Working Party on National Accounts OECD Secretariat Work

October 2005 -February 2006 n Preparation of the last substantive AEG meeting – Finalisation

From conceptual issues to practical issues n After-February 2006 priority objective of the OECD:

FUTURE POSSIBLE COMPILATION GUIDES n n Estimation of GFCF and CFC in R&D (C.

Data collection and redessimination n n Thank you for the impressive progress in coverage

Governance of WPNA n n n OECD Working Parties are chaired by member countries

Next meeting: October 9 -12/13, 2006 n Main point of agenda PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF

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Working Party on National Accounts OECD Secretariat Work Program 2005 -2006 Organisation of 2006 WPNA François Lequiller OECD 1

October 2005 -February 2006 n Preparation of the last substantive AEG meeting – Finalisation of issue papers for the AEG – Last meeting of the TFHPSA (beginning March 2006) – Draft new SNA chapter on general government accounts 2

From conceptual issues to practical issues n After-February 2006 priority objective of the OECD: – Participate in the finalisation of the new SNA – start to explore comparability in …. practice n n n Prepare practical recommendations ensuring a comparable implementation of the new SNA Output: compilation guidelines Example: software task force for SNA 93 (but came much too late) 3

FUTURE POSSIBLE COMPILATION GUIDES n n Estimation of GFCF and CFC in R&D (C. Aspden, in cunjunction with NESTI) Update of OECD Capital Stock Manual, including measurement of CFC (P. Schreyer, Canberra III? ) Actuarial estimates of general government pension schemes for their own employees (F. Lequiller) Estimates of volume non market for health and education: international conference in 2006 Q 2 (F. Lequiller) n Delineation between general government and public units n Manual for students 4

Data collection and redessimination n n Thank you for the impressive progress in coverage and timeliness of ANA and QNA Objective 2006: Volume V of international accounts database on capital stocks n Also: non financial assets by institutional sectors n Continued interest in hours worked, business sector n Extension of data on government expenditure to COFOG 2 n Implementation of NAWWE n IMPORTANT : Give access to OECD. STAT to all WPNA members 5

Governance of WPNA n n n OECD Working Parties are chaired by member countries Proposal: nominate a bureau of three representatives for the WPNA Main objective: decide on the organisation of next WPNA. 6

Next meeting: October 9 -12/13, 2006 n Main point of agenda PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW SNA? n IMPORTANT: Open session : ? n What are the WPNA suggestions? – Supply and use tables? – Organisation of work of national accounts departments? – ? ? ? ? ? 7