Transcript Agenda item 5a Implementation of the System of National Accounts in the Republic of Belarus O.V.

Agenda item 5a
Implementation of the System of
National Accounts in the
Republic of Belarus
O.V. Zavadskaya
Head of National Accounts Department
Workshop on Implementation of the 2008 SNA
Kiev, 29 November - 2 December 2011
In August 1992 the Government
of Belarus approved a
Programme for Transition to
International Standards in
Accounting and Statistics.
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The National Accounts of Belarus are
compiled in accordance with the
international statistical standard, the
System of National Accounts 1993
(1993 SNA), developed by Eurostat,
OECD, IMF, UN and World Bank, and
approved by the UN Statistical
Commission in 1993.
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Belarus compiles the following
annual accounts:
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The goods and services account;
The production account;
The generation of income account;
The allocation of primary income account;
The secondary distribution of income
account;
- The use of income account;
- The capital account.
All accounts are presented by institutional sectors;
the production and the generation of income
accounts are also presented by economic activity.
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Quarterly estimates of GDP:
since 1994:
- Production approach;
- Final use approach;
since 1997:
- Production approach;
- Final use approach;
- Income approach.
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Short-term estimates of GDP:
since 1994:
- Production approach by branches of
national economy (CBNE)
since 2010:
- Production approach by economic
activity (ISIC).
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Annual
Publications:
- «National Accounts of Belarus»;
- «Quarterly estimates of the GDP of
Belarus»
in English and Russian.
Published at the Belstat website.
Quarterly
Press releases (bulletins)
«Quarterly estimates of GDP and regional
GDP».
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Website of the National
Statistical Committee
of the Republic of Belarus
• http://www.belstat.gov.by
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In the framework of the
Programme for the
Development of State
Statistics of the Republic of
Belarus, 2011-2015, it is
planned to undertake work on
improvement of the national
accounts and to gradually
implement the 2008 SNA.
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The main priority at the first stage of
implementation of the 2008 SNA
would be to address the issues that
have impact on the level of GDP at
current and constant prices, as well
as on other major national
accounts aggregates compiled in
the country.
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Thank you!
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