Statistics Finland will collect the material related to the revision of national accounts, ESA 2010 to this page. As the revision progresses, we will add to this page statistics-specific transition timetables, the new codes of the publication tables and the training material related to the revision.
1. General information about the revision
2. New handbooks for national accounts
The system of national accounts currently in use in the Member States of the European Union ESA 95, which is based on the worldwide SNA 93 recommendation, was mainly adopted in 1999. Since then, globalisation and new economic phenomena have caused needs for reviewing national accounts. The review of the worldwide SNA system started in 2002 and at the same time, the revision work for the ESA system began within the European Union. The new SNA 2008 was approved in 2009, after which many countries have initiated the transition process towards the new system.
The European Union will move to the new system (ESA 2010) at the end of September 2014, when the data transmission programme included in the ESA 2010 regulation enters into force. The national accounts data will then be compiled based on the new methodological manual for ESA 2010. According to plans, the data of the national accounts released in Finland in July 2014 will already be in line with the new system. Statistics Finland will provide information about the transition timetable of different sections of national accounts at the beginning of 2014 at the latest.
The new ESA 2010 will extend the concept of assets to cover research and development expenditure and weapon systems, give clearer instructions on how to handle global production methods and extend and speed up the reporting demands of data to some extent. In addition, the line between general government and the private sector will change and the Member States will be obliged to produce data on liabilities related to pension systems.
In connection with the revision, several changes will be made to the main classifications used in national accounts. This is particularly true for the classifications of sectors, assets and transactions, where content and structural changes will be made. Smaller changes may also occur in other classifications concerning codes, for example.
In the national accounts data to be published in July 2014, Statistics Finland will revise the time series, which will bring other changes to the time series than only the ones directly related to the ESA 2010 revision. The changes are based on changed calculation methods, new source data and needs to correct errors.
National accounts in the European Union are based on the ESA 2010 manual, which is part of the ESA 2010 Regulation approved by the European Parliament and the Council.
ESA 2010 regulation and methodological manual
ESA 2010 is based on the global recommendation of national accounts, SNA 2008 ratified by the UN.
SNA 2008 methodological manual
In connection with the ESA 2010 revision, the Classification of Sectors was also reviewed and the related handbook was updated.
Classification of Sectors 2012
Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, has opened a website related to the revision, where plenty of material on the revision will become available.
Eurostat's ESA 2010 pages
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Last updated 21.8.2013
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