Working Party on National Accounts, OECD Conference Centre, La Muette - 4-6 November 2009

1.

Introduction

Adoption of the agenda

  STD/CSTAT/WPNA/A(2009)1

Adoption of the minutes of the 2008 WPNA meeting

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA/M(2008)1

 2.

Implementation of 2008 SNA

Update on implementation plans: Herman Smith, UNSD

Managing the Implementation of SNA, BPM and Related International Standards in an NSO Context (Michael Davies, ABS)

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STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)14

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3.

The Accession process
Feedback from the review of Accession country reports  (Tim Davis - OECD)

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4.

Quarterly sectoral accounts
Proposal for the collection of (non-financial and financial) QSA statistics (Jiemin Guo, Michèle Chavoix-Mannato, OECD) 
QSA in the EU:  Results and future developments (Denis Leythienne - Eurostat)
Reconciliation of quarterly non-financial and financial accounts by the use of unquoted shares and other instruments (Carina Kjersgaard Friis - National Bank of Denmark)
Developing quarterly accounts for the institutional sectors in Chile (Carmen-Gloria Escobar - Central Bank of Chile)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)4

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STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)2

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5.

National accounts implications of the financial crises
National presentations on statistics, statistical developments and statistical action plans dealing with the financial crisis – (with a key focus on the measurement, and their comparability, of government interventions) 
  -  Netherlands (Bram de Boo - Statistics Netherlands)
  -  United States (Brent Moulton - BEA)

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6.

Report by the ‘Commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress’ (Stiglitz Commission)
Panel Discussion dealing with the main recommendations from the Commission
Country presentations

 - (J.P. Chapron - Insee)

 - Michael Davis - ABS)

 - Francis Malherbe - Eurostat

Only available on

Stiglitz Commission Website

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Conclusions of the WPFS meeting and proposals for 2010

1.

National Accounts data: User needs
Motivating the development of improved metatdata to compare the size of the public and government sectors (Nadim Ahmad - OECD/STD and Hans Christiansen - OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs)

IMF work on government finance and public sector statistics, Manik Lal Shrestha, IMF

The importance of inventory data (stocks and changes) for business cycle analysis (OECD - Economics Directorate)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)6

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DAF/CA/PRIV/WD(2009)1

(Olis only)

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2.

The SNA Research Agenda
Presentation of the SNA research agenda and roundtable discussion on priorities and timing for future work (Nadim Ahmad - OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)7

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3.

OECD-Eurostat Task Force on the treatment of Emission Permits in the National Accounts
Feedback, and a draft report, from the OECD-Eurostat Task Force, presenting the main options (Nadim Ahmad - OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)8

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4.

Handbook on Deriving Capital Measures of Intellectual Property Products
Main conclusions and recommendations of the Handbook  (Nadim Ahmad - OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)3

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5.

Hours worked data in the national accounts
Comparability of labour input measures for productivity analysis, (Olivier Brunet - OECD)

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)11

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6. 

Purchasing Power Parities
Update on PPP programme and new data set for health expenditure (Paul Schreyer - OECD)

A Note on Projecting Benchmark Result (Art Ridgeway - Canada)

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7.

National Accounts at a Glance publication
Information on the OECD’s forthcoming NA publication (Jeroen Meyer - OECD)

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)10

(OLIS only)

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8.

OECD Databases
The OECD's Input-Output database (Norihiko Yamano - OECD)

Annual National Accounts
The situation of annual national accounts data and metadata transmission to the OECD and NAWWWE progress report  (Esther Bolton - OECD)
Quarterly National Accounts
The situation of quarterly national accounts data transmission to the OECD (Jiemin Guo - OECD)

DSTI/EAS/IND/WPIA(2009)10

(OLIS only)

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STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)5

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STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)1

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9.

National accounts implications of the financial crises (II)

(Albert Braakman - Germany)

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10.

Group of Experts on the Impact of Globalisation on National Accounts
(Tihomira Dimova - UNECE)

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11.

Open session

Household income accounts by income decile (Maryse Faisseau - Insee)
Fact sheet approach for tracing and explaining business cycles (Wouter Jonkers, Statsitics Netherlands)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)13

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STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2009)12

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12.

Election of the Bureau