11th NBS-OECD Workshop on National Accounts, 25-28 September 2007, Beijing, China

Draft Agenda
(updated on 19 September 2007)

 

Morning 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. – Afternoon 2:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Tuesday 25 September 2007

Chair:  XU Xianchun

1.

Welcome and introduction

2.

International co-operation between OECD countries and China in the area of statistics and national accounts in particular

Presentations: 
China, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) - XIE, Fuzhan

United States - GLASSMAN, Cynthia (Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce)

Canada - JULLION, Roger

Lunch

Chair:  PENG, Zhilong

 

Korea - AHN, Kil-Hyo (Bank of Korea) - PDF doc. englishPDF doc. chinese

OECD - SCHREYER, Paul - PPT doc. english

3.

Developments in Chinese national accounts

Progress with NBS' participation in the OECD data dissemination programme - ZHAO, Hong (NBS) - PDF doc. chinese - PDF doc. english

4.

Update on SNA Revision

SCHREYER,  Paul - OECD - PDF doc. english - PDF doc. chinese - PPT doc. english

 

Welcome dinner by Commissioner of NBS

 

Wednesday, 26 September 2007

 

Chair:  SCHREYER, Paul

5. 

Input-output and supply-use tables as a framework for annual and quarterly accounts 

 

Improvement in input-output survey and compilation of input-output table in 2007 - CHEN, Jie (NBS) - PDF doc. chinese - PDF doc. english

Supply-use tables; techniques for consistent estimates of missing data - AHMAD, Nadim (OECD) - PPT doc. english

Integrating input-output tables with the national income and product accounts (NIPA) - GUO, Jiemin (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis) - PPT doc. english

6.

Investment 

Estimation of investment data in Canada - PASCAL, Michel (Statistics Canada) - PPT doc. english

Lunch

Chair:  PENG, Zhilong

7.

Quarterly accounts 

Estimation of quarterly accounts in India - KOLLI, Ramesh (Ministry of Statistics, India) - PDF Doc. english - PDF doc. chinese
De-cumulting cumulative quarterly accounts - BLADES, Derek (Consultant to OECD) - PDF Doc. english - PDF doc. chinese

8.

Volume measures 

 

Improvement in real GDP estimation by production approach - ZHANG, Dongyou (NBS) - PDF doc. chinese - PDF doc. english

Index numbers in the Chinese national accounts and their further development - ZHAO, Hong (NBS) - PDF doc. english

 

Thursday, 27 September 2007

Reserved for social event

 

  

Friday, 28 September 2007

Chair:  DU, Weiqun

9.

Volume measures (continued)

Lessons from the 2005 International Comparison Project - BLADES, Derek (Consultant to OECD) - PDF Doc. english  - PDF doc. chinese - Appendix  PDF doc. english

10.

GDP Exhaustiveness 

 

Framework for measuring GDP exhautiveness - an example from transition countries in the Western Balkans - AHMAD, Nadim (OECD) - PDF doc. english - PPT doc. english

Improving GDP exhaustiveness - an example from India - KOLLI,  Ramesh (Ministry of Statistics, India)   PDF doc. english

11.

Conclusions

 

Farewell Lunch by NBS

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