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for National Accounts (incl. GFS), BOP and FDI
Meeting of the
Advisory Expert Group (AEG) on National Accounts
September 8-10, 2014, Washington, DC
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Background
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OG membership and mandate
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Maintenance agreement and timeline
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State of play and next steps
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2 SDMX implementation projects
◦ …for National Accounts (SNA2008 / ESA 2010)
◦ …for Balance of Payments (BPM6) and
Foreign Direct Investment (BMD4)
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2 project steering groups and
2 technical groups
Running from 20011 until 2013
◦ Publication of V1.0 DSDs in September 2013
◦ End of mandate for steering groups
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Mandated by SDMX Sponsors in January 2014
As a single OG for NA & GFS, BOP and FDI
Representation of management
from content and SDMX side
Oversees maintenance of SDMX artefacts
Mandated technical groups
◦ 1 on BOP and FDI; 1 on NA and GFS
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Close cooperation with IAG Task Force
international data cooperation (TFIDC)
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ECB: Tjeerd Jellema, Gerard Salou, Henrik Schwartzlose
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Eurostat: Silke Stapel-Weber, August Götzfried
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IMF: Rene Piche, Ralph Kozlow, Floriana Tanase
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OECD: Peter van de Ven, Maria Borga, David Barraclough
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UNSD: Herman Smith
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Chair: OECD, Secretary: Eurostat
BIS and World Bank as observers
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Maintenance Agencies (MA) defined:
◦ BOP: IMF
◦ FDI: OECD
◦ NA and GFS: Eurostat
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MA will only apply changes agreed upon by OG
Change requests may lead to…
◦ Structural changes: major release (e.g. SNA2025 )
◦ Annual maintenence release (regular case)
◦ Fast-track maintenance release
(only for small changes limited to selected dataflows)
(subject to review during next annual release)
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Until April: anybody can request changes
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Until June: consolidation of change requests
and OG discussion
Until December: consultation with
constituencies and implementation planning
December: approval of new version
Until March Y+1: testing and bug-fixing
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April Y+1: MA publishes new version
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V1.1 published in Jan 2014
V1.2 in April 2014 in SDMX Global Registry
◦ V1.3 fast-track release for NA Sector Accounts
(to fix a mistake in one code list)
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V1.4 regular release currently in preparation
◦ Inclusion of IMF GFSM coding
◦ Support for SNA93 in the context of international
data cooperation
◦ Support for additional dataflows (e.g. GNI, EDP)
◦ Minor additions to existing code lists
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Next OG meeting: November 2014
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Implementation of ESA 2010 in Europe
◦ First legal deadlines end-September 2014
◦ Extensive support of countries during
implementation
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Fostering SDMX for NA globally
◦ IAG International Data Cooperation pilot projects
(Main aggregates and population; Sector Accounts)
◦ Support for SNA93 within the SDMX-NA package
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Background
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OG membership and mandate
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Maintenance agreement and timeline
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State of play and next steps
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Thank you for your attention