S ITUATION OF A NNUAL N ATIONAL A CCOUNTS DATA AND METADATA IN 2010 December 2010—La Muette Esther Bolton 1

A NNUAL N ATIONAL A CCOUNTS S ITUATION Database provides consistent and comparable data Chile, Slovenia, and Israel became members in Data Availability: See table 1 in STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2010)25 Common OECD-Eurostat questionnaire is sent to 2

D ATA T RANSMISSION 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. 3

D ISSEMINATION 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. 4

M ETHODOLOGY 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

L INKAGES 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. 6

A CCESSION C OUNTRIES 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 The Russian Federation is still in the process of accession. 7

E NHANCED 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 8

A CCESS TO DATA Access is free to NSOs and Governments : OECD.stat enables to display any set of data from OECD databases 9

I N 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. 10