Working Party on National Accounts, La Défense - Tour Europe, 10-12 October 2006

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Working Party on National Accounts
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Tour Europe – Salle des Nations
October 10-12, 2006

Morning 9:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. – Afternoon 2:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Delegates are invited to download the papers. Paper copies will not be available during the meeting.

 

October 10: (common day with Working Party on Financial Statistics)

•  Organisation of WPNA (B. Moulton, WPNA chair)
•  Adoption of the draft agenda - STD/CSTAT/WPNA/A(2006)1
•  Minutes of previous meeting held on October 11-14, 2005 - STD/NAES/M(2005)1

SNA review (for information and discussion): Chair: B. Moulton
1. 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 - (PowerPoint - Carson) - (PowerPoint - Aspden)
2. Pension schemes (Moderator) - (PowerPoint) - (room document)
3. Leases and licenses (Moderator) - (PowerPoint)
4. Classifications of financial corporations and of financial assets (ECB) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)14 - STD/CSTAT/WPNA/RD(2006)3 - (PowerPoint)
5. Program of work 2007-2008 (for information and discussion) - (WPFS Chair)
6. Conclusion and agenda of next WPFS (WPFS Chair)

The treatment of standardised guarantees in the new System of National Accounts: consultation of the AEG - (PDF document)

Cocktail

October 11

Implementation of new SNA (continued, for information and discussion): Chair: F. Lequiller
7. Capitalization of research and development:  report R&D task force (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)11 - (PowerPoint)
8. Capitalization of research and development: country experiences (satellite accounts, surveys, first estimates). (USA, Israel) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)1 - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)15 - (PowerPoint Israël)(PowerPoint BEA)
9. Towards a better measure of non market output: Report of the joint OECD/UK/Norway seminar (OECD) - (PowerPoint)

Methods of national accounts (for information and discussion): Chair: C. Ligeti
10.   Methods for balancing supply-use tables (SUT) (Norway) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)2 - (PowerPoint)
11. Integration of SUT and National Accounts (Italy) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)8
12. Country experiences in dealing with the NPISH sector (Japan) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)13 - (PowerPoint)
13. New estimates of hours worked in Australia (Australia) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)3 - STD/CSTAT/WPNA/RD(2006)1 - (PowerPoint)

Organisation of national accounts departments: Chair: C. Ligeti
14. Survey of resources and organization of national accounts departments (OECD):  "Paper STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)17 available, but only in OLISnet" - ZIP documents
15. Country experiences in training in national accounts and in documentation for users. (USA) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)16 - (PowerPoint)
16. The OECD national accounts manual for students (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)7 - (PowerPoint)

October 12 

OECD databases (for decision): Chair: F. Lequiller
17. The situation of annual NA data and metadata transmission to the OECD, and NAWWE progress report (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)12 - (PowerPoint)
18. The situation of quarterly National Accounts data transmission to the OECD (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)6 - (PowerPoint)
19. OECD.STAT: the new dissemination policy of the OECD (OECD) - (PowerPoint)
20. The QNA revision database (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)9 - (PowerPoint)
21. Calculation of contributions to growth (OECD) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)10 - (PowerPoint)

Open session: Chair: B. Moulton
22. Australia: ICT satellite accounts (Australia) - STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2006)4 - STD/CSTAT/WPNA/RD(2006)2 - (PowerPoint)
23. The new Chinese national accounts (China) - STD/CSTAT(2006)5 - (PowerPoint)
24. Closing session: future work program - Conclusions, Brent Moulton

For information: main items of the agenda of the first day of the Working Party on Financial Statistics (October 9, same room, 9:30)

Collection and dissemination of financial accounts (OECD)
Bank profitability database: progress reports (OECD)

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