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9.2 STATISTICAL UNITS IN SUPPLY
AND USE TABLES AND
INSTITUTIONAL SECTOR ACCOUNTS
Advisory Expert Group (AEG) on National
Accounts
Washington D.C., September 8 – 10, 2014
Peter van de Ven
Head of National Accounts, OECD
Introduction (1/2)
• SNA 2008 distinguishes two different types of statistical units:
– Establishment in supply and use tables
– Institutional units in institutional sector accounts
• Call for (re)considering statistical units, also call for possibly
reconsidering classifications by industry
• Proposal for establishing a Task Force on Statistical Units,
looking at it from a more fundamental point of view
• Going beyond the present standards of the 2008 SNA
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Introduction (2/2)
SNA 2008, para. A4.21: “At the present there are two reasons
to have the concept of establishment within the SNA. The first
of these is to provide a link to source information when this is
collected on an establishment basis. In cases where basic
information is collected on an enterprise basis, this reason
disappears. The second reason is for use in input-output
tables. Historically, the rationale was to have a unit that related
as far as possible to only one activity in only one location so
that the link to the physical processes of production was as
clear as possible. With the change of emphasis from the
physical view of input-output to an economic view, and from
product-by-product matrices to industry-by-industry ones, it is
less clear that it is essential to retain the concept of
establishment in the SNA”.
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Why reconsidering statistical units (1/5)
Changes in economic environment:
• International fragmentation of production processes
• More generally, outsourcing (inside and outside an
enterprise) of certain activities
• Increasing role of Intellectual Property Products
• Quickly changing organisational structures, etc.
 Underlying assumption of homogeneity less apparent
 More emphasis on “economic” view, instead of “physical”
production processes
 Establishments require more and more imputations of
central services
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Why reconsidering statistical units (2/5)
Changes in collection of source data:
• Pressure to decrease respondent burden
• More and more use of administrative data
Need to combine description and analysis of production
process with, for example:
• Income and finance (recent financial crisis)
• Environmental issues (e.g. Green Growth)
• Trade (e.g. Trade in Value Added)
Policy questions require increased flexibility, micro-macro
linking
 Move away from establishments, towards enterprises
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Why reconsidering statistical units (3/5)
• International comparability issues
• Apparent differences in interpretation of present guidelines,
sometimes related to availability of source data, but also for
other reasons
• Two examples:
– Delineation of quasi-corporations, impact on operating
surplus of non-financial corporations
– Delineation of institutional units, impact on e.g. gross
debt as % of GDP
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Why reconsidering statistical units (4/5)
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Why reconsidering statistical units (5/5)
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Proposal establishment Task Force (1/2)
Mandate of the Task Force:
• To (re)consider the statistical units that are presently
recommended in the 2008 SNA, and – if the Task Force has
the opinion that the SNA-recommendations should be
changed in this respect – to come up with concrete and
implementable proposals for changing the current
recommendations
• To come up with concrete suggestions, e.g. regarding the
criteria for the recognition of separate units, which would be
instrumental to an (enhanced) internationally comparable
implementation
• To come up with concrete proposals, if needed, for
classification by industry and possibly by institutional sector
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Proposal establishment Task Force (2/2)
• Under the umbrella of the ISWGNA
• Regular reporting to AEG
• First progress report in 2016
• Broad worldwide participation, not limited to national
accountants
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Issues to be addressed by the AEG
• Does the AEG agree that, in view of the changing
economic environment, the differences in interpretation
of the 2008 SNA, and the increasing pressure to reduce
the respondent burden, an International Task Force on
Statistical Units should be set up, which would look into
possible amendments and/or further clarifications of the
SNA.
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Thank you for your attention!
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