National Accounts Meetings - Archive of Papers

1 - Agendas
2 - Minutes
3 - List of participants
4 - Agriculture
5 - Backcasting
6 - Changes in inventories
7 - Classifications
8 - Collection & dissemination of NA data at the OECD
9 - Consumer subsidies
10 - Employment
11 - Financial Accounts
12 - Financial Services
13 - General government accounts
14 - Household wealth
15 - Input-output
16 - Insurance
17 - Interest
18 - ITC measurement
19 - Miscellaneous
20 - Non-financial assets, intangibles, R&D, capital stock & services
21 - Non-market output
22 - Other international statistical manuals
23 - Pension funds
24 - PPP & national accounts
25 - Revisions, balancing methods
26 - Satellite accounts, sustainable development
27 - Savings
28 - SNA implementation & revision, international comparability, ISWGNA
29 - Stock options
30 - Transfer costs
31 - Underground economy
32 - Volume estimates & productivity

1 - Agendas
Draft agenda of the WPNA - STD/CSTAT/WPNA/A(2006)1 - and draft agenda of the WPFS - COM/STD/DAF/A(2006)1
draft agenda of the WPNA - STD/NAES/A(2005)1 and draft agenda of the WPFS - STD/NAES/FA/A(2005)1
Draft agenda - STD/NAES/A(2004)1
Draft agenda  [STD/NAES/A(2003)1]
Draft agenda STD/NAES/A(2003)1 
Draft agenda STD/NA/A(2002)1
Organisation of international harmonisation & agenda for 2003 (OECD) STD/NA(2002)28
Draft agenda STD/NA/A(2001)1STD/NA/A(2000)01 
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2 - Minutes
Minutes of the 2006 WPNA meeting: STD/CSTAT/WPNA/M(2006)1
Minutes of the 2005 WPNA meeting:  STD/NAES/M(2005)1
Summary record of the 2005 WPFS meeting:  STD/NAES/FA/M(2005)1
Minutes of the 2004 WPNA meeting:  STD/NAES/M(2004)1
Summary record of the 2004 WPFS meeting - STD/NAES/FA/M(2004)1
Minutes of the previous meeting (François Lequiller, OECD) - STD/NAES/M(2003)1
Minutes of the meeting STD/NA(2002)39
Summary Record - 2001 
Summary report - 2000
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3 - List of participants
List of participants for 2005 (both meetings WPNA and WPFS)
List of participants (2004)
List of Participants (2003)
List of participants - 20022001
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4 - Agriculture
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5 - Backcasting
Retropolating Italian annual national accounts data according to ESA95 (Italy) - STD/NA(99)37
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6 - Changes in inventories
Model for the cyclical trend in stocks in Belgium (Belgium) - STD/NA(99)35
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7 - Classifications
Classifications of financial corporations and of financial assets (ECB) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)14 - STD/CSTAT/WPNA/RD(2006)3
Top-top industry classifications in the SNA [W. Cave, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)9
Classification and terminology of the financial corporations in the updated SNA - STD/NAES/FA(2005)2 
Classification and terminology of financial assets and liabilities in the updated SNA - STD/NAES/FA(2005)1
Classification issue:  proposal for an ISIC aggregation structure (William Cave, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)18 
Draft publication: SNA93 Classifications (COICOP, COPNI, COFOG) (OECD) - STD/NA/RD(98)10
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8 - Collection & dissemination of NA data at the OECD
Progress report on the Financial Accounts databases  (M. Chavoix-Mannato, OECD) - COM/STD/DAF(2006)4
The situation of annual NA data and metadata transmission to the OECD, and NAWWE progress report (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)12 
The situation of quarterly National Accounts data transmission to the OECD (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)6
Collection and dissemination of quarterly national accounts [M. Harary, E. Bolton - OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)21
Progress report on the OECD financial accounts database [M. Chavoix-Mannato, OECD] - for decision - STD/NAES/FA'2005)3eng - STD/NAES/FA'2005)3fra
Progress report on the new OECD requests on financial and non-financial asset of households and institutional investors [M. Chavoix-Mannato, OECD] - for decision - STD/NAES/FA(2005)5
Collection and dissemination of annual national accounts [C. La Rosa, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)18 
The new publication on general government accounts (Jean Pierre Dupuis, OECD) (2004) - powerpoint J.P. Dupuis
The new financial accounts database (Michèle Chavoix-Mannato, OECD) - STD/NAES/FA(2004)5
Situation of Annual National Accounts in the database (Michèle Hainaut, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)13 
Collection and dissemination of quarterly national accounts (Micheline Harary, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)19
The NAWWE project: progress report (Charles Aspden, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)20 - powerpoint L. Thygesen
New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire and the situation of annual accounts data in the OECD (M. Hainaut, OECD) (2003) - PowerPoint: M. Hainaut
New features of the joint OECD-Eurostat questionnaire & the situation of annual accounts data in the OECD (OECD) - STD/NAES(2003)27
Major changes in the presentation of the US national accounts (BEA) - STD/NAES(2003)23
The situation of quarterly national accounts & intentions of countries regarding chain linking & trading day adjustments in quarterly NA (OECD) -  STD/NAES(2003)28
The collection of capital stocks data (OECD) STD/NAES(2003)24 - PowerPoint: M. AspdenM. Schmalwasser
Press release on quarterly national accounts:  comparative study for the Euro area (ECB/OECD project on international comparability) - STD/NAES(2003) room doc3
The situation of country data in the OECD databases (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)10
The NAWWE project (0ECD) - STD/NA(2002)12
Introduction of the euro in OECD statistics (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)8
Data transmission, treatment and dissemination in annual and quarterly national accounts (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)33
The OECD STAN database for Industrial Analysis (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)32
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9 - Consumer subsidies
Consumer subsidies and taxes - illustrative compilations for Australia (Australia) - STD/NA(99)25
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10. Employment
New estimates of hours worked in Australia (Australia) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)3 - STD/CSTAT/WPNA/RD(2006)1
Employment and hours worked data in the national accounts [F. Lequiller, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)25
Employment and hours worked data in the national accounts (François Lequiller, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)6 
Development of Social Accounting Matrices in the EU; progress report on the Leadership Group on SAMs (Netherlands) - STD/NA(2000)10
Integration of the labour market statistics into the Belgian national accounts (Belgium) - STD/NA(2000)03
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11 - Financial accounts
Valuation of assets/liabilities in Financial Accounts  (F. Lequiller, OECD) - COM/STD/DAF(2006)5
OECD project on historical data  (M. Chavoix-Mannato, OECD and T. Sbano, Pioneer) - COM/STD/DAF(2006)6 - (PowerPoint Pioneer)(PowerPoint Unicredit) - (PowerPoint Bank of Italy)
Progress report on the OECD Bank Profitability database  (M. Chavoix-Mannato, OECD) - COM/STD/DAF(2006)9
Report on OECD countries’ practices  (M. Chavoix-Mannato, OECD) - COM/STD/DAF(2006)7
Consolidation of financial account and balance sheet account data in OECD databases - COM/STD/DAF(2006)1   - COM/STD/DAF(2006)1/ADD1   
Consolidation of financial data in SNA 12. Summary of countries' comments - COM/STD/DAF(2006)10 - COM/STD/DAF(2006)10/ADD1
Summary of countries' comments - COM/STD/DAF(2006)8
The securitization process in the OECD countries: an overview - COM/STD/DAF(2006)2
The securitization process in Spain. Developments and practical issues - COM/STD/DAF(2006)11
Discussion note on HIPC and exceptional financing in the balance of payments statistics:  issues for discussion - STD/NAES(2005)2
Concessional debt - STD/NAES(2005)3
Report from the moderator of the IMF EDG on non performing loans (Adriaan Bloem, IMF) (2004) - powerpoint A. Bloem
Repurchase agreements:  final report of moderator (John Joisce, IMF) - STD/NAES/FA(2004)3
Report from the moderator of the IMF EDG on non performing loans (IMF) STD/NAES(2003)22 
External debt of developing countries (D. Guz, OECD) (2003) [oral report] - PowerPoint: M. Guz
The financial structures of European countries (Italy) - Room document 15 [2002] 
The measurement of unquoted shares (Eurostat) - STD/NA(2002)21
Valuing unlisted shares: the contribution of the INSEE financial links survey (INSEE) - STD/NA(2002)34 - PowerPoint - M. Bloem - PowerPoint - M. Picart 
The situation of financial accounts data in OECD databases (OECD) (2002) - PowerPoint
 Who owns mutual life insurance companies (Japan) - Room document 9 [2002] 
The macro-economic statistical treatment of reverse transactions (IMF) - STD/NA(2002)23
The macro-economic statistical treatment of non performing loans (IMF) - STD/NA(2002)24
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12 - Financial Services
EDG Financial Services (A. Nordin)
EDG Non-Life Insurance (F. Lequiller)
Final report of the task force on financial services [P. Stauffer, OFS - Switzerland] - STD/NAES(2005)4 
Measuring the production of financial corporation:
Progress report: task force on financial services (Anders Nordin, OECD) (2004) - powerpoint A. Nordin
Conclusion and agenda of next WPFS (Patrick O'Hagan, chair of the WPFS)
OECD task force on financial services (banking services) in National Accounts (2003) - PowerPoint: M. Schreyer
- Draft report of the task force on financial services (OECD/OFS) - STD/NAES(2003)8 
- Background report (OECD) - STD/NAES(2003)9
- Summary and conclusions (OECD) - STD/NAES(2003)10
Current developments in the allocation of FISIM:
- the recent change in the US accounts (BEA) - STD/NAES(2003)20
- the plan for change in Japan (ESRI) - STD/NAES(2003)15 
- the European regulation of FISIM (Eurostat) - STD/NAES(2003)13
Firs report of the task force on financial statistics (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)19 - PowerPoint - P. Schreyer - PowerPoint - P. Stauffer
Comments on the treatment of holding gains and losses in the national accounts (United States) - STD/NA(2001)27
What services for what society? How should the services provided by financial intermediaries in a modern society be measured? (Switzerland) - STD/NA(2001)13
A note on the calculation of FISIM in Korea (Korea) - STD/NA(2000)39
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13 - General government accounts
Survey on classification practice of public enterprises [J.P. Dupuis, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)19
Public-Private partnerships (including BOOT schemes) [C. Aspden, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)11 -PowerPoint
Privatisations and SPVs [J.P. Dupuis, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)5
Earnings and funding of public corporations [P. de Rougemont, Eurostat] - STD/NAES(2005)7
Progress report from the chair of the Task Force on Harmonisation of Public Sector Accounts (J.P. Dupuis, OECD) (2004) - powerpoint J.P. Dupuis
Tax revenues and tax credits (Jean Pierre Dupuis, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)9
Government/public sector/private sector - delineation issues (G. Jenkinson - ONS/UK) - STD/NAES(2004)10 
Accrual of earnings on equity stakes of government into public corporations in the SNA (P. de Rougemont - EUROSTAT) - STD/NAES(2004)11
The joint project for harmonizing international standards on general government accounts (J.P. Dupuis, OECD) (2003)  [oral report] - PowerPoint: M. Laliberté
The situation of general government data in the OECD national accounts database - STD/NAES(2003)19 
Comparison of data from the OECD Revenue Statistics and National Accounts (OECD, Chris Heady) [oral report] - PowerPoint: M. Heady
Comparability of the perimeter of general government: 
- classification of universities (OECD) - STD/NAES(2003)4
- the situation in the UK (ONS) - STD/NAES(2003)7
- the italian general government sector (ISTAT) - STD/NAES(2003)16
Accrual accounting in Canada (K. Wilson and Terry Moore, Statcan, Canada) (2003) - PowerPoint: M. Moore
Public nature of funds accumulated in Polish open pension funds (CSO - Poland) - STD/NAES(2003) room doc2
Final recommendations on taxes on holding gains  (2003) (F. Lequiller, OECD) - PowerPoint: M. Lequiller
New definition of general government total expenditures (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)13
Principles of accrual recording of general government accounts in the Australian National Accounts (Australia) - STD/NA(2002)29
Individual consumption provided to households by general government (Italy) - STD/NA(2000)05
Recording taxes on an accruals basis (Denmark) - STD/NA(2000)16
Recording of taxes in national accounts and government finance statistics (IMF) - STD/NA(2000)17
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14 - Household wealth
A comparison of household assets: USA/Japan/Europe (OECD-Pioneer-OEE) - STD/NA(2002)20
Household Financial Wealth:  trends, structures & valuation methods (Denmark) - Room document 5 [2002]
Wealth Statistics for Australia - recent developments (Australia) - STD/NA(2001)17
Augmenting and disaggregating estimates of household wealth (Australia) - STD/NA(2000)04
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15 - Input-output
OECD input-output database (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)22
The SNA93 definition of basic prices with particular reference to transport margins: is the SNA definition flawed? (Australia) - STD/NA(2001)11
Non regular foreign input of labour in the new national accounts estimates (Italia) - STD/NA(2001)30
Presentation of the Greek NAMEA tables for the period 1988/1996 (Greece) - STD/NA(2000)06
Excel file containing the Greek NAMEA table for 1994 (Greece) - STD/NA(2000)06
The magic triangle of input-output tables (Germany) - STD/NA(2000)07
Using input-output tables for economic analysis (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)09
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16 - Insurance
Report of the task force on insurance and catastrophe: final recommendations (OECD) - STD/NAES(2003)2 
First report of the task force on insurance (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)6
Non-life insurance background material (OECD) - Room documents 13 [2002] 
Handling disaster insurance in the national accounts (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)18
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17 - Interest
The treatment of real interest in the national accounts (UK) - STD/NA(2000)12
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18 - ITC measurement
EDG Software (F. Lequiller)
Report on software (Charles Aspden, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)22
Software investment in the New Zealand National Accounts (Jeff Cope, Statistics New Zealand) - STD/NAES(2004)12
General government (and other non market) assets: cost of capital services (Anne Harrison, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)16
The 2004 survey on implementation of recommendations on software [oral report] (2003) - PowerPoint: M. Lequiller
Final report of the task force on software measurement in the national accounts (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)2 Lessons from the software task force (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)3
Background document report of the Eurostat task force on software (Eurostat) - Room document 1 [2002] 
Accounting for software licences in national accounts (UK) - Room document 8 [2002]
Accounting for software licences in national accounts (OECD) - Room document 12 [2002]
Calculating multi-factor productivity for Finland (Finland) - STD/NA(2001)10
ICT contribution to output growth: results from a study and some statistical issues (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)12
The ICT account: assessment in France over the last decade (France) - STD/NA(2001)36
ICT deflation and growth: a sensitivity analysis (United Kingdom) - STD/NA(2001)31
Task force on the measurement of software in national accounts (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)3
Objectives and organisation of the Task Force (OECD) 2001
- draft agenda for the Task force - STD/NA/A(2001)2
- software measurement issues - STD/NA(2001)14
- draft questionnaire (updated 9 November 2001) - STD/NA(2001)15
Estimation of software in the US NIPA (United States) - STD/NA(2001)25
Estimation of software in the French National Accounts (France) - STD/NA(2001)26
Capitalization of software in the Canadian National Accounts (Canada) - STD/NA(2001)2
Estimation of software in the UK National Accounts: recent developments (United Kingdom) - STD/NA(2001)23
The treatment of software inclusion in capital formation and treatment of R&D performed in connection with development of software (Israel) - STD/NA(2001)4
Direct impact of new technologies on economic growth (France) - STD/NA(2000)08
Measuring e-commerce in the U.S. economic accounts: What can we do? (USA) - STD/NA(2000)36
Software in the national accounts: recent developments (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)37
Report on recording expenditures on the Y2K bug in the national accounts (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)38
Progress made in the measurement of activities in start-ups (Israel) - STD/NA/RD(2000)05
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19 - Miscellaneous
Goods for processing [A. Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)16
Note on the probluems with registration of transactions in connection with "fabless" enterprises - cross-border outsourcing - STD/NAES/RD(2004)1
Terms of reference of the new Working Party on National Accounts - WPNA (François Lequiller, OECD) -  STD/NAES(2004)8
The treatment of provisions in the SNA:  issue paper (François Lequiller, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)7
Provisions and value adjustments in National Accounts and Business Accounting (France) - STD/NAES/RD(2004)3
Final recommendations on taxes on holding gains (OECD) - STD/NAES(2003)1
Tables on imputations in the NIPA accounts (USA) - STD/NA(2002)14
Sources of data for international comparisons of company profitability (UK) - STD/NA(2002)27
Quality measures for australian systems of economic accounts (Australia) - STD/NA(2001)19
Quality in national accounts (International Monetary Fund) -  (Bloem Document - 2001)
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20 - Non-financial assets, intangibles, R&D, capital stock & services
Capitalization of research and development:  report R&D task force (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)11
Capitalization of research and development: country experiences (satellite accounts, surveys, first estimates). (USA, Israel) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)1 - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)15 
The measurement of capital services [Anne Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)17
Measurement of capital stocks for government in the UK [N. Griffin, ONS, UK] - STD/NAES(2005)22
Measuring capital in Japan, challenges and future directions [K. Nomura, Keio University - T. Futakami, ESRI, Japan] - STD/NAES(2005)6
A new method for measuring capital stocks in the Netherlands [M. De Haan, CBS, Netherlands] -STD/NAES(2005)8
Classification and terminology of non financial assets [A. Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)13
Asset boundary of non-produced intangible assets and other intangible assets [C. Aspden, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)14
Definition of economic assets [A. Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)15
Amortisation of non-produced assets [C. Aspden, OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)12
Licenses and leases [A. Harrison, editor SNA review] - STD/NAES(2005)10
Progress report of Canberra II group (Charles Aspden, OECD) (2004) - powerpoint C. Aspden
Treatment of originals and copies (Nadim Ahmad, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)2
Databases (Nadim Ahmad, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)1
Introducing capital services into the production accounts (Nadim Ahmad, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)15
Mineral exploration (Anne Harrison, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)17
Treatment of land and cultivated assets (Charles Aspden, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)3
First report of the Canberra II group on the measurement of non financial assets(OECD):
- Minutes of the first substantive meeting - STD/NAES(2003)11
- draft agenda STD/NAES(2003)12
The RD-SNA task force (Israël) - Room document 14 [2002]
Group on the measurement of non-financial assets (Canberra II) - objectives & mandate (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)35
Scoping paper issues for consideration by the group (Australia) - STD/NA(2002)4
National accounting treatment of mobile phone licences (2001)
Measurement of capital services: preliminary results for eight OECD countries (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)20
UK work on capital stock and capital services (United Kingdom) - STD/NA(2001)6
Experimental estimates of human capital for Australia (Australia) - STD/NA(2001)16
Bridging the GAP between R&D data and national accounts (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)9
Permits and intangible assets (United Kingdom) - STD/NA(2001)24
Intangible assets (France) - STD/NA(2001)37
Asset characteristics and consequences for national accounts (OECD) - STD/NA(2001)38
Report of the special ISWGNA meeting on the treatment of mobile phone licences; and some questions (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)13
The treatment of payments for mobile phone licences in the national accounts (UK) - STD/NA(2000)14
The treatment of sales of mobile phone licenses in the national accounts (IMF) - STD/NA(2000)15
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21 - Non-market output
Report of the UK Atkinson review on non market output (Tony Atkinson United Kingdom)  (2004) - only available on line - powerpoint T. Atkinson          
Lessons from the UK Atkinson review (François lequiller, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)21
Measuring the volume of government outputs (ONS) - STD/NAES(2003)14
Direct measures of government output: a few conceptual and practical issues (United Kingdom) - STD/NA(2001)28
Developments in the measurement of general government output (UK) - STD/NA(2000)26
Development in the measurement of general government output (UK) - STD/NA/RD(2000)03
Non-market output - recent work by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (Australia) - STD/NA/RD(2000)04
Volume measurement of education (Netherlands) - STD/NA(2000)27
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22 - Other international statistical manuals
An information note on updating the fifth edition of the IMF's balance of payment manual - STD/NAES(2003)5 
The OECD glossary of statistical terms (OECD) STD/NA(2002)15
Manual of NPIs (France) STD/NA(2002)38
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23 - Pension funds
Report from the special task force [moderators] (2005) - PowerPoint      
Employer retirement schemes [R. Walton, R. Mink - UK/ECB] - STD/NAES(2005)20
Pension schemes (Adriaan Bloem, IMF) (2004) - powerpoint F. Lequiller - powerpoint A. Bloem
Accounting for implicit pension liabilites (4.6/04)
.   Contribution of OECD/ECO:   word document
  Contribution of IMF/OECD-STD:   word document
.   Contribution of UK/ABS:  slides
Interim report of the moderator of the IMF EDG on pension schemes (IMF) - STD/NAES(2003)21  -  PowerPoint:  M. de Rougemont
Interim report of the European task forces on pension schemes (Eurostat) - STD/NAES(2003)17 -  PowerPoint: M. Besnard
The point of view of business accountants:  IASB19 (OECD) - STD/NAES(2003)3 - PowerPoint:  M. Yermo, M. Pater
The treatment of general government pension schemes (IMF) - Room document 11 [2002]
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24 - PPP & national accounts
Questionnaire on the measurement of housing services in the national accounts (OECD/Eurostat) - STD/NA(2002)11 - PowerPoint 
Various problems in the interpretation of PPPs (France) - STD/NA(2002)16 
Assessment of PPP time series (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)17
Consistency between PPP Benchmarks & National Prices and Volume Indices (Denmark) -  Room document 3 [2002]
PPPs: Progress report (OECD) -  STD/NA(2001)34
Proposed expenditure classification in the OECD-Eurostat PPP Programme (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)22 
The draft expenditure classification (OECD) - STD/NA/RD(2000)01
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25 - Revisions, balancing methods
The QNA revision database (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)9 
Methods for balancing supply-use tables (SUT) (Norway) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)2
Integration of SUT and National Accounts (Italy) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)8
Revisions in quarterly GDP of OECD countries [T. Di Fonzo, University of Padova/OECD] - STD/NAES(2005)24
Managing supply-use Benchmarking in the Australian National Accounts (Carl Obst, ABS) - STD/NAES(2004)4
Quarterly supply and use tables in the Australian National Accounts (Carl Obst, ABS) - STD/NAES(2004)5
Contribution by the BEA (Sumiye Okubo, BEA) - STD/NAES(2004)23
Coherence adjustments in the UK national accounts (UK) - STD/NA(99)50
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26 - Satellite accounts, sustainable development
Australia: ICT satellite accounts (Australia) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)4 - STD/CSTAT/WPNA/RD(2006)2
Country experiences in dealing with the NPISH sector (Japan) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)13
A framework for nonmarket accounting (Katharine G. Abraham, Christopher Mackie) - room document - not for discussion  - STD/NAES/RD(2004)2
Experimental Satellite accounts "Knowledge" (Poland) - STD/NA(2001)5
SEEA Manual (OECD) 2001
Disaggregating the household sector (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)01
A simple module linking social protection statistics and the national accounts (Netherlands) - STD/NA(2000)02
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27 - Savings
Comparability of savings rates & profit ratios (joint OECD/ECB project) - STD/NAES(2003)18 
Various measures of the saving rate & their interpretation (France) - STD/NA(2002)5
Alternative measures of household savings (USA) - STD/NA(2002)36
Measurement of saving rates: perspective from a user economist (OECD) - STD/NA(2002)7
Employee stock options & holding gains: an empirical paper from the Finnish household sector point of view (Finland) - STD/NA(2002)8
Alternative measures of savings (Australia) - STD/NA(2002)9 - PowerPoint - M. Harper - PowerPoint - M. Moulton
Saving rates in Europe (Eurostat) - Room document 2 [2002]
Issues in measuring household net saving and wealth (United States) - STD/NA(2001)29
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28 - SNA implementation & revision, international comparability, ISWGNA
The new Chinese national accounts (China) - STD/CSTAT(2006)5 
Progress report (Project manager, SNA review) and Results of the survey on implementation of ISIC and SNA 1993 Rev 1 (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)5 
Progress report on the review of the SNA:  decisions taken at the July 2005 meeting of the AEG and agenda of the next AEG meeting [C. Carson, SNA review project manager] - PowerPoint
The background to the 1993 revision of the System of National Accounts (SNA) - Anne Harrison, OECD (updated May 2005)
Progress Report on the Review of the SNA by ISWGNA chairman (Charles Aspden, OECD) (2004) -powerpoint C. Aspden
Draft SNA - USA (Susan Hume-McIntosh, Fed, USA) - STD/NAES/FA(2004)6
Work program for updating the SNA, paper prepared by ISWGNA - STDNAES(2003)6 - PowerPoint: M. Newson
Measurement of output, value added, GDP in Canada & United states:  similarities & differences (Stats Canada) - STD/DOC(2003)4 - room document 1
Information on ISWGNA proceedings (UNSD) - STD/NA(2002)30
Beyond 1993: the system of national accounts & the new economy (Australia) - Room document 6 [2002] 
The system of national accounts for the new economy: what should change? (USA) - Room document 7 [2002]
The 2001 Revision of the Canadian System of National Accounts: record of revisited issues (Canada) -STD/NA(2001)1
Inventory of country practices regarding essential measurement issues in national accounts (OECD) -STD/NA(2001)35
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29 - Stock options
The treatment of stock options in the national accounts (Eurostat) - STD/NA(2002)22
Progress report on stock options (Australia) - STD/NA(2002)25
Accounting & fiscal aspects of stock options plans in Italy (Italy) - Room document 10 [2002]
Note on the treatment of employee stock options granted by non-resident corporations (Israël) - Room document 4 [2002]
Share (Stock) Options (2001)
Stock Options (Eurostat) - STD/NA(2001)7
Employee share options in Finland (Finland) - STD/NA(2000)31
Employee share compensation and its treatment in the national accounts (Australia) - STD/NA(2000)33
The treatment of stock options in the U.S. economic accounts (USA) - STD/NA(2000)34
Employee stock options and national accounts - using economic theory to clarify measurement issues (Canada) - STD/NA(2000)35
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30 - Transfer costs
Ownership transfer costs (Charles Aspden, OECD) - STD/NAES(2004)14
What is an asset worth? (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)30
Summary and tentative conclusions by the moderator (Peter van de Ven, Statistics Netherlands) of the electronic discussion group (EDG) on transfer costs - STD/NA/RD(2000)02
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31 - Underground economy
The estimation of the cash economy in Australia (ABS) - STD/NAES(2003)26
Empirical procedure in measuring non-observed economy in GDP estimates (Greece) - STD/NA(2000)19
Macroeconomic approach to the estimate of the underground economy (Italy) - STD/NA(2000)20
Handbook on "The non-observed economy" (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)21
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32 - Volume estimates & productivity
OECD Handbook on hedonics (2004) (J. Triplett, consultant for OECD)
Comparability of productivity measures (OECD) - STD/NAES(2003)25
The expending role of hedonic methods in the official statistics of the United States (United States) - STD/NA(2001)21
Hedonic Prices indexes for Computers in Australia(Australia) - STD/NA(2001)18
Consistent aggregation and chaining of price and quantity measures (Germany) - STD/NA(2000)23
Chain volumes based on the Hillinger aggregation method (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)24
How the chain additivity issue is treated in the U.S. economic accounts (USA) - STD/NA(2000)25
The chain index for GDP volume measures: the Italian experience (Italy) - STD/NA(2000)11
The OECD's Productivity manual (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)28
Metadata on calculation of constant price value added for services (OECD) - STD/NA(2000)29
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Modification of classification and terminology in the SNA [R. Mink, ECB]
-- Classification and terminology of the financial corporations in the updated SNA - STD/NAES/FA(2005)2 - PowerPoint
-- Classification and terminology of financial assets and liabilities in the updated SNA - STD/NAES/FA(2005)1 - PowerPoint

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