1. Annual National Accounts
1. Situation of OECD annual national accounts database
2. New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire
Working Party on National Accounts
12-15 October 2004
( Michèle Hainaut )

2. 1. Situation of OECD annual national accounts database
Joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire for the transmission of data
Availability of data (see table pages 4-5)
Improvements in completeness, timeliness and coverage for tables
Significant weakness: tables 0119, 0800 and 1400.
Dissemination of data (paper, CD-ROM and OLISnet)
Volume 1 Main aggregates - in January + electronic version updated quarterly and free on the Internet.
Volume 2 Detailed tables - in July – the electronic version covers, in addition, detailed non-financial accounts by sectors.

3. 2. New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire
Reorganisation – several of the tables are merged.
Suppression and reduction
Tables , 0118, , 0119, 1400 are dropped
Table 0800: transactions and sector detail are reduced.
Extensions
Table : A60 breakdown (ISIC Rev.3 division)
Table 0302: GFCF in construction
Table 0303: additional employment breakdown by sector
Table 0501: full COICOP 3-digits for households
Table 2000 and 2200: new cross-classification A17 (A60) x AN_F6
New table 2600: balance sheets for non-financial assets
Additional OECD requirements for capital stock data.

4. Recommendations
Special effort should be made to supply tables by institutional sectors and table on fixed assets.
Data should be transmitted on the day the data are released by Member country
European Member countries are asked to send the questionnaire to both OECD and Eurostat at the same time using the same .