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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. Updated: NA- Quality Assurance Questionnaire
Contents
Incorporated questions after reviewing:
ICP 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

6. 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

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

8. Next Steps Finalizing Quality Assurance Questionnaire
Timing & Frequency of Reporting

9. Thank you