As of 1997 the regional accounts have been published every year. Prior to 1997 they were published periodically. The regional accounts for year t-3 are produced in April/May in year t. Several of the statistical sources in the national accounts require a long processing time, resulting in the relatively long period between data collection and release date.
Regional figures.
930 - Division for National Accounts
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Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 of 25 June 1996 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community.
Eurostat.
The purpose of the national accounts statistics by county is, in broad terms, to show the economic activity in the various counties.
Regional accounts have been produced for the years 1965, 1973, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1992-1992, 1995, 1997 and 1998-2001. During the main revision of the national accounts new statistical sources and new classifications were implemented in the national accounts in line with the new international guidelines of the System of National Accounts 1993 and the European System of Accounts 1995.
The regional accounts are also based on the international guidelines of the European System of Accounts 1995. Statistics Norway has recently conducted a revision of national accounts figures back to 1991. In this revision, the new structural statistics and other new statistics were implemented to improve the quality of national accounts time series. The statistical sources have been implemented in the regional accounts for 1998-2001. The regional accounts before 1998 are not consistent with the years after 1998.
Eurostat, research institutes, ministries, politicians, the media etc.
The scope of the regional national accounts is outlined in Chapter 13 of the European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 95). In addition, two methodological handbooks, Eurostat (1995) and Eurostat (1996) have been published. The Norwegian counties correspond to the NUTS 3 (Nomenclatura of Territorial Statistical Units) classification of the European Union.
The statistical unit in the accounts should - as far as possible - be the establishment, i.e. the local kind of activity unit (LKAU). The general principle for location, the resident principle, is that all production and intermediate consumption should be allocated to the region where the producer is resident. If an enterprise has local kind of activity units in several regions, each of them should receive the value added in the region where the LKAU is located. Ancillary corporations are also included. Similarly, Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) is allocated to the region where the investment takes place. Consumption is allocated to the regions where the consumers reside. In ancillary corporations the value of output is set as the cost of production, i.e. intermediate consumption and compensation of employees.
The regional accounts are composed by a system of distribution keys, which allocate the flows of the total economy to the regions. The system of distribution keys contains structural statistics and industry-related statistics which are allocated to the counties. Other sources of distribution keys are sales figures from the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises (BOF), wage totals from End of the Year Certificate Register, the State Central Register of Government Employees (SST), and KOSTRA (Municipality-State-Reporting). In addition other information outside Statistics Norway is used when available. These statistical sources are adjusted to fulfil the international requirements of regional accounts.
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See Section 3.2
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In the detailed industrial figures, figures for groups of less than three units and other cells are set to zero in order to avoid identification of the figures in the calculation of residuals.
Se Allso Concepts and definitions in national accounts
The accounting system of the national accounts contains a listing of the specifications of accounts used. The new accounting system for the revised Norwegian national accounts is based on the international standards for national accounts SNA 1993 and ESA 1995. The accounting system gives the framework and contents for the production of national accounts statistics. In addition to accounting structure, the accounting system contains a number of groupings or classifications used in the national accounts. The regional accounts are based on the same accounting system because they are an integrated part of the national accounts.
http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/09/01/nos_nasjonal_en/
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The distribution keys in the regional accounts are uncertain. In addition there is uncertainty in the statistical sources in the national accounts. The compilation of annual national accounts is based on many statistical sources. The sources are either survey data from establishments, enterprises and households, or data from registers. National accounts statistics reflect the inaccuracy that underlies the statistical sources and methods of compilation. Weaknesses and inaccuracy in the statistical sources are usually described in the documentation of the relevant sources.
Since the national accounts are an integrated system with balancing methods and consistency checks, there is reason to believe that the national accounts may reduce some of the inaccuracies in the statistical sources. On the other hand, national accounts require compilation of statistics in areas where the sources are unsatisfactory, and the inaccuracy in such areas may therefore be significant. Some of the figures in the national accounts are estimated as residuals.
Regional accounts are comparable for the period 1990-1997, but not between 1997 and 1998. The reason is that new structural statistics have been implemented in the regional accounts for 1998-2001. The regional accounts published before 1990 are based on the previous international standards for national accounts (SNA 1968). The methods are mainly the same, even though the statistical sources have been improved in recent years. The regional accounts before 1990 have not been revised following the revisions of the national accounts. The regional accounts for 1965 are based on other principles than the later versions. In the earlier versions of regional accounts from the 1970s and 1980s, a varying number of activities were not distributed by county.
The regional accounts are a regional specification of the corresponding national accounts and are consistent with national accounts statistics. Since the earlier versions (before 1998) of the regional accounts have not been re-estimated in the revisions of the national accounts, they are not consistent with the national accounts for these years. In particular, there are many differences in the figures for 1986 and earlier versions.
http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/09/01/fnr_en/
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