Scottish National Accounts Project - SNAP! Sandy Stewart Scottish Government
Presentation What we currently produce What users want Developments – the Scottish National Accounts Project (SNAP) – Experimental statistics Issues for ONS
What we currently produce Quarterly GVA (P) estimates Quarterly Index of Manufactured Exports Annual Input-Output tables Annual Global Connections Survey Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland Scottish Economic Statistics – compendium Government activity and productivity Experimental statistics – SNAP
What users want More timely short term indicators More coherence between economic statistics Fewer revisions over time More time-series analysis Public Sector Finances and National Accounts for Scotland – related analysis Onshore – offshore analyses More modelling work – social/economic/environmental
Press comments – this week “This tardiness in the publication of Scottish Government (GDP) statistics is a continuing scandal” – Scotsman 21/4/09 “Scotland’s GDP numbers: An amazing case of statistical mince” – Scotsman 22/4/09 – criticism of chain-linking (Delphic mysteries) and seasonal adjustment (need peaks and troughs) “But there were some anomalies in the GDP figures..” – Scotsman 23/4/09
Scottish National Accounts Project (SNAP) Estimating quarterly GDP (production, income and expenditure approaches) Use of I-O framework to ‘balance’ and benchmark short term estimates I-O tables from 1998 to be dynamic, reflecting methodology and definitional changes over time Constructing artificial SU matrices quarterly – for modelling and impact studies Creating experimental national accounts for Scotland (household, industry, trade and environmental accounts) CGE modelling
Issues for ONS Considerable help and support from NA and RA teams Strong working relationships – especially Peer Review processes, links to UKCeMGA Very helpful responses to increased requests for data Concern about quality of IDBR Concern about UK Input-Output activity Concern about sample sizes of UK surveys