Working Party on National Accounts, La Défense - Tour Europe – Salle des Nations, 3-5 October 2007

Heads of National Accounts (updated on 8 January 2007)

List of participants

Draft Summary Record -  STD/CSTAT/WPNA/M(2007)1 (updated on 28 November 2007)

 

In line with OECD policy to reduce paper consumption, delegates are invited to download the papers from this location and bring them to the meeting. Only a very limited number of paper copies will be made available at the meeting for those delegates who could not bring meeeting documents with them.

Draft Agenda
(updated on 28 September 07)

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

 

3 October 2007

(common day with Working Party on Financial Statistics) Chair: B. Moulton

Adoption of the agenda

STD/CSTAT/WPNA/A(2007)1/REV1

Minutes of previous meeting held on
10-13 October 2006

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA/M(2006)1

SNA review (for information and discussion)

1.

Progress report SNA review (Project manager and editor)

 ppt - Carson

2.

Implementation plans (G. Gueye, Eurostat - C. Aspden, OECD)

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)11

ppt- Eurostat

ppt - OECD

3.

Developments of national accounts in emerging countries

 
 

--  Brasil (R. Olinto, Statistical Office)

 

--  India (S. Sharma, Ministry of Statistics)

 

--  Chile (C. Escobar, Bank of Chile)

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)22

ppt - Brazil

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)5

ppt - India

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)21/REV1

ppt - Chile

Pension schemes (for information and discussion)

4.

The Canadian satellite account for pensions (P. O'Hagan, Statistics Canada)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)23

ppt - Canada

5.

Report of EU task force and implementation of supplementary table (R. Mink, European Central Bank)

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)12

ppt - ECB

Non financial assets (for information and discussion)

6.

Update of OECD handbook on measuring capital (,P. Schreyer, OECD)

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)2

ppt - OECD

7. 

Survey on estimation of land and structures (C. Aspden, OECD)

 (STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)8
available on OLIS only

ppt - OECD

8.

Country experiences in estimating households’ non financial assets

 
 

--  Australia (C. Obst, ABS)

 

--  Canada (P. O'Hagan, Statistics Canada)

 

--  Germany (O. Schmalwasser, Federal Statistical Office and M.P. Radke, Deutsche Bundesbank)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)16

ppt - Australia

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)18

ppt - Canada

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)10

ppt - Germany

9. 

 Conclusion and agenda of next WPFS (P. O'Hagan, WPFS Chair)  

Cocktail

4 October 2007

Research and development (for information and discussion) Chair: C. Ligeti

10.

--  OECD handbook on the measurement of intellectual property (C. Aspden, OECD)

--  Handbook on measuring intellectual property products:  draft chapter on meneral exploration and evaluation (C. Obst, ABS)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)7

ppt - OECD

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)17

ppt - Australia

11.

Country experiences in developing satellite accounts for R&D

 
 

--  United States (Bureau of Economic Analysis)


--  Netherlands (Central Bureau of Statistics)

 

Room document - PDF

ppt - BEA

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)14

ppt - Netherlands

Volume of Health and Education. (for information and discussion

12.

OECD handbook on the measurement of volume output of health and education (P. Schreyer, OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)3

ppt - OECD

Satellite accounts: environment. (for information and discussion)

13.

Integrated environmental economic accounting and OECD work on material flow accounts (M. De Haan, Chair of London Group)

 

14.

Country experiences in satellite environment accounting

 
 

--  Netherlands (Central Bureau of Statistics)


--  Japan Regional Hybrid Environment Accounts (ESRI)


--  European Union (J. Cabeça) - Eurostat (E. Mollgaard)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)20

ppt - Netherlands

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)13

ppt - Japan

ppt - Eurostat

OECD databases (for decision) Chair: P. Schreyer

15.

The situation of annual national accounts data and metadata transmission to the OECD, and NAWWE progress report (E. Bolton, OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)9

ppt - OECD

16.

The situation of quarterly national accounts data and metadata transmission to the OECD (R. Dkhissi, OECD)

Revisions in quarterly GDP of OECD countries: an update (R. McKenzie, Z. Adam - OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)6

ppt - OECD

STD/STAT/WPNA(2007)15

ppt - OECD

5 October 2007

17.

Analysis of public deficit/surplus revisions (J. Nogueira Martins,  European Commission)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)4

ppt - EC

18.

Calculations of changes in inventories (C. Aspden, OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)19/REV1
available on OLIS only

ppt - OECD

Open session: Chair: B. Moulton 

19.

New developments in balancing methodologies (Bureau of Economic Analysis, USA)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA/RD(2007)1

ppt - BEA

20.

A Product Approach for an ICT Satellite Account
(U. Greiner, Federal Statistical Office of Germany)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2007)1

ppt - Germany

21.

Closing session: future work programme

 

 

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