Building the System of National Accounts

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Building the System of National Accounts is a Eurostat methodological publication explaining in detail how statistics producers, such as national or international statistical institutes, may build a coherent system of national accounts (SNA), especially in developing countries. The articles are based on the official Eurostat handbook Essential SNA - Building the basics and they focus particularly on the early stages of the implementation.

Introduction

Context

Strategy

Basic concepts

Business register and statistical classifications

Statistical sources

Administrative sources

Non-observed sector

Informal sector

Volume measures

Supply and use tables

Measuring quarterly GDP