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Long-term Research Agenda

This website is a clearinghouse, serving the global statistical community, for information about issues identified as outside the scope or timeframe for the update of the 1993 SNA to be completed in 2008. Its goal is to facilitate work toward resolution of these issues over a longer timeframe.

The website shows the open-ended list of issues on the long-term research agenda. For each issue, there is a description of the issue, links to selected relevant documents, and a contact person. The contact person, whose e-mail address is listed, can be consulted for more information and about any ongoing work. These entries may be updated from time to time as the issues evolve.

To propose an additional issue to be placed on the long-term research agenda, please send your description of the issue to sna@un.org using the subject line 'Long-term research issues'. UNSD as Secretariat of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts (ISWGNA) will forward the issue to the ISWGNA for its consideration.


Issues on the long-term research agenda
1. Reverse transactions
2. Debt concessionality
3. Clarification of income concept in the SNA - should holding gains be included?
4. Final consumption of corporations 
5. The relationship of SNA and IASB
6. High inflation
7. Accrual interest in the SNA - the debtor or creditor approach?
8. Equity valuation and its implications
9. Provisions
10. Distinction between current maintenance and capital repairs 
11. Broadening the fixed asset boundary to include other intellectual property assets
12. Treatment of Private-Public Partnerships
13. Consolidation, both for government and private enterprise groups 
14. Wider use of fair value for loans 
15. Recognition of social security entitlements as liabilities 
16. Leases to exploit natural resources such as mineral deposits
17. Reinvested earnings
18. Output of central banks: taxes and subsidies on interest rates applied by central banks
19. Inclusion of international organizations in the SNA
20. Government social services