national economy and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The Business Activity Survey comprises a sample of 1,220 out of approximately 4,260 businesses of the kind considered in this study. These non‐petroleum producing businesses are spread out across the country and mainly located in the major towns of each district. The BAS includes all public and private financial enterprises (banks and insurance companies) as well as all public and private non‐financial businesses, with a few major exceptions: general government agencies (administration, health, education etc) and agricultural production and other informal economic activities conducted by households. So‐called not‐for‐profit institutions (NGOs, charities, churches etc) were surveyed only if they earned more than 50 per cent of their incomes in 2010 from trading activities. Estimates of the economic contribution of subsistence farming and other informal economic activities can be made based on data previously collected in household surveys.

Custodian: Direcção Nacional de Estatística - Timor-Leste

Impact Assessment Revised ESA - The Netherlands

Administrator — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:22:58 GMT

This paper gives a short description of all the issues and new recommendations of the 2008 SNA/new ESA and their potential effect on the Dutch GDP/GNI. The recommendations which truly affect GDP/GNI are discussed more extensively and their impact is quantified as good as is currently possible. It should be mentioned explicitly here that the impact estimations are provisional. The final figures will only become available in 2014.

Custodian: Statistics Netherlands, National accounts department

The Situation of the Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong Economy

Administrator — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:48:37 GMT

Financial services, trading and logistics, tourism, and producer and professional services are the Four Key Industries in the Hong Kong economy. They have been the driving force of Hong Kong's economic growth, providing impetus to growth of other sectors, and creating employment. This article analyses statistics showing the economic contribution and employment situation in respect of the Four Key Industries.

Custodian: Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Hong Kong Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Administrator — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:44:06 GMT

This publication gives a detailed description on the concepts and definitions of the GDP and GNP in Hong Kong. Data sources and methods for compiling the GDP by expenditure approach and production approach as well as GNP are also covered. Besides, it contains annual and quarterly series of GDP and GNP at current prices and in chain volume terms.

Custodian: Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Cuentas Nacionales Base 2005 - Colombia

Administrator2 — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:36:03 GMT

El propósito de esta publicación es dar a conocer a los usuarios los principales cambios metodológicos incorporados en la base 2005 de las cuentas anuales, entre otros: el método de cálculo de las cuentas a precios constantes, la revisión del tratamiento convencional de los Servicios de Intermediación Financiera Medidos Indirectamente (SIFMI), el tratamiento del gravamen a los movimientos financieros, la metodología utilizada para calcular la variación de existencias, el consumo final de los hogares, la matriz de empleo, la producción de alquileres de vivienda, el consumo de capital fi jo del gobierno, así como también presentar los principales resultados de las cuentas del año 2005 y su comparación con los de la base 2000.

(The purpose of this publication is to introduce users to the main methodological changes incorporated in the base 2005 of the annual accounts, among others: the method of calculation of constant price accounts, revision of the conventional treatment of Intermediation Services Indirectly measured (FISIM), treatment of tax on financial transactions, the methodology used to calculate the change in inventories, household final consumption, the array of employment, rental housing production, the use of financial capital jo government, as well as present the main results of the accounts of 2005 and its comparison with the base 2000.)

Custodian: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - Colombia

Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures, United States and Canada, 2002 to 2009

Administrator2 — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:20:37 GMT

This paper provides the latest annual results for the U.S./Canada purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditure indexes in the U.S. compared with Canada for the period 2002 to 2009. Revisions to previously published data and an update using the most recent US and Canada expenditure data from the National Accounts and in-depth price comparisons for 2005 are incorporated. The paper provides a primer on purchasing power parities and related measures and why they are important in international comparisons of economic performance. It also describes a new projection methodology for total economy measures that are now based on Gross Domestic Income and shows the impact of this change on the data.

Custodian: Statistics Canada

Revisions and the Income and Expenditure Accounts - Canada

Administrator2 — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:13:16 GMT

This paper provides some background information on revisions within the Income and Expenditure Accounts as well as a detailed revisions analysis of the quarterly real growth rate of GDP. The analysis of revisions strives to ascertain if preliminary estimates have been significantly different from the final estimate, thereby indicating reliability needs to be improved. The revisions analysis presented here looks at the behaviour of the revisions to quarterly real GDP growth rate for the period 1981 to 2007 with the objective of determining if a significant bias exists.

Custodian: Statistics Canada

Pakistan National Accounts

Administrator2 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:56:23 GMT

Information brochure about National Accounts estimation in Pakistan.

Custodian: Federal Bureau of Statistics Pakistan

Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung 2008 Lichtenstein

Administrator2 — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:44:56 GMT

Zweck dieses Kapitels ist es, Hintergrundinformationen über die Methodik und die Qualität der vorliegenden Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung zu bieten. Dies ermöglicht es, die Aussagekraft der Ergebnisse besser einzuschätzen.
Der Abschnitt über die Methodik orientiert zunächst über Zweck und Gegenstand der Statistik und beschreibt dann die Datenquellen und die Datenaufarbeitung. Danach folgen Angaben über die Publikation der Ergebnisse.
Der Abschnitt über die Qualität basiert auf den Vorgaben von Eurostat über die Qualitätsberichterstattung und beschreibt
Relevanz, Genauigkeit, Aktualität, Pünktlichkeit, Kohärenz und Vergleichbarkeit der statistischen Informationen.

Custodian: Amt für Statistik Lichtenstein

Rebasing of Singapore’s National Accounts to Reference Year 2005

Administrator2 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:54:20 GMT

This information paper reports the rebasing of Singapore’s national accounts to reference year 2005. The estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at constant prices will now be expressed in terms of prices prevailing in 2005. The rebasing exercise also serves to reconcile the different estimates of GDP and provides the occasion for methodological and conceptual reviews and improvements. The paper presents and explains the various methodological changes and improvements, in particular, the implementation of the recommendations in the United Nations System of National Accounts, on the estimation and allocation of implicit charges for financial services. Their consequent impact on the GDP estimates is presented and analysed.

Custodian: Statistics Singapore

Singapore National Accounts Compilation

Administrator2 — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:18:13 GMT

General sources and methods used for compiling the national accounts, covering data sources, scope and institutional arrangements.

Custodian: Statistics Singapore

Mexico: Metodologia de los Censos Economicos 2004

Administrator2 — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:16:53 GMT

This document presents the results of the economic census for 2004 in Mexico.

Custodian: INEGI Mexico

Intangible capital in the Netherlands: A benchmark

Administrator2 — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:15:38 GMT

This paper comprises a first attempt to provide a comprehensive measure on spending on intangible capital in the Netherlands.

Custodian: Statistics Netherlands

Measuring capital in the Netherlands

Administrator2 — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:14:33 GMT

At Statistics Netherlands the development of productivity statistics is addressed as a key field of interest. The recent national accounts revision at Statistics Netherlands was taken as an opportunity to improve capital stock and depreciation statistics. The Perpetual Inventory Method, as now applied at Statistics Netherlands, provides in a consistent way statistics on depreciation, the net capital stock, the productive capital stock and capital services. Further, much attention has been given to estimating average service lives and discard patterns of different asset types based on direct capital stock observations in the manufacturing industry. This paper presents the main features of this new system.

Custodian: Statistics Netherlands