1. WORKING PARTY ON NATIONAL ACCOUNTS Paris, 1-3 December 2010
Situation of QUARTERLY NATIONAL ACCOUNTS data transmission to the OECD
Rachida DKHISSI
Document STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2010)26

2. The OECD QNA database Provides accurate, comparable and timely data
To OECD economists and external users
As soon as it is released by National Statistical Offices/Central Banks
Using OECD/Eurostat standard questionnaire based on SNA93/ESA95
+ Other series not reported or not covered by the questionnaire

3. The OECD QNA outputs Daily updates in OECD.Stat News releases
For subscribers: Standard set of QNA for OECD countries, some non-member economies and zones' aggregates
For free: a subset of these data in OECD.Stat Extracts
News releases
Preliminary estimate of the OECD real GDP growth (Q+50d)
Contributions of expenditure components to OECD GDP growth (Q+90d) : started in July Q110 data
Regular Quarterly publication (Q+120d)

4. Data transmission to the OECD
OECD QNA dissemination calendar
Centralises advanced release dates announced by NSOs for all OECD countries and some non-member economies (see Annex I)
Informs users on ongoing updates in OECD.Stat
Request to countries regarding timeliness
Transmit data to OECD as soon as it is released nationally
Data availability (see Table 3, document 26)
Specific requests to countries to provide:
Long time series
Seasonally adjusted data
Population and employment data (NA framework)

5. Methodology Chain volume estimates FISIM Allocation
31 of 33 OECD member countries adopted
Mexico and Chile: 2011
FISIM Allocation
27 of 33 OECD member countries allocated
except Chile, Israel, Japan, Mexico (2011), New Zealand and Turkey
Request to countries regarding metadata
provide brief note appended to data transmission
to signal any important change

6. New Members, EE countries
QNA data includes now 3 new OECD Member countries: Chile, Israel and Slovenia
Estonia and Russian Federation (ongoing process)
Since September, Brazilian QNA have been included in the OECD QNA DB.
Standard QNA questionnaire to be sent to EE countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa)
China started to fill the standard QNA questionnaire in 2009 and updated it in More results expected in 2011.

7. Ongoing QNA plans Institutional sectors breakdown: QSA data collection
NAWWE data transmission: pilot with Mexico
Countries' coverage enlargement: set up and strengthen cooperation with non-member economies for data and metadata exchange

8. Any comments/questions from delegates?
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