National Accounts Questionnaires Review and Proposal 3rd Regional Coordinating Agencies meeting Oct 28-30, 2015 Washington, DC

Submission status of NA-Q in ICP 2011 MORES Quality Assurance Exhaustiveness (in any form) Participation Africa  50 Asia (Separate version) 23 CIS 9 Latin America 17 Western Asia 12 OECD/Eurostat - 47 Caribbean Pacific Islands 21 Singleton 2

ICP National Accounts Questionnaires Updates MORES (Mainly unchanged- Ready to be used) Assisted countries to estimate and compile detailed expenditure values Helpful for understanding ICP Classification and compiling ‘hard-to-estimate’ BH values Exhaustiveness Q (Drop) Used to identify potential sources of understatement in the national accounts due to omissions from the statistical source data 2011: Original, Simplified, Very Simplified versions existed but were not utilized fully Quality Assurance Q (Update - Almost ready to be used)

NA- Quality Assurance Questionnaire Purpose Ascertain the comparability of NA data in ICP countries Understand data/sources during validation process Identify potential Technical Assistance needed areas Previous version Focused on SNA compliance, ICP classification and general compilation process Could have included more questions targeting specific sectors: Housing, Construction, NPISH Structure & Formatting Little Organization, Macro-built in excel (sometimes not technically compatible) Quality Submission status was good, unfortunately could not be fully used due to timing of submission Hence, NA-Quality Assurance Questionnaire is updated

Updated: NA- Quality Assurance Questionnaire Contents Incorporated questions after reviewing: ICP 2011 Global + Asia Questionnaire Other International Organizations’ NA data quality survey UNSD Self Assessment of the status of National Accounts and Supporting Economic Statistics UNSD Diagnostic Framework for National Accounts and Supporting Economic Statistics IMF: Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for National Accounts Statistics Comments from ICP 2011 countries/regions + experts Included other metadata: Reporting Institution Year of completion

Updated: NA- Quality Assurance Questionnaire Structure Formatting I. Approach and Documentation Approach and SNA Source Information Documentation Technical Assistance II. Methodology Classification General Valuation Household Consumption Housing FISM NPISH Government Gross Fixed Capital Formation Inventories and valuables Balance of exports and imports Simple pull-tab select button (non-macro in excel) Allows multiple selection of answers

Review of NA-QA Questionnaire - Contents - Organization Length Technical issues Other Suggestions

Next Steps Finalizing Quality Assurance Questionnaire Timing & Frequency of Reporting

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