Institution

Eurostat

Year

1999

Level

Intermediate

Abstract

The purpose of this manual is to present a methodological approach to obtaining meaningful regional figures on government transactions and units belonging to the government sector. Even if it is not possible totally to regionalise the transactions of general government, useful data for regional analysis can still be provided. The methodology set out in this document describes the problems and outlines how to solve them. However, it is neither intended nor possible totally to prescribe a method which can be applied uniformly everywhere. The financial, legal, cultural and institutional settings vary from one country to another, and each country's statisticians must find appropriate solutions in adopting this methodology to the domestic situation.