Transcript Workshop Summary

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Title
Ex
1
Concepts, features, applications of SUT
1,4
3
Commodity flow approach
2
4
Supply table
5
5
Uses Table
6
6
Classification of industries and products
13
7
Minimum data requirements
10
8
Some problematic areas
8
9
GDP Exhaustiveness (Informal Economy in the context of GDP
exhaustiveness)
9
11
Balancing supply and use
7
12
Updating SUTs
11
2
ICP requirements for NA and SUT, collective and individual services
13
Softwares for constructing SUTs – annex to include country practices-
3,12
Annexes
Topics for 2/3 pages
Volunteers
Trade margins
Cameroon, AUC, Mauritius
Transport costs
Cameroon, Mauritius
Product taxes and subsidies
Nigeria, Mauritius
Imports of goods & services
Congos, Lesotho, Uganda (cross border),
Seychelles
Exports of goods & services
Congos, Uganda (cross border),
Seychelles
C.i.f. / F.o.b. adjustment
Congos, Namibia
Adjustment for purchases by residents and non-residents
Congos, Lesotho
GFCF and Change in inventories
Zimbabwe, Nigeria
Valuables
Livestock products – output, change in inventories and GFCF
Namibia, Ghana, Congos, Mozambique
Own-account construction
Uganda,
Military expenditures (1993 SNA)
India
Crops, forestry
Malawi, Ghana
Intermediate consumption
Burkina Faso, Mozambique
Volume indicators used for extrapolation
Burkina Faso, Ghana
FISIM estimation and allocation to industries and final users
Mauritius, cameroon
Informal sector accounting
Zimbabwe, Afristat, cameroon
Balancing
Burkina Faso, Seychelles
Title?
• Handbook on Supply and Use Tables:
Compilation, Application, and Good Practices followed in
Africa (practices relevant to Africa)
• Handbook on Supply and Use Tables:
Compilation, Application, and practices relevant to Africa
• Supply and Use Tables: Training Materials for
Africa
• Supply and Use Tables in Africa: Some
Guidelines
• Supply and Use Tables in Africa: Compilation
Guidelines and Good Practices followed in African countries
Action points from EGM discussions
Action point
Responsibility
Introduction before each chapter
DB/RK
Cross-referencing to SNA, wherever
elaboration is necessary
DB/RK
Examples and exercises
For each component of SUT, the structure of
explanation could be (i) concepts, (ii) data
sources ways to compile, (iii) examples
Few examples by DB/RK and
annexes to include country
examples
As feasible DB/RK
Chapter 7 (old) on balancing to include
Steve’s example
ECA
Brief text on SUT uses in compiling IO
tables/SAM/CGE models and their uses in
policy and planning
ECA
Abbreviations and chapters editing
ECA
Chapter 1
• More explanation and relationship between prices
• Explain that weaknesses also could be on supply side
data
• Explain a bit more on cif/fob adjustment
• More products does not necessarily mean more quality
of SUT
• Quote changes in 2008 SNA wherever there are
changes
• Even if robust data is not available, countries should
compile SUT as it presents the best structure for GDP
estimation
Chapter 2
• Brief text on estimation in the commodity
flow approach when data is not available
• How to replace doubtful data
• Can we assume imports and exports to be
firm
Chapter 3
• Whether foreigners but residents
expenditures are covered in HIES, if not
how to adjust for this
• Some examples of PPPs could be
included
Chapter 4
• include it as part of Chapter 1
Chapter 5
• Explain more on what is production
• Transport costs refer to only freight – need
to be clarified in the text
• Is there any easy way for estimating CFC
(explain in chapter 8 – problem areas)
• Explain a bit more on how to break-down
when only the data on total tax is available
– not by product break-down
Chapter 6
• Cross-referencing and texts on the usage of
words ‘or’ need to be relooked
• Use ‘final consumption expenditure’ term
everywhere in the report
• Add in the definition of HFCE, ‘satisfaction of
human needs’
• For IC estimation, small samples on each
industry could give input ratios
Chapter 7
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of using
RAS
• At what stage RAS and manual balancing should be
used
• How to deal with large discrepancies
• Text on mechanical methods other than RAS
Chapter 8
• More examples
• Will the use of SUT improve the coverage of these
problematic areas
• What is their relative importance
• Increment in livestock – output and GFCF/CII –
relationship may be explained
• Some text on FISIM and CFC
• How to allocate crops spread over different years
Chapter 9
• Heading could be “Informal Economy in the context of
GDP exhaustiveness”
• Difference between 1993 and 2008 SNA
• Advantages between direct and indirect approaches
• Linking text between SUT and exhaustiveness
Chapter 10
• Text to include use of VAT data in estimating output of
formal sector; and also mention income tax sources
• Can be sources of data given in the text be segregated
by industries?
• More elaboration on specific IO surveys
• How to allocate product total TTM between trade and
transport
• How to obtain government expnditures by product
• Can the Eurostat example be included in the chapter
• Add ‘water’ to utilities in the sources
Chapter 11
• To explain the contexts when RAS is not appropriate and
when to use modified RAS
• How long between benchmarks? To explain for how
many years the SUT structure is valid
• Dealing with new industries in SUT updation
• What is the status of an updated SUT? Can the SUT
updates be used for annual national accounts
Chapter 12
• Text to mention that NPIs serving government and
corporations are not part of NPISH
• Any changes in 2008 SNA on treatment of NPISH
• COFOG is difficult to implement and final budget data
comes after two years
• To be part of chapter 3 on ICP requirements
Chapter 13
• Text to include the role of national industry classification
• Concordance classifications adopted by Asian
Development Bank (web link to be provided)
• Allocation of ‘other items’
• Suggestions for improving resources for NA and SUTs
• (to collect the PPT of Burkina Faso)