Working Party on National Accounts, La Défense - Tour Europe – Salle des Nations, 14-16 October 2008

Heads of National Accounts (updated on 8 October 2008)
How to get "Tour Europe"
Map of "La Defense"
Metro Map
List of hotels

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
(as of 10 October 2008)

Morning 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. – Afternoon 2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

 

14th October: joint meeting with Working Party on Financial Statistics

 

1.

 Adoption of the draft agenda

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA/A(2008)1

2.

Adoption of the draft summary record  of the last meeting
Adoption du compte rendu succinct de la dernière réunion

STD/CSTAT/WPNA/M(2007)1

STD/CSTAT/WPNA/M(2007)1

3.

 SNA Review

 -  Progress report SNA Manager
 -  Update on implementation plans 

 
 4.   Accession process to the OECD
 -  Review of national accounts in accession countries (OECD)

 STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)1

 5. 

 GDP and beyond – recent developments
 -  Update on Commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress (Stiglitz Commission) (Jean-Etienne Chapron, INSEE)

 -  Reconciling micro and macro estimates of household disposable income (OECD)

Stiglitz Commission paper

 

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)2

 6. 

 Discrepancy between financial accounts and capital accounts (Hans Wouters, CBS Netherlands)

 -  Panel discussion

    .  Patrick O'Hagan (Canada)

    .  Hans Wouters (Netherlands)

    .   Susan Hume McIntosh (USA)

 

 

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)24

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)3

room document

 7. 

 Other topics for joint meeting
 -  An enhanced methodology of compiling financial intermediation services indirectly measured (ECB)
    .  Eurostat
 -  Assessing the efficiency of early release estimates of economic statistics (OECD) 

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)4

room document

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)5

 

Cocktail

15th October

 

 8. 

  Non-financial assets (1)
 -  Survey on estimates of land (OECD)

 -  Survey on estimates of subsoil assets (OECD)

 -  Estimating buildings, other structures and land in the perspective of compiling balance sheets by institutional sector (ISTAT)

 -  The japanese projects on the measurement of assets (Japan)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)6
STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)7

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)8

 

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)9

9.

Non-financial assets (2)

 -  Handbook on measurement of intellectual property products (OECD)

 -  Survey on treatment of software (Jiemin GUO - OECD)

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)10

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)11

 10.

 Non-market Services
 -  Handbook on volume measures for health and education services(OECD)
 -  Country presentations

    .  New method for deflation of hospital services (Germany)

    .  Results of the feasibility study for a volume method including a direct outcome based quality correction for secondary education (Netherlands)

     .  Comparision of input and output-based volume measures of education (Italy)

    .  Volume measures on health and education (Ricardo M. de Moraes, Brazil)
 -  Report Taskforce on Health PPPs (OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)12

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)13

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)14

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)15

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)16


16th October

 

11. Benchmarking and creation of long time series of NA data
 -  Country presentations

    .  Netherlands

    .  Breakdown of value-added in France, 1949-2007 (le partage de la valeur ajoutée en France, 1949-2007) (Pierre-Alain Pionnier, France)

   .  South African national accounts benchmarking experience dealing with large level changes in data and the influence on national accounts time series data (Gerhardt Bouwer, Statistics South Africa)

 

 

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)18

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)19

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)19

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)20

 

 

 

12.

 OECD Databases

  -  Annual national accounts

    .  Data transmission

    .  Proposal for new publication

 -  Quarterly national accounts:  data transmission

 

 

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)21

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)22

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)23

13. 

 UN-ECE/OECD/Eurostat Working Group on the Impact of Globalisation on National Accounts
 -  Report on first meeting (April 2008) 

Room document

14.

Proposal for a unified classification of trade in goods and trade in services (OECD)

STD/CSTAT/WPNA(2008)25

15.

Elections of the Bureau  

 


 
  

 

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