Transcript OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting on Trade in Services Statistics Eurostat: Metadata, data production and publication Item 20a September 14-15, 2005 OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting.

OECD-Eurostat Expert Meeting on Trade in
Services Statistics
Eurostat:
Metadata, data production and
publication
Item 20a
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NewCronos
 The main event in 2004, regarding the publication policy,
was the availability from October 2004 of Eurostat’s statistics
on the web free of charge.
 It focuses on Internet distribution of data and metadata.
 All data collections of Eurostat database - NewCronos (with
approx 3 million cells) and Cometex (external trade data) have
been added to the free dissemination.
 data documentation (metadata) as well as a uniform
documentation structure are also available.
The Special data dissemination standard (SDDS) has been
used as format.
 Eurostat Homepage: http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int
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BoP Database
Balance of payments data are represented by 5 collections
with the corresponding metadata in SDDS format:
• Economy and finance
• Balance of payments - International transactions
• Balance of payments statistics
• International trade in services, geographical
breakdown of the current account
• European Union direct investments
• European Union Foreign Affiliates Statistics (outward
FATS)
• Balance of payments of the EU institutions
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Quarterly BoP / Euroindicators
 The quarterly EU balance of payments and Euro indicators
data are published regularly in co-ordination with the ECB.
 The quarterly news releases include both data sources and
are simultaneously (the same day) published by both
institutions.
 The quarterly news release has been redesigned to cope
with EU25.
 Consistency between annual and quarterly BoP figures has
been achieved for almost all Member States.
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Trade in Services
 Detailed 2003 data on International Trade in Services were
put in the New Cronos database in February 2005.
 A "Statistics in Focus" analysing EU ITS in 2003 was
released in May 2005.
 The publication “EU International Transactions 1993-2003”
was produced in July 2004.
 Preliminary annual 2004 results for the EU current account
were presented in a "Statistics in Focus" published in July
2005.
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Foreign direct investment
 Detailed EU-15 and EU-25 data on FDI covering 2001-2003
were published in New Cronos at end-December 2004.
 2002 data by kind of activity were published at end of
February 2005.
 These results were presented in a “Statistics in Focus”
published in July 2005.
 EU25 FDI with extra-EU (preliminary results) for 2004 was
published in July 2005 through a news release.
 “Statistics in Focus” containing these results will be
published in October 2005.
The publications “FDI Yearbook” will also be ready by
October 2005.
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FATS - outward
 Outward FATS data are available since July 2005.
 At present data on employment and turnover for 8 Member
States are available
 Data for reference year 2003 will be published by end of
2005
 Two « Statistics in Focus » are planned for coming months:
• Sales and employment of affiliates abroad
• Relationship between FATS indicatots and FDI stock figures
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EU Institutions
 The production infrastructure for balance of payments of
the EU Institutions has been improved significantly.
 BOP 2002 and 2003 data have been included in New Cronos
in February 2005.
 Data for 2004 should be ready by December 2005.
 Moreover, Eurostat is working on a consistent set of BoP
EUI quarterly data for years 1999-2003 with maximum
geographical breakdown.
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Metadata - SDDS
.Base page
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Data
Access by the public
Integrity
Quality
Dissemination formats
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Metadata – Summary methodology
• International trade in services
• Foreign direct investment
• BoP of European Institutions
• EU foreign affiliates statistics
– Concepts, definitions and classifications
– Scope / coverage of data
– Accounting conventions
– Nature of the basic data
– Compilation practices
– Other aspects
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Thank you for your attention
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