1. GENERAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS
A new OECD publication (September 2004)
OECD Working Party on National Accounts (Paris, October 2004)

2. General Government Accounts
Source of figures:
Tables 200 (Main aggregates of GG), 900 (Tax and social contribution receipts) and 1100 (Expenditure by function – COFOG)
Tables 600 (financial account:flows) and 700 (financial balance sheet: stocks)
Coverage:
29 OECD countries, general government sector (SNA93), including the sub-sectors

3. General Government Accounts
Format of the publication: four tables
Table 1: Summary of aggregates and balances
Table 2: General government account (SNA93 almost full sequence of accounts ) (from table and 700)
Table 3: Detailed tax and social contribution receipts (from table 900)
Table 4: Expenditure by function (from table 1100)

4. General Government Accounts
Disclosure of the statistics:
The book (volume IV) and a CD-Rom
A sample (10%) of the data is made available on the OECD Web site on a free basis (tables 1 and 4 for the general government only)
Subscription to SourceOECD (gives access to all tables)

5. Transmission of the data on GG
Stocktaking on 1 October 2004:
EU countries are rapidly progressing towards comprehensiveness of data
- table 1100 still expected from Czech republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
- Table 1100: data by sub-sector missing only from Ireland and Portugal

6. Transmission of the data on GG
Stocktaking on 1 October 2004 (continued):
Non-EU countries: situation is more heterogeneous, from Norway (everything) to Turkey (nothing)
- Table 200: real progress (except from New Zealand). Effort still expected for the sub-sectors from Australia, Canada, Korea, Mexico and Switzerland. Problem of timeliness for the United States.
- Table 900: in progress, effort expected from Korea and Switzerland
- Table 1100: effort from the majority
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7. General Government Accounts
Next edition: two main improvements
One page of metadata by country (characteristics of the figures, sources…)
Change of the timing for publishing: from September to mid-November
Reason: More accurate and consistent figures are available in the beginning of September (in particular for tables 200 and 900)