Building the System of National Accounts

Building the System of National Accounts is a Eurostat publication, also downloadable in PDF format (Essential SNA - Building the basics - 2014 edition, ISBN: 978-92-79-36333-7, ISSN: 2315-0815, DOI (Digital object identifier): 10.2785/51610).

Table of contents

1. Context

SNA in the economy

Towards the 2008 SNA

2. Strategy

National strategies for the development of statistics (NSDS)

The 2008 SNA implementation strategy 

3. Basic concepts

Basic concepts

Accounts and main aggregates

4. Business register and statistical classifications

Business register

Classifications

5. Statistical sources

Censuses

Surveys

6. Administrative sources

What are administrative sources?

Transition to national accounts

8. Informal sector

Place of the informal sector in the economy

Defining the informal sector

Informal economy

How to measure the informal sector

9. Volume measures

Price and volume in national accounts

GDP volume measures

10. Supply and use tables

Why we need supply and use tables

Basis for building supply and use tables

Compilation of supply and use tables

11. Measuring quarterly GDP

What are quarterly national accounts and why do we need them?

Data sources and methods used for QGDP compilation

Production approach to QGDP

Expenditure approach to QGDP

Revisions and dissemination