NATIONAL ACCOUNTS ESA - AGGREGATES 1960-1978

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NATIONAL ACCOUNTS ESA - AGGREGATES
COMPTES NATIONAUX SEC - AGRÉGATS
NATIONALE REKENINGEN ESER - TOTALEN
1960-1978
1980 DE EUROPÆISKE FÆLLESSKABERS STATISTISKE KONTOR
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vermeld zijn. NATIONAL ACCOUNTS ESA
Aggregates
COMPTES NATIONAUX SEC
Agrégats
NATIONALE REKENINGEN ESER
Totalen
1960-1978
Manuscript completed in March 1960
Manuscrit terminé en mars 1980
Manuscript in maart 1980 afgesloten Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
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Printed in Belgium 1980
ISBN 92-825-1709-8
Cat. : CA-29-79-336-3D-C INTRODUCTION
total supply of goods and services. It constitutes, The Statistical Office of the European Communities
in fact, a consolidated goods and services presents in this volume the most recent figures for
account in that uses do not include intermediate the principal national accounts aggregates of
consumption while resources include gross Member countries drawn up according to the
domestic product at market prices and not the European System of Integrated Economic Ac­
total output of goods and services. counts (ESA) (a), a Community version of the
United Nations' revised system of national ac­
Data are given at current and at 1975 prices.
counts (SNA) (b).
The present volume comprises three sections :
*
I.Country tables in national currencies; * *
II. Countrys in EUA
III.Comparative tables in purchasing power stan­ The following points should be noted :
dards.
— For the Federal Republic of Germany, the
The data are given at current prices and at 1975 SOEC has modified, on the basis of ESA
prices; they cover the periods 1960 and 1963 to definitions, the series for final consumption of
1978. households and collectiven of
* general government, at both current and 1975
* * prices, by including in the first series social
benefits in kind, which are included in collective
Section I gives for each Member country, for the consumption of general government under the
three applicant countries (Spain, Greece, Portugal) German system.
and for the United States and Japan, the following
— The figures for Italy have been substantially
tables :
revised as a result in particular of more
comprehensive coverage of certain sections of — table 1 — Principal aggregates : this table shows
the economy. This has led to an increase of the principal aggregates of the system and the
approximatively 9 % in the level of GDP. In elements connecting them. Data at 1975 prices
addition, following the institutional reform in are given only for gross and net domestic
1975, public hospitals in Italy were transferred product at market prices and for compensation
to the general government sector (sub-sector of employees. The latter is obtained by deflation
local authorities). In order to ensure continuity by means of the price index of gross domestic
over time, health expenditure in these hospitals product at market prices.
has been transferred from consumption of
— table 2 — Aggregates related to population and households to collectiven for the
employment : this table gives certain aggregates entire period from 1960 to 1978.
related to total population, to occupied popu­
— Constant price data at 1975 prices were supplied
lation or to wage and salary earners. The private
by the Netherlands, Belgium, the United King­
consumption shown in this table is equal to the
dom and Ireland. The figures at constant prices
sum of final consumption of households on the
supplied by the other countries were still based
economic territory and collective consumption
on 1970 prices and have been rebased at 1975
of private non-profit institutions.
prices by SOEC. The aggregates (final uses,
At 1975 prices, table 2 shows gross domestic GDP, etc.) were rebased separately and do not
product at market prices per head of total correspond exactly to the sum of their com­
population and per head of occupied popu­ ponents. In almost all cases, the differences are
lation, final and private consumption jon the less than 1 % of GDP, even for the earliest years.
economic territory per head of total population
— For the three applicant countries, the data are
and compensation of employees per wage and
based on their national accounts systems,
salary earner.
adapted, as far as possible, to ESA concepts.
They have been provided by the national — table 3 — Use and supply of goods and services :
statistical institutes and are supplemented by this table shows, for the national economy as a
SOEC estimates. whole, the balance between total final use and
(a) Statistical Office of the European Communities : 'European System of Integrated Economic Accounts (ESA)', 1970.
(b) United Nations: 'A System of National Accounts', Studies in Methods, Series F, No 2, rev. 3, New York 1968. therefore be regarded as providing an indication of — The data for the United States and Japan are
the real differences between countries. Better now based on the new SNA. In the case of
comparability can be achieved only by converting Japan, the pre-1965 series are temporarily
the national currencies by means of rates expressing missing.
purchasing power standards. This is the aim of the
It should be noted that for some countries the data
following section.
are presented here in thousand million units of
national currency to two decimal places, whereas
the basic data are in millions. Consequently, the
Section III presents, for the principal ESA ag­
totals may not always tally exactly with the sum of
gregates, data (overall and per capita) for the
the individual items.
Community as a whole (EUR 9) and for each
member country, expressed in real terms and
therefore providing a meaningful comparison
between countries. A note explaining the method of
Section II presents the same tables as Section I, calculating the purchasing power parities used to
expressed in EUA. The country data are preceded
arrive to the aggregates in real terms expressed in
by the same set of tables for the Community as a purchasing power standards is given at the end of
whole (EUR 9).
this introduction.
* The EUA is a 'basket' unit, based on a certain
quantity of each Community currency, weighted on * ·
the basis of the average gross national product over For technical reasons, it has not been possible to
five years (1969-1973) and of the intra-Community present the tables in all the Community languages.
trade of each Member State. The exchange rates In this edition they are published in English and in
used are shown on page 89. French. At the end of the introduction, the text and
table headings are given in Dutch.
It must be emphasized that the exchange rates do
not reflect the relationships between the domestic In a separate edition, the tables are published in
German and in Italian; a Danish translation is purchasing powers of the currencies. A country-by-
included. country comparison of values in EUA cannot
SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Total of the Member countries of the European Mrd thousand million EUR 9
Communities DM German mark
D Federal Republic of Germany FF French franc
France Italian lira F LIT
I Italy Guilder HFL
NL Netherlands BFR Belgian franc
Β Belgium LFR Luxembourg franc
Luxembourg Pound sterling L UKL
United Kingdom Irish pound UK IRL
Ireland IR Danish krone DKR
Denmark DK DR Drachma
nil or insignificant 0 PES Peseta
not available ESC Escudo
uncertain or estimated USD US dollar O
million European unit of account Mio EUA
II DEFINITION OF THE E