1. United Nations Statistics Division
A focus on the shared collection and data exchange of annual national accounts from member countries and its challenges
UNSC Side Event: A dialogue on how International Agencies can better collaborate with National Statistical Authorities
New York, March 4, 2014
Ivo Havinga
United Nations Statistics Division

2. Outline of Presentation
The UNSD national accounts data
Data collection and dissemination
Other UNSD data cooperation projects
Way forward 2

3. Rest of the World 160 countries/areas UN National Accounts data
Data collection
UNECE
CARICOM
Rest of the World 160 countries/areas
Eurostat
OECD
UN National Accounts data
SQL format
Excel NAQ 3

4. National Accounts Data: MADT
Annual data officially submitted – not always timely
Local currency, CP & KP (country specific base year)
GDP by expenditure
GDP by production (Value added by industry)
Output, IC, VA and fixed assets by industry
Integrated Accounts for institutional sectors
From production account to the financial account
Less than half the non-EU/OECD countries
MADT - September
Print:
Web: Undata
National Accounts data
Validation
XLS 4

5. National Accounts Data: AMA
Annual data 1970 – t-1 focus on comparability
US$
Current & Constant
GDP by expenditure
Value added by industry
Derived analytical indicators
Shares of GDP by exp
Shares of GVA by industry
Growth rates
GDP implicit price deflators
GDP and GNI per capita
AMA - December
Print:
Web:
AMAdata
Undata
MADT
Secondary sources 5

6. National Accounts Data Users
AMA Web site activity 2013
UN National Accounts Data
Collaboration
UNSD National Accounts Data
requests
Regional Commissions
Various other users
World Bank
UNCTAD
UNIDO
UN policy departments 6

7. UN Comtrade

8. UN Comtrade

9. Brining Information to the World
Brining Information to the World
Quick facts
34 Databases
216 Country/area
profiles
6 Glossaries
60+ Million records
UNdata partners

10. Undata usage
Visits per month

11. SDMX implementation in UNdata
Undata API
SDMX implementation in UNdata
Web Service:
Web Client:
5 Datasets online
International MDG Database
CountryData
UIS database on education, literacy, science, culture, and communication
World Population Prospects
World Development Indicators

12. Way forward Liaise with RC to improve data cooperation
Upgrade UNdata Web Service – continuous
To support RESTful interface and SDMX 2.1
Develop Data Structure Definitions for UNdata datasets and implement mappings
Implement SDMX Registry for UNdata
Lead the work on developing DSD for international trade data due end 2014
Established a UNSD working group to
accommodate the 2008 SNA due end 2014
accommodate the NA DSDs for SDMX
Dissemination June 2014
Collection Dec 2014
Liaise with RC to improve data cooperation

14. Thank You 14 14