National Accounts

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1. Introduction   
2. International Guidelines
   • System of National Accounts 1993
3. Framework - Structure - Definitions
   • Introduction
   • Accounting Rule 1: Residency
   • Accounting Rule 2: Double / Quadruple Entry
   • Accounting Rule 3: Time of Recording
   • Accounting Rule 4: Valuation Principle
   • GDP - Final Output
   • Economic Agents and Groupings
   • Economic Agents and Groupings 1: Institutional sectors
   • Economic Agents and Groupings 2: Industries
   • Components and Sequence of Accounts 1: Current Accounts
   • Components and Sequence of Accounts 2: Accumulation Accounts
   • Components and Sequence of Accounts 3: Balance Sheets
   • Supply-Use and Input-Output
   • Supply-Use and Input-Output 1: Goods and Services Account
   • Supply-Use and Input-Output 2: Supply and Use Tables
   • Supply-Use and Input-Output 3: Input - Output tables
   • Reconciliation
4. Production Boundaries and Valuation of Output
   • The Production boundary
   • Market versus Non-Market Production
   • Valuation of Output in Specific Industries
5. Price and Volume Measures in the National Accounts
   • Introduction
   • Constant price estimates
   • Basic methods to obtain constant price estimates 
   • Price and volume measures for GDP
   • GDP at constant prices from the production approach
   • GDP at constant prices from the expenditure approach
   • Sources
   • Relationship between the GDP-deflator, the CPI and the PPI
   • Base year and chainlinking
   • Re-referencing national accounts constant price data in the LDB
6. Terms of Trade Effects and Real Income Measures
   • Introduction
   • Terms of trade adjustment - Gains and losses from changes in the terms of trade
   • Real income measures
7. Changes from 68SNA to 93SNA 
   • Changes from 68SNA to 93SNA
8. Relationships to Other Statistics
   • Introduction
   • Balance of Payments
   • Government Finance Statistics
   • Other Source Statistics
9. Annexes
   • Annex 1: Definitions of National Accounts Aggregates
   • Annex 2: National Accounts Aggregates in LDB
   • Annex 3: Glossary