ON REVISIONS IN NATIONAL ACCOUNTS ESTIMATES1

Revisions to the National Health Accounts and methodology

Sustainable Development Indicators Based on National Accounts

National statistical institutes have recently presented a set of indicators for sustainable development. The indicators present different topics and the simultaneous achievement of different goals. That is, economic, social and environmental goals. Statistics Denmark also presented a series of indicators for sustainable development in 2003. However, policy analysis of sustainable development re...

Toward National Well-Being Accounts

Economists have traditionally eschewed direct measures of well-being on methodological grounds: the private nature of experience and the discomfort of making interpersonal comparisons. Instead, income is often used as a proxy for opportunities and well-being. If people are not fully rational, however, their choices will not necessarily maximize their experienced utility, and increasing their op...

Real-time National Accounts Data

ing from the statistical detail of these changes, the cautionary implication for policy-makers is clear: to the extent that inputs like the economy’s growth rate are used in the policy formation process, the substantial inherent uncertainty surrounding such data needs to be recognised. This uncertainty complicates the task of responding to the ‘true’ state of the economy, and suggests the dange...

Estimates of National Health Accounts

The authors are indebted to Chandika Indikadahena who has maintained the data files on which the NHA-2000 have been constructed. This construction would not have been possible without an input from several dozen persons who have responded to data request and commented preliminary versions of the data files; this input will be acknowledged in a forthcoming releases on NHA.