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About the statistics
Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: Central government units, expenditure (discontinued)
Topic: Public sector
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Responsible division
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Division for Public Finance
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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Input measured in NOK:
Own production is defined, in principle, as the sum of the costs of the input factors that the different activities use to carry out activities and produce services. These are wage costs, the purchase of goods and services and use of fixed assets. Figures concerning use of fixed assets, i.e. depreciation and imputed interests, are usually not available. Therefore, this element is excluded from own production. The enterprises’ costs of purchase of goods and services, which are replacements for their own production of similar services, do not enter into their own production concept. Such costs are instead classified as transfers. An example is the Children, Youth and Family Affairs’ (Bufetat) purchase of services form private child welfare institutions. The central government purchases services from (transfers money to) these institutions, which in return undertake the responsibility for the care of the child.
Wage costs are defined as the total remuneration payable to the employees, including social security contributions. Reimbursements are subtracted. In addition, for some enterprises an estimated amount, due to lack of pension contributions to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund, is included in the wage costs, see section 3.6.
Purchase of goods and services covers the value of utilized goods and services used in the production. However, the health enterprises’ purchase of services from other state health enterprises is not included in this category. Similarly, purchases that are not utilizes in the production, are not part of the purchase concept. Such purchases enter into the category of transfers.
Expenses to purchase services between central government enterprises which include debit authorisation, are in StatRes included in own production both for the buyer (purchase of services) and the seller (wage costs). To avoid double entry of the expenses, the internal trades are eliminated as the enterprises are added up to main divisions of services. Hence, the sum of the divisions of services might appear as higher than the main divisions. Internal trades without debit authorisation are not observable in the data sources, and hence not eliminated.
Estimated contributions to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund correspond to the estimated amount added to the enterprises which do not have those pension costs included in their accounts, see section 3.6.
Transfers comprise current payments to the private and public sector, such as pensions, child allowance and sick pay and rehabilitation benefits to households, operating subsidies to the industry and commerce, and transfers to the local authorities, NGOs and foreign countries. Transfers within enterprises in the central government are not included, for instance the Ministry of Health’s transfers to health enterprises. Still, transfers cover purchases of goods and services that do not enter in the production, as mentioned under Purchase of goods and services.
Investments cover procurements of fixed capital such as buildings, machinery, roads, railroads and equipment. Net acquisition of land is also included in this category. Sales of fixed assets are deducted. Investments in financial objects, such as stocks are not included.
Total expenditure is made up of the sum of own production, transfers and investments.
Input measured in contracted man-years adjusted for long term leaves:
Contracted man-years adjusted for long term leaves is defined as the sum of the number of full-time jobs and part-time jobs converted to full-time equivalents, excluding man-years lost due to doctor-certified absence and parental leave.
See section 3.6.
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Standard classifications
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The population is based upon the Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises’ (BoF), units that are classified as a central government enterprise. The institutional grouping of the economy into sectors is a standard that is based on recommendations for the National Account structure, provided by the United Nations. Norway’s institutional grouping of sectors is based on the Eurostat’s ESA 1995 , which recommends that each country should design their own sector structure which is adapted to the nation’s distinctive characteristics. The central government is a sub-sector within the general government.
Input measured in NOK:
Expenditure is classified by the structure of the national account, which broadly corresponds with the definitions in IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 ( GFSM2001 ). The expenditure is classified into groups, based on whether it is related to the enterprise’s own production of service, transfers in cash or in kind, or investments. In a few cases, the definitions are deviated for the purpose of a more realistic picture of the use of resources.