Transcript Quality Monitoring

The Regional Accounts System
of the EU
Andreas Krüger (Eurostat)
Eurostat - Unit C2
National Accounts - production
Structure of the presentation
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ESA95: Legal basis
Key elements
Who does what?
Available data
Quality Monitoring
Future Developments
Conclusions
ESA95: Legal basis
 Council Regulation No. 2223/1996
 Chapter 13: Basic definitions for Regional Accounts
 Annex B: Obligatory data transmission programme
(Regional accounts: Tables 1000, 1200 and 1300)
 Methodological Recommendations published
separately
Key elements
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Same concepts and definitions as on national level
Common rules and definitions on basic issues
Common data transmission programme
GVA compilation: Mostly production, some income,
but no expenditure approach
 No obligation for using specific sources or
regionalisation methods
 Only current prices; but some NSIs have also COP
Who does what?
 National Statistical Institutes (NSIs):
 Primary data collection
 Data compilation at regional levels NUTS1-NUTS3
 Transmission of data to Eurostat in national currency
 Eurostat
 Validation of data received
 Conversion into € and PPS
 Estimation of regional GDP
 Calculation of per-inhabitant figures and 3-year averages
 Development work
Available data (1)
Regional level NUTS 2 (254 units in the EU-25):
 GVA, compensation of employees, employment (total and
employees) in persons, GFCF for 17 industries
 Regional GDP (calculated by Eurostat)
 Primary income of households: Property income (paid and
received), operating surplus/mixed income, compensation of
employees
 Secondary distribution of household income: Taxes on
income/wealth, social contributions, social benefits, other
current transfers (paid and received)
Available data (2)
Regional level NUTS 3 (1213 units in the EU-25):
 GVA at 3 industries
 Employment (total and employees) in persons for 3
industries
 Regional GDP (calculated by Eurostat)
Quality Monitoring
 Quality reporting project (1999-2005) led by CBS Netherlands
 Future quality monitoring:
 Lighter, but more regular and accessible
 Concentrates on accuracy and comparability
 Inventories
 Quality standards: difficult
Future Developments
 More focused data transmission programme: GVA in A6,
employment in hours worked
 Regular calculation of regional growth rates (voluntary)
 Quality monitoring
 Methodological work: Extra-regio, FISIM, growth rates
Conclusions (1)
What helps to make good regional accounts:
 Up-to-date business register with local KAUs
 Detailed Structural Business Statistics
 Access to appropriate administrative data
 Regional classification
 Regions that are comparable in population
 Stability over time: Avoids breaks
Conclusions (2)
Lessons learnt:
 Don’t estimate variables at too much regional detail
 Protect regional classification against political pressure
 Don’t be too ambitious (example: regional FISIM)
 If resources dictate priorities, go first for GVA, then household
accounts and GFCF
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