Reference metadata describe statistical concepts and methodologies used for the collection and generation of data. They provide information on data quality and, since they are strongly content-oriented, assist users in interpreting the data. Reference metadata, unlike structural metadata, can be decoupled from the data.
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia - SURS
1.2. Contact organisation unit
National Accounts Section, Macroeconomic Statistics Division
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
SURS, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia Litostrojska cesta 54 SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia
1.6. Contact email address
Confidential because of GDPR
1.7. Contact phone number
Confidential because of GDPR
1.8. Contact fax number
Confidential because of GDPR
2.1. Metadata last certified
9 September 2025
2.2. Metadata last posted
9 September 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
9 September 2025
3.1. Data description
Regional accounts are a regional specification of the national accounts and therefore based on the same concepts and definitions as national accounts (see domain nama10). The specific regional issues are presented in Chapter 13 of ESA 2010. More practical rules and recommendations are explained in the Manual on Regional Accounts Methods. Slovenian regional accounts compilation is explained in detail in the Regional Accounts Inventory.
National accounts aggregates gross domestic product (GDP), gross value added (GVA), gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) as well as household sector accounts (the Allocation of primary income account and Secondary distribution of income account), employment in persons, compensation of employees and employment in hours worked, are broken down by statistical regions (NUTS level 3) and cohesion regions (NUTS level 2) of the Republic of Slovenia.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is calculated at market prices. For regional data the different measures include absolute figures, per capita indicators, structural shares and index levels.
3.2. Classification system
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia uses some national classifications for the collection, calculation, presentation and dissemination of data which are harmonised with the international classifications:
Standard Classification of Activities (SKD) is a national version of NACE Rev. 2. It presents the mandatory national standard for statistics and other administrative data collections and dissemination. The current version is SKD 2008 and is harmonised with NACE Rev. 2 down to the fourth digit. It is used for breakdowns of the economic activities.
Standard Classification of Institutional Sectors (SKIS) has been a national standard since 1998. The current version of SKIS is based on ESA 2010 classification of institutional sectors.
Standard Classification of Territorial Units (SKTE) is a compulsory national standard used for collecting, processing, analysing, transmitting and disseminating data on the territorial breakdown of the Republic of Slovenia. Up to the third level the SKTE is based on the NUTS classification. Levels in SKTE below the third level represent administrative units, municipalities, etc., but they are not part of the NUTS classification and therefore not used for compiling regional data of national accounts.
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is the basis for the regional breakdown of Slovenia and is therefore the fundamental classificationof regional accounts. At NUTS 1 level Slovenia appears as a single region. At the NUTS 2 level Slovenia is divided into two cohesion regions, which are at the NUTS 3 level further broken down into 12 statistical regions.
Regional accounts datasets on GDP, employment and GFCF cover the total economy. Datasets on distribution of income accounts cover only the household sector, while GFCF by region is separately available for the general government sector.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
National accounts concepts are also used for regional accounts. All statistical concepts and definitions to be used in national accounts are described in Annex A of the ESA 2010 Regulation.
Regional accounts provide regional breakdowns for major aggregates such as gross value added by industry, gross fixed capital formation and household income. Regional breakdowns are based on the NUTS classification.
3.5. Statistical unit
Following the ESA 2010 guidelines, regional accounts deal with the economy as a whole. They combine data from different statistical surveys and thus have no common sampling reference frame. In regional accounts the observation units are enterprises, local units and households.
3.6. Statistical population
All observation units on the geographical and economic territory of Slovenia are the target statistical population as a source of information for building the regional accounts. Regional accounts are fully covered.
To obtain per capita figures, the population data are used. For this purpose, the total number of residents is estimated as a 4 quarterly average and is in line with the annual national population. The number of residents of a certain region is calculated as a percentage of all residents.
3.7. Reference area
The reference area to which the regional accounts data refer is Slovenia. In geographical terms, Slovenia (NUTS 1 level) is divided into two cohesion regions (NUTS 2 level) and twelve statistical regions (NUTS 3 level).
3.8. Coverage - Time
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia produces regional accounts data in the scope of requirements and the lengths of the time series as defined in the transmission program of the ESA 2010 Regulation and in ESA 2010 Mid-term review. Regional accounts data are available from the reference year 2000 on.
3.9. Base period
The concept of 'base period' is not applied in regional accounts.
Transactions on the economic territory of Slovenia are performed in the national currency euro (EUR). Until 2007 the national currency was Slovenian tolar (SIT) and the fixed exchange rate of 1 EUR=239.64 SIT to convert historical data to euro is used.
Regional accounts variables are expressed in values (million EUR), structural shares, growth rates, index level, and various other measures (e.g. percentages, per capita data). Employment is expressed in the number of persons (thousand) and in hours of work (million).
Regional accounts data refer to calendar years. The gross fixed capital formation data covers the period from 2000 to the current calendar year minus 2. The regional gross value added, employment in persons and hours worked, compensation of employees and household sector accounts (limited to income distribution and redistribution) cover the period from 2000 to the current calendar year minus 1.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
Regional accounts are compiled in accordance with the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) which was published in the Official Journal as Annex A of Regulation (EU) No 549/2013. The ESA 2010 transmission programme is covered in Annex B and in ESA 2010 Mid-term Review.
Other legal acts which are relevant for the compilation of regional accounts:
Commission Regulation No 2381/2015 of 17 December 2015 on implementing Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 regarding the transmission of the time series for the new regional breakdown
In addition to the legal acts mentioned above, the main legal acts that determine the status of performing activities of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia are the National Statistics Act (OJ RS, No 45/95 and 9/01), as well the the medium-term and annual term Programmes of Statistical Surveys. The Annual Programme of Statistical Surveys is available in the Slovenian language only.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia is obliged to deliver regional accounts data in accordance with the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) and the ESA 2010 transmission programme. The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia usually publishes data on its website on the same day it is transmitted to Eurostat or any other users of regional accounts data (see also section 8.2. "Release calendar access"), sometimes even before the delivery date from the ESA 2010 transmission programme.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia provides the statistical confidentiality with the help of legal, organisational and technological procedures. The National Statistical Act (NSA) in Article 2 clearly states that national statistics shall be implemented on the principle of statistical confidentiality. Article 34, paragraph 6 explicitly stipulates that the collected data shall be disseminated by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia to the users in such a way that the reporting unit involved cannot be identified. Article 46 provides that data collected on the basis of the programme of statistical surveys may be used solely for statistical purposes, unless otherwise provided by law. Article 50 defines that statistics may be published in aggregate form only.
In a statistical sense, ‘confidential data’ means data which allow statistical units to be identified, either directly or indirectly, thereby disclosing individual information. To determine whether a statistical unit is identifiable, account shall be taken of all relevant means that might reasonably be used by a third party to identify the statistical unit. Although regional accounts data are usually highly aggregated, there may be possible cases for detailed breakdowns of aggregates, but in these cases measures should be taken not to disclose data of an individual statistical unit. Guidance on how to prevent disclosure can be found in the Handbook on Statistical Disclosure Control.
In general, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia provides full confidence to data providers (i.e. persons, households, enterprises and other organisations), i.e. protects their identity and confidentiality of provided information. Also the disseminated data do not enable direct or indirect identification of an individual statistical unit due to different methods of statistical disclosure control for microdata and tabular data being used (Statistical disclosure control for microdata) (Statistical disclosure control for tabular data).
All Slovenian regional accounts data transmitted to Eurostat are free for publication (F flag).
8.1. Release calendar
The advance release calendar is publicly available and published at the end of the year for the following year.
The release calendar includes regional accounts releases, i.e. First Release and Electronic Releases (updates of the SI-STAT Database). Users can access the regional accounts data with the search engine which allows browsing by theme (i.e. GDP and National Accounts), sub-theme (Regional Accounts), producers (the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia) and period.
The release calendar contains the following information: scheduled date of publishing and when necessary a rescheduled date and reason for the date change.
8.2. Release calendar access
The release calendar is accessible from the home page of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia website.
8.3. Release policy - user access
The release policy of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia determines that all users have equal access to statistical releases at the same time and in the same manner. Users are informed when data will be available by the release calendar. Users can subscribe to the release calendar via email or RSS to receive notifications about releases. In the case of a change to the original schedule users are informed in advance.
The dissemination policy of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia is presented in greater detail in the Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Chapter 7 “Dissemination of data”, and in the Style Guide (only in the Slovenian language).
In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice (Principle 6 on impartiality and objectivity, Principle 13 on timeliness and punctuality and Principle 15 on accessibility and clarity), users of regional accounts data of Slovenia could obtain data on the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia website, via mail or email, phone and by visiting the Information Centre during office hours.
Annual.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
The most important results of regional accounts are issued in news releases. The exact dates are pre-announced in release calendars (see section 8.1. "Release calendar").
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia publishes regional accounts data in accordance with the release calendar as First Release at 10:30 (local time) on its website in Slovenian and English. The first release contains the most relevant and interesting general data and information presented in a clear and understandable (comprehensible) way.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
Regional accounts data are published in annual statistical publications of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, such as National statistics in a particular year and site Slovene statistical regions and municipalities in figures. All publications are published in Slovenian and English versions.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
In order to enable easy access to national accounts data, all validated regional accounts data are available to users by publishing them in an online database.
Regional accounts data are available in the SI-STAT database under the section GDP and National accounts where more detailed statistics are represented in tables. Tables in PC-Axis format allow direct access via the web interface, a selection of categories to view and save in different formats. Users can download tables, charts, maps, metadata and methodological explanations. All regional accounts data that are published or stored in the database are available to users free of charge.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
Not applicable.
10.5. Dissemination format - other
In addition to news releases and other publications (see sections 10.1. "Dissemination format - News release" and 10.2. "Dissemination format - Publications"), information on regional accounts may be posted using social media.
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia Facebook messages can be accessed here: @StatSlovenija
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia Instagram messages can be accessed here: @StatSlovenija
10.6. Documentation on methodology
The general methodological framework for the compilation of regional accounts in the EU Member States is the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010). Chapter 13 of the ESA 2010 describes regional accounts in general and clarifies the major conceptual principles and compilation issues typical for regional accounts. In addition, the Manual on Regional Accounts Methods gives a detailed recommendations for the practical implementation of that basic rules in the EU Member States regional accounts.
The methodology of regional accounts data in Slovenia is clearly presented in the methodological explanations and is available to all potential users of regional accounts data of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia website (link to the methodology-Theme: Gross Domestic Product and National Accounts, Sub-theme: Regional accounts, Material: methodological explanation - content) (in Slovenian and English).
The methodological explanations are prepared and published separately by the content of the area:
In addition, an inventory of regional accounts data is available to users. It contains detailed descriptions of methods and sources used for the compilation of regional accounts statistics.
The importance of regional accounts data requires that documentation should be available on the procedures applied for quality management and quality assessment. The quality of the regional accounts data submitted to Eurostat by Slovenia are presented in the quality report which includes the overall assessment for the different quality criteria: relevance, accuracy, timeliness and punctuality, accessibility and clarity, and coherence.
11.1. Quality assurance
The quality of regional accounts data is assured by strict application of ESA 2010 concepts and by applying the guidelines of the ESS handbook for quality reports.
During the overall compilation process regional accounts data undergo several kinds of quality checks, e.g. ex-ante (source statistics), ongoing (results), ex-post (methods used) and external checks (Eurostat).
11.2. Quality management - assessment
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia regularly fulfils questionnaires from Eurostat (metadata reports, quality reports) relating to regional accounts. These questionnaires are not published on the national website.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
Regional accounts data provide key information for economic policy monitoring and decision-making, for forecasting, for administrative purposes (allocation of expenditure of cohesion policy funds and ex-post assessment of the results of regional and cohesion policy), for informing the general public about economic developments by regions, and as input for economic research.
At the national level the most important data users of regional accounts data are: the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development of Slovenia, the Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy, scientific and academic communities as well as other economic and social bodies in the public and private sectors.
Directorate-General for Regional and Urban policy (DG REGIO) receives regional data of Slovenia from Eurostat, which is responsible for the validation and sharing of the data.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
In general, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia cooperates with stakeholders (users of statistical data and data providers) through the Statistical Council of the Republic of Slovenia and statistical advisory committees to provide quality, timely and relevant statistics. Users of national accounts data can express their views and opinions on the National Accounts, and Financial and Monetary Statistics Advisory Committee meetings which are organised on a regular basis.
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia monitors and analyses the use of statistical data by using Google analytics (counts of page-views of First Releases and the individual tables in the SI-STAT Database).
User satisfaction surveys are regularly conducted (Report for 2024). The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia organises the annual international statistical conference “Statistical Day” focused on the user perspective of different statistical challenges. Data about users’ requests are gathered also via the Information Centre and with bilateral contacts.
12.3. Completeness
Regional data are complete as of reference year 2000 in accordance with the ESA2010 transmission programme and ESA 2010 Mid-term Review.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
Regional accounts data are constantly exposed to accuracy checks by verifying any change implemented during the same production round with respect to the previous version of the same year and with respect to the previous release. The changes are calculated as a growth rate and/or as a percentage of GDP. The differences that arise between successive publication data are due to harmonisation with the revised national accounts data (gross domestic product or non-financial sector accounts) and due to changes in regional accounts data sources and methods. Revised regional accounts data are published within regular publications in line with the Release Calendar.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Regional accounts data become available to users as timely as possible, taking into account an adequate balance between accuracy and timeliness. The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia published the regional gross fixed capital formation data 21 months and 10 days after the end of the reference year, the regional household sector accounts 9 months and 22 days and the regional gross domestic product 11 months and 14 days after the end of the reference year. Slovenia delivers the regional accounts data to Eurostat on the same day as the data are published in the country.
14.2. Punctuality
Regional accounts data are published according to the schedule of publication. The dates on which regional accounts data are published and become available to users are pre-announced. Regional accounts data transmissions in the framework of the ESA 2010 transmission programme and ESA 2010 Mid-term Review are punctually delivered to Eurostat before the dates defined in the transmission programme.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
Regional accounts data are calculated and presented according to the Standard Classification of Territorial Units in the European Union at NUTS 1 (Slovenia), NUTS 2 (two cohesion regions) and NUTS 3 (twelve statistical regions) disaggregated levels.
The geographical comparability between EU Member States and regions is ensured by the application of common ESA 2010 definitions and methodological guidelines (Manual on Regional Accounts Methods).
15.2. Comparability - over time
Regional accounts data are fully comparable over the period from 2000 to the last reference year. Also, in the case of fundamental changes of methods or classifications, the complete time series are revised.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
Regional accounts data are fully consistent with annual GDP and sector accounts. In practice temporary discrepancies occur due to the different time of publication. Annual GDP data are published at the end of August and the annual sector accounts are published at the end of September for the data in the previous year (reference year and the years open for the revisions). The regional GFCF and household sector accounts are published in October after the annual national accounts data (with the delay of 40 days and 22 days, respectively). Regional GDP data are published in December, i.e. 105 days after the national GDP publication.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Slovenian regional accounts data are also coherent in terms of additivity. There is coherence between totals and the sum of components (e.g. sum of activity breakdowns or regions).
Not available.
17.1. Data revision - policy
Regional accounts data are subject to continuous revisions as they should be harmonised with the national accounts data. They are called routine revisions and entail regular revisions of country data. More rarely, exceptional revisions (called benchmark revisions) result from major changes in data sources, classifications or methodology and appear both in the regional accounts data and in the national accounts data. For example, when changing from ESA95 to ESA 2010, a benchmark revision occurred at both accounts.
The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia publishes on its website the information on revision policy included in comprehensive set of methodological documentation (see section 10.6. “Documentation on methodology”).
17.2. Data revision - practice
The information on the main reasons for revisions and their nature (new source data available, new methods, etc.) as well as possibly quantitative and qualitative assessment on the average size of revisions and their direction based on historical data is prepared on a regular basis.
Revised regional accounts data are published within regular publication of regional accounts. The information concerning the revision policy for Slovenian regional accounts is published within the First Release. Detailed information and history of revisions can be found within the methodological explanation (in Slovenian and English) and is accessible on the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia website (see section 10.6. “Documentation on methodology”). Regarding revision policy implementation, the recommended harmonized revision policy is not yet fully applied, which allows for visible and temporary inconsistencies due to the vintage effect.
18.1. Source data
Regional accounts compilation builds upon various statistics that are primarily collected for other statistical and administrative purposes (primary statistics or administrative data). The most important data sources used are administrative sources (i.e. annual accounting statements, financial statements for insurance companies, reinsurance companies and pension funds, budgetary statistics and balance sheets, budgets of municipalities, health and pension fund data, customs declarations, monthly reports on value added, tax and excise duties, and annual income tax declaration, etc.), statistical surveys (Annual Industry Report, Annual Statistical Survey on Construction, Annual Survey on Trade, Annual GFCF Survey, Survey on Building Permits, Labour Cost Survey, tourism statistics, agricultural and forest statistics, etc.), the Statistical Register of Employment and the population census.
Overall, it is difficult to be exhaustive in the listing of all data sources. The main data sources and some additional information on the data sources and collection methods of regional accounts calculation are listed in methodological explanations that are regularly updated and published along with the results of compilation (see section 10.6. “Documentation on methodology”).
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Data are collected annually despite the fact that the frequency of data collection of primary statistics varies according to the nature of the data source. Data of primary statistics are available either monthly (e.g. Survey on Building Permits, tourism statistics), quarterly (e.g. Quarterly Performance of Enterprises, statistics on telecommunications), annually (e.g. Annual Industry Report, Economic Accounts for Agriculture, Economic Accounts for Forest, Annual Statistical Survey on Construction, Annual Survey on Trade, Annual GFCF Survey) or every four years (e.g. Labour Cost Survey), or five years (e.g. Structure of Intermediate Consumption and Output). The register-based censuses of population, households and housing are available every 3 to 4 years.
The availability of the data sources and clear descriptions of them (variables collected, periodicity, organization collecting the data, etc.), can be found in the methodological explanation.
18.3. Data collection
The National Accounts Section in Slovenia in general does not collect data by itself but receives them from other statistical sections in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia or from other institutions (e.g. AJPES, Tax and Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance, Bank of Slovenia, etc.). The accessibility of the external data is defined in agreements with institutions which collect statistics in their own fields of work and with holders of administrative data collections.
18.4. Data validation
Data validation refers to any activity aimed at verifying that the value of a data item comes from a given set of acceptable values. It is a key task performed in all statistical domains and particularly important for national accounts, which is a key dataset for economic analysis and policy decisions.
Regional accounts data are calculated by using data from different sources. All data sources are regularly cross-checked, verified and validated with the aim to achieve relevance and accuracy of the estimations. For the validation of national accounts data, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia applies validation rules agreed with Eurostat and provides metadata to support the validation process with respect to revisions and outliers.
18.5. Data compilation
Data sources, methods and compilation techniques are country specific, but should be employed in such a way that the definitions and concepts in ESA 2010 are met. Many guidance documents on general and specific national accounts compilation issues are available. For more details see section 10.6. “Documentation on methodology”.
In compiling regional accounts the same statistical concept and definitions are used as for compiling national accounts. Regional and national accounts also have largely common data sources and completely consistent end results (regional results are always reconciled with national accounts aggregates). Some methods of compiling regional accounts allow using of national accounts data which are usually based on various data sources at a much more detailed level than the level of the data sources used in compiling regional accounts. Regional accounts data on GVA and GFCF are compiled by using top-down and bottom-up approaches. In Slovenian regional accounts the majority of the compensation of employees is regionalized with bottom-up methods. Compensation of employees by region is calculated from the aspect of the payer – this means that compensation of employees is allocated to the region where the payer has its headquarters. Regional household accounts are limited to the distribution accounts, without the generation of income account. Distributing the data on different incomes or expenditure of the household members is based on the exhaustive data sources which include the information on individual’s address, municipality or administrative unit.
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable.
No comment.
Regional accounts are a regional specification of the national accounts and therefore based on the same concepts and definitions as national accounts (see domain nama10). The specific regional issues are presented in Chapter 13 of ESA 2010. More practical rules and recommendations are explained in the Manual on Regional Accounts Methods. Slovenian regional accounts compilation is explained in detail in the Regional Accounts Inventory.
National accounts aggregates gross domestic product (GDP), gross value added (GVA), gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) as well as household sector accounts (the Allocation of primary income account and Secondary distribution of income account), employment in persons, compensation of employees and employment in hours worked, are broken down by statistical regions (NUTS level 3) and cohesion regions (NUTS level 2) of the Republic of Slovenia.
Gross domestic product (GDP) is calculated at market prices. For regional data the different measures include absolute figures, per capita indicators, structural shares and index levels.
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National accounts concepts are also used for regional accounts. All statistical concepts and definitions to be used in national accounts are described in Annex A of the ESA 2010 Regulation.
Regional accounts provide regional breakdowns for major aggregates such as gross value added by industry, gross fixed capital formation and household income. Regional breakdowns are based on the NUTS classification.
Following the ESA 2010 guidelines, regional accounts deal with the economy as a whole. They combine data from different statistical surveys and thus have no common sampling reference frame. In regional accounts the observation units are enterprises, local units and households.
All observation units on the geographical and economic territory of Slovenia are the target statistical population as a source of information for building the regional accounts. Regional accounts are fully covered.
To obtain per capita figures, the population data are used. For this purpose, the total number of residents is estimated as a 4 quarterly average and is in line with the annual national population. The number of residents of a certain region is calculated as a percentage of all residents.
The reference area to which the regional accounts data refer is Slovenia. In geographical terms, Slovenia (NUTS 1 level) is divided into two cohesion regions (NUTS 2 level) and twelve statistical regions (NUTS 3 level).
Regional accounts data refer to calendar years. The gross fixed capital formation data covers the period from 2000 to the current calendar year minus 2. The regional gross value added, employment in persons and hours worked, compensation of employees and household sector accounts (limited to income distribution and redistribution) cover the period from 2000 to the current calendar year minus 1.
Regional accounts data are constantly exposed to accuracy checks by verifying any change implemented during the same production round with respect to the previous version of the same year and with respect to the previous release. The changes are calculated as a growth rate and/or as a percentage of GDP. The differences that arise between successive publication data are due to harmonisation with the revised national accounts data (gross domestic product or non-financial sector accounts) and due to changes in regional accounts data sources and methods. Revised regional accounts data are published within regular publications in line with the Release Calendar.
Transactions on the economic territory of Slovenia are performed in the national currency euro (EUR). Until 2007 the national currency was Slovenian tolar (SIT) and the fixed exchange rate of 1 EUR=239.64 SIT to convert historical data to euro is used.
Regional accounts variables are expressed in values (million EUR), structural shares, growth rates, index level, and various other measures (e.g. percentages, per capita data). Employment is expressed in the number of persons (thousand) and in hours of work (million).
Data sources, methods and compilation techniques are country specific, but should be employed in such a way that the definitions and concepts in ESA 2010 are met. Many guidance documents on general and specific national accounts compilation issues are available. For more details see section 10.6. “Documentation on methodology”.
In compiling regional accounts the same statistical concept and definitions are used as for compiling national accounts. Regional and national accounts also have largely common data sources and completely consistent end results (regional results are always reconciled with national accounts aggregates). Some methods of compiling regional accounts allow using of national accounts data which are usually based on various data sources at a much more detailed level than the level of the data sources used in compiling regional accounts. Regional accounts data on GVA and GFCF are compiled by using top-down and bottom-up approaches. In Slovenian regional accounts the majority of the compensation of employees is regionalized with bottom-up methods. Compensation of employees by region is calculated from the aspect of the payer – this means that compensation of employees is allocated to the region where the payer has its headquarters. Regional household accounts are limited to the distribution accounts, without the generation of income account. Distributing the data on different incomes or expenditure of the household members is based on the exhaustive data sources which include the information on individual’s address, municipality or administrative unit.
Regional accounts compilation builds upon various statistics that are primarily collected for other statistical and administrative purposes (primary statistics or administrative data). The most important data sources used are administrative sources (i.e. annual accounting statements, financial statements for insurance companies, reinsurance companies and pension funds, budgetary statistics and balance sheets, budgets of municipalities, health and pension fund data, customs declarations, monthly reports on value added, tax and excise duties, and annual income tax declaration, etc.), statistical surveys (Annual Industry Report, Annual Statistical Survey on Construction, Annual Survey on Trade, Annual GFCF Survey, Survey on Building Permits, Labour Cost Survey, tourism statistics, agricultural and forest statistics, etc.), the Statistical Register of Employment and the population census.
Overall, it is difficult to be exhaustive in the listing of all data sources. The main data sources and some additional information on the data sources and collection methods of regional accounts calculation are listed in methodological explanations that are regularly updated and published along with the results of compilation (see section 10.6. “Documentation on methodology”).
Annual.
Regional accounts data become available to users as timely as possible, taking into account an adequate balance between accuracy and timeliness. The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia published the regional gross fixed capital formation data 21 months and 10 days after the end of the reference year, the regional household sector accounts 9 months and 22 days and the regional gross domestic product 11 months and 14 days after the end of the reference year. Slovenia delivers the regional accounts data to Eurostat on the same day as the data are published in the country.
Regional accounts data are calculated and presented according to the Standard Classification of Territorial Units in the European Union at NUTS 1 (Slovenia), NUTS 2 (two cohesion regions) and NUTS 3 (twelve statistical regions) disaggregated levels.
The geographical comparability between EU Member States and regions is ensured by the application of common ESA 2010 definitions and methodological guidelines (Manual on Regional Accounts Methods).
Regional accounts data are fully comparable over the period from 2000 to the last reference year. Also, in the case of fundamental changes of methods or classifications, the complete time series are revised.
