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1.1. Contact organisation | STATEC |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Satellite accounts |
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1.5. Contact mail address | 13, rue Erasme - B.P. 304 L-2013 Luxembourg |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 30/04/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 30/04/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 30/04/2024 |
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3.1. Data description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA) provide an aggregate overview, in thousand tonnes per year, of the material flows into and out of an economy. EW-MFA cover solid, gaseous, and liquid materials, except for bulk flows of water and air. Like the system of national accounts, EW-MFA constitute a multi-purpose information system. The detailed material flows provide a rich empirical database for numerous analytical purposes. Further, EW-MFA are used to derive various material flow indicators. The National Statistical Institute (NSI) sent to Eurostat on yearly basis the EW-MFA. The accounts comprise the following reporting tables:
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3.2. Classification system | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EW-MFA record physical flows of materials broken down by type of flow and by type of material. The type of flow dimension corresponds to the EW-MFA questionnaire reporting tables and derived indicators, namely:
The breakdown by type of material employs a classification of materials. This EW-MFA classification of materials is hierarchical with main material flow categories (1-digit level). Each main category is further broken down, maximal down to 4-digit-level: 1-digit: material category; 2-digit: material class; 3-digit: material group; 4-digit: material sub-group. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The data refer to national economies as defined in the system of national accounts. |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conceptually economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA) belong to the international system of environmental economic accounting (SEEA-Central Framework). Furthermore, EW-MFA is one of several physical modules of Eurostat's programme on European environmental economic accounts. It is covered by Regulation (EU) No. 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts. EW-MFA are closely related to concepts and definitions of national accounts. Most notably they follow the residence principle, i.e. they record material flows related to resident unit's activities, regardless where those occur geographically. Further methodological guidelines are provided in various publications by Eurostat (see Eurostat website > Environment > Methodology, heading: 'Material flows and resource productivity'). For more detailed information please see also 3.1. |
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3.5. Statistical unit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Statistical units change according to the different data sources (e.g. agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics, production statistics, geological surveys, energy statistics, foreign trade statistics etc.) which EW-MFA are based on. |
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3.6. Statistical population | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EW-MFA refer to the entire national economy of the reporting country (see also 3.3 'Coverage - sector')). EW-MFA include all materials (excluding water and air) crossing the system boundary (between the environment and the economy) on the input side or on the output side. The economy is demarcated by the conventions of the national accounting system (resident units). Material inputs to the economy cover extractions of natural resources (excluding water and air) from the natural environment and imports of material products (goods) from the rest of the world economy (ROW). Material outputs are disposals of materials to the natural environment and exports of material products and waste to the ROW. Information on natural resources extracted and traded products is provided by different statistical units. |
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3.7. Reference area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The national economy |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Please see the table in 3.8.1. STATEC is now producing MFA for T-1, as well as tables F and G. |
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3.8.1. Coverage – Time: by questionnaire table | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3.9. Base period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable because EW-MFA are not reported as indices. |
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The unit of measure is thousand tonnes. |
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The data refer to the calendar years. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
Economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA) are legally covered by Regulation (EU) 691/2011 on European Environmental Economic Accounts. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Not applicable in national level this information is required at European level only. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recitals 23-27, 31-32 and Articles 20-26) applies. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Confidential data are not shown. The most common approach is to present only aggregation of the confidential data point with the non-confidential data that is the nearest suitable data point. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Not available |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Not available |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Not available |
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Annually |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Not available. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Not available. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Data tables could be found on EUROSTAT website but also on the Web portal on official statistics in Luxembourg http://www.statistiques.public.lu The Web portal permits an online visualization of the data under tabular or graphic formats. Data could also be download under the following format : .xls .csv .xml |
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10.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
Data tables are only available online |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not available. |
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10.5.1. Metadata - consultations | |||
Will be provided by EUROSTAT. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Not available. |
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10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Not available. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Not available. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Not available. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Not available. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
Not available. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Table A (Production), Table B (imports), Table D (exports), Table G (Balancing items) and Table I (RME) are provided by STATEC and are complete. Table F(Domestic processed output) is provided by STATEC for reference years 2000-2022 . Years 2000-2007 for MF.7.1, MF 7.4.8 and MF 7.5 are estimated by Eurostat. Aggregates related to tables A to G are automatically calculated in table H. |
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12.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Please use Annex 3 for providing an assessment of the overall quality of the reported data. Annexes: EW-MFA_Annex_3 |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable because data are not based on a sample survey. |
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13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
Not applicable because data are not based on a sample survey. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.1. Coverage error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.2. Measurement error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.3. Non response error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.4. Processing error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
12 months after the end of the reference period |
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14.1.1. Time lag - first result | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.1.2. Time lag - final result | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
Data on t-1 are provided |
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14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication | |||
Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | ||||||||
Data on EW-MFA are compiled according to harmonised guidelines provided by Eurostat and hence comparable across European countries reporting EW-MFA data to Eurostat. |
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15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | ||||||||
Not applicable because physical imports and exports as recorded in EW-MFA are not specified by origin and/or destination. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | ||||||||
Please see the table in 15.2.1.1. |
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15.2.1. Length of comparable time series | ||||||||
Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT. |
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15.2.1.1. Comparability - over time detailed | ||||||||
Please use below table for explaining b)-flags (breaks in time series):
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | ||||||||
not evaluated |
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15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | ||||||||
Not applicable; reported EW-MFA data are only annual. |
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15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts | ||||||||
not evaluated |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | ||||||||
not available |
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not available |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Normal revision is a revision carried out during the annual compilation process. Exceptional revision is a revision carried out at anytime. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
STATEC carries out various surveys where monetary values and quantities are collected. During each campaign, STATEC verifies the consistency between these variables and, if needed, requests revisions from respondents. This process implies that data are provisional for several years like MF 3.8. For the 2024 data collection, slight revisions occurred for years 2000-2018 in Tables B and D for products MF 1.5.2 and MF 1.5.4, due to the continuous improvement in the underlying trade statistics data. Data for reference years 2019 - 2022 were also revised for multiple products due to the updates in the underlying trade statistics data. |
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17.2.1. Data revision - average size | |||
Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Data sources used to produce economy-wide material flow accounts are described in the sub-concepts 18.1.1 (and Annex) and 18.1.2. |
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18.1.1. Source data - Table A, B, D, F and G | |||
Please use Annex 1 to report the detailed data sources for questionnaire tables A, B, D, F and G. Annexes: EW-MFA Annex 1 - Data sources |
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18.1.2. Source data - Table I | |||
Table I is now calculated based on the Eurostat's RME tool (version February 2024). Internal data available at STATEC were used in the RME tool. The proposed price adjustments are done for all materials, except biomass. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Data are collected and stored annually in the framework of MFA compilation process |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
MFA are produced based on data coming from surveys. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Basic data are verified before entering the MFA compilation process MFA statistics are validated before the generation of final results |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
See comments below. |
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18.5.1. Imputation - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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18.5.2. Estimation approaches for specific items | |||
Please use Annex 2 to describe estimation approaches for specific items. Annexes: EW-MFA Annex 2 - Estimation methods for Table A |
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18.5.3. Adjustment used of correspondence table for Tables B and D | |||
No adjustment is needed |
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18.5.4. Adjustment used of conversion factors for Tables B and D | |||
No adjustment is needed |
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18.5.5. Fuel trade, residence adjustment | |||
Data on fuel trade are extracted from Energy database. In this database, energy statistics are available following residential principle. |
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18.5.6. Significant problems | |||
No major problem |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Not applicable; i.e. in EW-MFA no time series adjustment necessary. |
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18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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