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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

Use, misuse and proper use of national accounts statistics - Netherlands (2007)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:58:13 GMT

In this paper, the relevance of national accounts statistics and their underlying conceptual framework is investigated for their four roles: description and object of analysis, tool for analysis and forecasting, tool for communication and decision-making and input for alternative accounts, budgetary rules and estimates. For each role, the merits and limitations of national accounts statistics are described and discussed. Proper use should be stimulated by improving education and marketing and by supplementing national accounts with information about their meaning and reliability.

Custodian: Statistics Netherlands

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

Manual on sources and methods for ESA 95 financial accounts - Eurostat (2011)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:09:31 GMT

This re-edition of the 'Manual on sources and methods for the compilation of ESA95 financial accounts, 2nd edition' includes an update of the chapter on recommendations and the one on Switzerland and gives a comprehensive description of the latest national sources and methodologies. The aim of the manual is to provide assistance and support to compilers and analysts of financial accounts.

It is structured with a first chapter covering the basic concepts relating to financial accounts and then a chapter for each Member State, and also for Switzerland. The manual is in an electronic manual, and will therefore be updated when new information becomes available.

Custodian: Eurostat

Manual on quarterly non-financial accounts for general government - Eurostat (2006)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:00:22 GMT

The Manual on quarterly non-financial accounts for general government complements the already existing Manual on compilation of taxes and social payments on a quarterly basis (published in 2002). These manuals establish an inventory of sources and methods used for compiling short-term public finance statistics but do not recommend "best practice".

The compilation of the short-term public finance statistics is required by Commission Regulation (EC) 264/2000 of 3 February 2000 and by Regulation (EC) No 1221/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 June 2002.

The work on the Manual was undertaken with the help of the members of the Working Group on Short-term Public Finance Statistics.

Custodian: Eurostat

Manual on sources and methods for the compilation of ESA 95 financial accounts - Eurostat (2011)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:56:39 GMT

The 'Manual on sources and methods for the compilation of ESA95 financial accounts, 2nd edition' includes an update of the methodological background to financial accounts and gives a comprehensive description of the latest national sources and methodologies. The aim of the manual is to provide assistance and support to compilers and analysts of financial accounts. It is structured with a first chapter covering the basic concepts relating to financial accounts and then a chapter for each Member State, and also for Switzerland. The manual is in an electronic manual, and will therefore be updated when new information becomes available.

Custodian: Eurostat

Manual on sources and methods for the compilation of ESA95 financial accounts - Eurostat (2002)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:49:39 GMT

The "Manual on sources and methods for the compilation of ESA95 financial accounts" is a compilation of the methodological work achieved and it gives a comprehensive description of the new national sources and methodologies. From the beginning of the project the decision was taken to include not only the Member States of the European Union but also Norway and Candidate Countries. The contributors to this wide-ranging descriptive and methodological work believe that the Manual will provide assistance and support to compilers and analysts of financial accounts.

Custodian: Eurostat

Handbook on price and volume measures in national accounts - Eurostat (2001)

Administrator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:45:36 GMT

The Handbook provides a complete discussion of the issues of measuring prices and volumes in the national accounts. It discusses the general principles as well as the deflation of individual goods and services. It is fully consistent with the principles of the European System of Accounts 1995, and is intended to elaborate on those. The handbook provides a useful tool for Member States, candidate countries and other countries to improve the price and volume measures in their national accounts in a harmonized way.

Custodian: Eurostat

Handbook of National Accounting -- Handbook on Non-Profit Institutions in the System of National Accounts-UNSD (2003)

Administrator — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:13:14 GMT

Responding to the growing worldwide interest in the character and role of non-profit or civil society organizations, this publication provides guidelines for the development of a satellite account that presents detailed economic data on non-profit institutions within the framework of the System of National Accounts. The Handbook clarifies the definition of non-profit institutions and identifies a methodology for breaking out and aggregating the full range of non-profit institutions, both those currently reported in the SNA sector Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households and those assigned to other sectors. The proposed methodology also captures the contribution of volunteer labour utilized by non-profit institutions and suggests extensions to existing classification systems to differentiate more fully the various types of non-profit institutions.

Custodian: UNSD

Measuring Capital - OECD Manual: Measurement of Capital Stocks, Consumption of Fixed Capital and Capital Services-OECD (2001)

Administrator — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:54:02 GMT

The nature of capital and its contribution to production have long been contentious issues for economists and the measurement of capital is one of the more difficult tasks facing statisticians. This Manual serves to clarify the conceptual issues concerning stocks and flows of fixed capital and provides practical guidelines for estimation. The Manual also deals with the definition and measurement of "capital services" which measure the contribution of capital assets into the production process.

Custodian: OECD

Measuring Capital - OECD Manual - Second edition. OECD (2009)

Administrator — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:52:08 GMT

Capital - in particular of the physical sort - plays several roles in economic life: it constitutes wealth and it provides services in production processes. Capital is invested, disinvested and it depreciates and becomes obsolescent and there is a question how to measure all these dimensions of capital in industry and national accounts. This revised Capital Manual is a comprehensive guide to the approaches toward capital measurement. It gives statisticians, researchers and analysts practical advice while providing theoretical background and an overview of the relevant literature. The manual comes in three parts - a first part with a non-technical description with the main concepts and steps involved in measuring capital; a second part directed at implementation and a third part outlining theory and a more complete mathematical formulation of the measurement process.

Custodian: OECD

Handbook on Deriving Capital Measures of Intellectual Property Products-OECD (2010)

Administrator — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:48:57 GMT

The latest System of National Accounts (the 2008 SNA) explicitly recognises, for the first time, that expenditures on research and experimental development (R&D) should be recorded as capital formation. This is a natural extension to the 1993 SNA, which recommends recording many acquisitions of software and databases, mineral exploration, and entertainment, artistic and literary originals as capital formation, too. These products have a common characteristic, namely that their value reflects the underlying intellectual property they embody, which is why they are referred to collectively in this publication as intellectual property products (IPPs). But they also share another important characteristic: their measurement is not straightforward, and in the absence of clear guidance it is highly likely that estimates will not be comparable between countries. This Handbook is designed to provide that guidance by considering IPPs collectively, based on their common characteristics, by type, based on any specificities, such as data availability, and by detailed transaction - for example the valuation of IPPs that have been produced for internal use by their developers, the valuation of unsuccessful IPPs, and the production of IPPs produced and made freely available by government.

Custodian: OECD