SITUATION OF ANNUAL NATIONAL ACCOUNTS DATA AND METADATA IN 2010December 2010—La Muette

Esther Bolton

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ANNUAL NATIONAL ACCOUNTS SITUATION

Database provides consistent and comparable data

Chile, Slovenia, and Israel became members in 2010.

Data Availability: See table 1 in STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2010)25

Common OECD-Eurostat questionnaire is sent to sna.contact@oecd.org

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DATA TRANSMISSION

Include indication of changes to methodology with data transmission

Data to be provided in the format of the given questionnaire or countries to adopt SDMX format

Improvements in data transmission but still a lack of detailed data on fixed assets tables.

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DISSEMINATION OF DATA

Paper, OLISnet (OECD.stat) and Cd Rom

Currently three publications (paper and electronic):

1. Volume I, Main aggregates;2. Volume II, Detailed tables; 3. National Accounts at a Glance; indicator

approach, published since 2 years.

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METHODOLOGY

FISIM Allocated for all countries except Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Turkey

All OECD member countries, except Australia, compile accounts according to 1993 SNA

Australia has moved to 2008 SNA since December 2009.

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LINKAGES IN THE OECD ANA DATABASE :

For countries which have recently changed their methodology and therefore are sending shorter time series.

Users demand long and continuous time series

In consequence: countries are asked to specify any change in their methodology.

Secretariat will shortly link West Germany data with Germany after reunification data .

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ACCESSION COUNTRIES

3 countries became member of the OECD in 2010 :

Chile ( on 7 May), Slovenia (on 21 July) and Israel (on 7 September). These 3 countries have been included in all

Secretariat’s work : publications and database. Estonia was invited to become a member of

the OECD in May 2010. The Russian Federation is still in the process of

accession.

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ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT COUNTRIES

The OECD is engaging key global players in its work : Brasil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa.

In this regards National accounts questionnaires sent to Brasil, China, India, and South Africa in the last three months. And soon to Indonesia.

China is already sending GDP and population tables to the Secretariat

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ACCESS TO DATA

Access is free to NSOs and Governments : http://www.oecd.org/olisnet

OECD.stat enables to display any set of data from OECD databases

http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx

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IN SUMMARY : Send as much information /data as

possible Special effort to supply tables 2000

(fixed assets by industry and by type of assets) and 2600 (Balance sheet for non-financial assets)

The use of SDMX/NAWWE is highly recommended.

The Secretariat is investigating the feasibility of stream lining the processing of Eurostat data to free out resources to tackle Enhanced Engagement countries.

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