Hungarian Central Statistical Office

Multi-domain Statistics Department/Environmental and Information Statistics Section

1024 Budapest Keleti Károly utca 5-7.

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:

• Table A 'Domestic extraction (DE)': records material flows from the environment into the economy in a detailed breakdown by type of material
• Table B 'Imports - total imports (intra- and extra-EU) and Table D 'Exports – total exports (intra- and extra-EU)': These physical trade tables record the imports and exports of products in thousand tonnes and grouped by materials.
• Table F 'Domestic processed output (DPO)': records material flows from the economy to the domestic environment (e.g. emissions to air, water and soil)
• Table G 'Balancing items': reports some memorandum items which are necessary to have the full material balance related to a national economy
• Table H 'Indicators': presents the EW-MFA derived indicators which are automatically calculated from Table A to G
• Table I 'Material flow accounts in raw material equivalents (RME)': records material flow accounts in raw material equivalents (MFA-RME). Some items are calculated automatically based on data reported in Table A and Table I

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:

• domestic extraction (Table A)
• physical imports (Table B)
• physical exports (Table D)
• domestic processed output (Table F)
• balancing items (Table G)
• direct material input (indicator)
• domestic material consumption (indicator)
• physical trade balance (indicator)

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.

The data refer to national economies as defined in the system of national accounts.

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.

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.

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.

Reference area is Hungary.

Please see the table in 3.8.1.

Not applicable because EW-MFA are not reported as indices.

The unit of measure is thousand tonnes.

The data refer to the calendar years.

Economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA) are legally covered by Regulation (EU) 691/2011 on European Environmental Economic Accounts.

Not applicable in national level this information is required at European level only.

Act CLV of 2016 on official statistics assures all of the confidentiality issues.

Act CLV of 2016 on official statistics assures all of the confidentiality issues.

Statistical release date for EW-MFA is until 30th April 2024.

https://www.ksh.hu/katalogus/#/stadat/en

8.1.1.5 Material Flows

Users are informed only by our website appearance.

Data is yearly disseminated.

We have no news releases.

We publish EW-MFA data annually and biannually as part of other publishments.

Green economy

https://www.ksh.hu/apps/shop.kiadvany?p_kiadvany_id=1073246&p_temakor_kod=KSH&p_lang=HU

Indicators of sustainable development for Hungary, 2022

https://www.ksh.hu/apps/shop.kiadvany?p_kiadvany_id=1078776&p_temakor_kod=KSH&p_lang=HU

Environmental Report/Land, 2022

https://www.ksh.hu/s/helyzetkep-2022/#/kiadvany/fold

8.1.1.5 Material Flows

https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/fol/en/fol0005.html

Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT.

We have no microdata for researchers about EW-MFA.

We have no other data dissemination means.

Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT.

We have no national methodological documents.

Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT.

Quality related documents are available only through ESS Metadata Handler.

Our quality procedures comply with the European Statistics Code of Practice.

Our quality procedures comply with the European Statistics Code of Practice.

There are no general deficiencies in the time series. Most of the data are available from either statistical data collection or administrative sources. There are certain estimations applied, but they do not affect the general data quality.

Main users of national EW-MFA data are research institutes.

We have not received any feedback from our users yet. We just monitor the visit frequency of our webpage.

See 12.1

We have all the relevant mandatory data.

Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT.

Most of the data are available from either statistical data collection or administrative sources. There are certain estimations applied, but they do not affect the general data quality.

Please use Annex 3 for providing an assessment of the overall quality of the reported data. 

We do not have information about low data quality.

Not applicable because data are not based on a sample survey.

Not applicable because data are not based on a sample survey.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data is available nationally subject year+16 months.

Data is available nationally subject year+16 months. Data production time is about 1 month.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Hungary transmitted the data to Eurostat on 5. March 2024.

Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT.

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.

Not applicable because physical imports and exports as recorded in EW-MFA are not specified by origin and/or destination.

Please see the table in 15.2.1.1.

We have no break in time series.

Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT.

Please use below table for explaining b)-flags (breaks in time series):

We do not have information about cross domain incoherences.

Not applicable; reported EW-MFA data are only annual.

We do not undertake residence adjustments, because there is no available data which is reliable enough.

Each set of outputs are internally consistent.

Most of the data are available from either statistical data collection or administrative sources. There are certain estimations applied, but they do not affect the general data quality.

There is no additional extra cost of filling in the EW-MFA questionnaire. We do not have information about response burden.

There were data revisions in this year's questionnaire only in the field of biomass (Table A)

We revise data only, if an error is detected or certain data is revised.

We revise data only, if an error is detected or certain data is revised.

We have revised the wild fish catch due to official revision for the years 2006, 2020, 2021.

Will be calculated and provided by EUROSTAT.

Most of the data are available from either statistical data collection or administrative sources.

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.

Please use Annex 1 to report the detailed data sources for questionnaire tables A, B, D, F and G.

Hungary has not reported Table I.

There is an annual data collection.

Crop production: http://www.ksh.hu/apps/meta.objektum?p_lang=EN&p_menu_id=110&p_almenu_id=104&p_ot_id=100&p_obj_id=BDAC&p_session_id=36425712

International trade: http://www.ksh.hu/apps/meta.objektum?p_lang=EN&p_menu_id=110&p_ot_id=100&p_obj_id=BFAA

Checking outlier data in time series.

Crop production: http://www.ksh.hu/apps/meta.objektum?p_lang=EN&p_menu_id=110&p_almenu_id=104&p_ot_id=100&p_obj_id=BDAC&p_session_id=36425712

International trade: http://www.ksh.hu/apps/meta.objektum?p_lang=EN&p_menu_id=110&p_ot_id=100&p_obj_id=BFAA

Crop production: http://www.ksh.hu/apps/meta.objektum?p_lang=EN&p_menu_id=110&p_almenu_id=104&p_ot_id=100&p_obj_id=BDAC&p_session_id=36425712

International trade: http://www.ksh.hu/apps/meta.objektum?p_lang=EN&p_menu_id=110&p_ot_id=100&p_obj_id=BFAA

Not applicable.

Crop production: http://www.ksh.hu/apps/meta.objektum?p_lang=EN&p_menu_id=110&p_almenu_id=104&p_ot_id=100&p_obj_id=BDAC&p_session_id=36425712

International trade: http://www.ksh.hu/apps/meta.objektum?p_lang=EN&p_menu_id=110&p_ot_id=100&p_obj_id=BFAA

Hungary employs Eurostat’s correspondence table, provided with the EW-MFA questionnaire, to assign traded goods to material categories.

Hungary does not use conversion factors to convert traded goods into tonnes. MFA natural gas import and export figures do not contain the reimport and reexport values, which can explain the majority of the difference compared to COMEXT database. Other trade figures are also not involved in natural gas import and export values, but those have a minor impact on the difference.

Hungary does not make adjustments to the physical trade characteristics because lack of data.

There are no significant problems in adapting basic statistics to the concepts of the accounts.

Not applicable; i.e. in EW-MFA no time series adjustment necessary.

Not applicable.