Frequently asked questions

In the Netherlands and France, the compilation of SUTs is integrated into the quarterly compilation of national accounts. In Czechia, SUT structures are used in quarterly estimates, especially for deflation, e.g., shares of use from import or domestic production, shares of output for export, and domestic use in commodity breakdown. However, the quarterly supply and use tables are not usually disseminated.

From the supply table, you can work out the volume of goods and services an industry supplies to the national economy. The use table enables you to work out the industries in which these products and services are used. The input-output table, which provides an overall summary industry by industry, shows relationships between industries.

For detailed information, see Chapter 1 of the Eurostat manual of supply, use and input-output tables. An example is Table 1.2, a simplified use table (page 20).

Under the ESA2010 transmission programme, IO tables are to be provided only for reference years ending in 0 or 5, and in a product-by-product format. Industry-by-industry tables are a good approximation of the product-by-product tables recommended in ESA2010.

For various reasons, countries may provide data for dissemination that are flagged as confidential. However, totals given in tables include confidential data.

To see which products or industries are confidential, we would recommend downloading data along with flags.

Input coefficients, which are calculated from input-output tables, show how much input is needed to produce 1 unit. They can be calculated by dividing each entry of the input-output table by the corresponding column total.

For further information, see the Eurostat manual of supply, use and input-output tables.