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Today, Eurostat is publishing for the first time detailed supply, use, and input-output tables for 88 products and industries. These tables will benefit users by giving them greater insights into the structure of EU countries’ economies. They enable a more granular analysis of critical products and industries, such as mining and quarrying activities, construction, and various service activities.

Researchers, policy makers and economic modelers can for example get more accurate assessments of production structures, consumption patterns, trade flows, as well as subsidies and taxes. The tables will also improve the analytical foundation for other Eurostat products such as the FIGARO inter-country supply, use, and input-output tables, derived global value chain indicators, and environmental consumption footprints.

New tables for products and industries. Treemap - Click to enlarge.

The tables are based on voluntary data transmissions from EU countries. Currently, 8 EU countries have sent to Eurostat more disaggregated tables and flagged their data as free for publication. Eurostat will expand the datasets as additional countries transmit their data and flag it for publication.

While data are still often partial and available only for a limited time series, number of countries, products, or industries, they represent an important step forward to meeting a growing user demand for high-resolution macroeconomic statistics. 

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Methodological notes

  • Supply, use and input-output tables are part of national accounts as defined in the European system of accounts (ESA 2010). The data complement the standard tables with a 64 product and industry breakdown as required under the ESA transmission programme.
  • The data follow the 88 divisions of NACE Rev. 2 and the corresponding classification of products by activity (CPA) 2.1. The products and industries presented in the detailed supply, use, and input-output tables include:
    • mining and quarrying activities (NACE B), for which information is now available separately for mining of coal and lignite (NACE B05) 
    • extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas (NACE B06) 
    • mining of metal ores (NACE B07) 
    • other mining and quarrying (NACE B08)
    • mining support activities (NACE B09).
  • A higher disaggregation is also provided for: 
    • selected manufacturing activities (NACE C10–C12 and C13–C15) 
    • construction (NACE F) 
    • waste management and remediation activities (NACE E37–E39)
    • various service activities (NACE Sections I to T).

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