1. The Lebanese National Accounts
Expert Group Meeting on Short Term Statistics
Amman February 2016

2. Introduction On Lebanese NA
Main Elements in the Compilation of GDP
Benchmark
Annual estimates
NA System
Excel
International Standards
SNA 2008
Classification
LPA

3. The Household Budget Survey (2004 and 2011-2012)
Data Sources
The Household Budget Survey (2004 and )
CAS Survey on enterprises ( )
The Ministry of Finance
The value added tax returns
Budgetary operations of the Central Government
Customs
The Central Bank
Transactions of the Banking Sector
The Balance of Payments
Ministry of Agriculture and CREAL

4. Methodology
GDP estimates derived using the Production and the expenditure approaches
Annual estimates was calculated by extrapolating the benchmark using the production approach based mainly on the VAT data
Where the VAT information is not appropriate, other sources of data were used:
Air transport, Construction, Electricity, …

5. Difficulties confronted
With:
Data availability and timeliness
VAT data
FISIM

6. The NA results consist of:
Gross Domestic Product
Expenditure components of GDP
GDP by activity
Supply use table (if compiled)
Sector accounts

7. Dissemination and Publication
First publication was in July 2013:
Data sources and compilation methods
Comments and tables (2011 results with a revision for the years in addition to a preliminary 2012 estimate for GDP and Growth)
Second publication was in December 2014

8. THANK YOU