Joint Eurostat - OECD Workshop on Quarterly National Accounts in EU candidate countries

Luxembourg, 9 - 12 July, 2001

Full Agenda

COMPILATION, DATA SOURCES AND METHODS OF QUARTERLY NATIONAL ACCOUNTS:

MONDAY 9 JULY,

Session 1: Opening address and administrative arrangements

Session 2: General description of QNA (Eurostat)

Session 3: QNA practices in the Candidate Countries (Country participants)

Session 4: Summary of candidate country responses to the QNA questionnaires (Eurostat)

Session 5: Quarterly value-added in agriculture (OECD)

TUESDAY 10 JULY

Session 6: Quarterly Household Final Consumption Expenditure (OECD)

Session 7: Balancing Q GDP estimates from the different approaches (Eurostat)

Session 8: Reconciling quarterly and annual estimates (benchmarking) and revisions policies (Eurostat)

SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT OF QUARTERLY NATIONAL ACCOUNTS

WEDNESDAY 11 JULY

Session 9: Introduction to theoretical issues of seasonal adjustment (Eurostat)

Session 10: Introduction to decisions required before seasonally adjusting GDP (OECD)

Session 11: Seasonal adjustment of Q GDP for the Baltic countries (OECD)

Session 12: Experiences of seasonal adjustment in candidate countries (Country participants)

Session 13: Presentation of DEMETRA (Eurostat)

THURSDAY, 12 JULY

Session 14: Experiences with DEMETRA (Country participants)

Session 15: Concluding discussions

Session 16: Discussion of practical issues arising

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