NATIONAL ACCOUNTS ESA. AGGREGATES 1960-1979

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NATIONAL ACCOUNTS ESA - AGGREGATES
COMPTES NATIONAUX SEC - AGRÉGATS
NATIONALE REKENINGEN ESER - TOTALEN
1960-1979
1981 DE EUROPÆISKE FÆLLESSKABERS STATISTISKE KONTOR
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vermeld zijn. NATIONAL ACCOUNTS ESA
Aggregates
COMPTES NATIONAUX SEC
Agrégats
NATIONALE REKENINGEN ESER
Totalen
1960-1979
Manuscript completed in November 1980
Manuscrit terminé en novembre 1980
Manuscript in november 1980 afgesloten Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
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Luxembourg: Office des publications officielles
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ISBN 92-825-2134-6
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Printed in Belgium INTRODUCTION
total supply of goods and services. It constitutes, The Statistical Office of the European Communities
presents in this volume the most recent figures for in fact, a consolidated goods and services
the principal national accounts aggregates of account in that uses do not include intermediate
Member countries drawn up according to the consumption while resources include gross
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) (6).
The present volume comprises three sections :
I. Country tables in national currencies ;
The following points should be noted :
II.ys in ECU;
— For the Federal Republic of Germany, the III. Comparative tables in purchasing power stan­
SOEC has modified, on the basis of ESA dards.
definitions, the series for final consumption of
The data are given at current prices and at 1975
households and collectiven of
prices; they cover the periods 1960 and 1964 to
general government, at both current and 1975
1979.
prices, by including in the first series social
benefits in kind, which are included in collective
consumption of general government under the
German system.
Section I gives for each Member country, for the
— Constant price data at 1975 prices were supplied three applicant countries (Spain, Greece, Portugal)
by the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and for the United States and Japan, the following
the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, tables :
Ireland and Denmark. The figures at constant
— table 1 — Principal aggregates : this table shows prices supplied by the other countries were still
the principal aggregates of the system and the based on 1970 prices and have been rebased at
elements connecting them. Data at 1975 prices 1975 prices by SOEC. The aggregates (final uses,
are given only for gross and net domestic GDP, etc.) were rebased separately and do not
product at market prices and for compensation correspond exactly to the sum of their com­
of employees. The latter is obtained by deflation ponents. In almost all cases, the differences are
by means of the price index of gross domestic less than 1 % of GDP, even for the earliest years.
product at market prices.
— For the three applicant countries, the data are
— table 2 — Aggregates related to population and based on their national accounts systems,
employment : this table gives certain aggregates adapted, as far as possible, to ESA concepts.
related to total population, to occupied popu­ They have been provided by the national
lation or to wage and salary earners. The private statistical institutes and are supplemented by
consumption shown in this table is equal to the SOEC estimates.
sum of final consumption of households on the
It should be noted that for some countries the data economic territory and collective consumption
are presented here in thousand million units of of private non-profit institutions.
national currency to two decimal places, whereas
At 1975 prices, table 2 shows gross domestic the basic data are in millions. Consequently, the
product at market prices per head of total totals may not always tally exactly with the sum of
population and per head of occupied popu­ the individual items.
lation, final and private consumption on the
* economic territory per head of total population
* * and compensation of employees per wage and
salary earner.
Section II presents the same tables as Section I,
— table 3 — Use and supply of goods and services : expressed in ECU. The country data are preceded
by the same set of tables for the Community as a this table shows, for the national economy as a
whole (EUR 9). whole, the balance between total final use and
(a) Statistical Office of the European Communities: 'European System of Integrated Economic Accounts (ESA)', 1980.
(b) United Nations: 'A System of National Accounts', Studies in Methods, Series F, No 2, rev. 3, New York 1968.
Ill Section ΙΠ presents, for the principal ESA ag­The ECU is a 'basket' unit, based on a certain
gregates, data (overall and per capita) for the quantity of each Community currency, weighted on
Community as a whole (EUR 9) and for each the basis of the average gross national product over
member country, expressed in real terms and five years (1969-1973) and of the intra-Community
therefore providing a meaningful comparison trade of each Member State. The exchange rates
between countries. A note explaining the method of used are shown on page 89.
calculating the purchasing power parities used to
It must be emphasized that the exchange rates do
arrive to the aggregates in real terms expressed in
not reflect the relationships between the domestic
purchasing power standards is given at the end of
purchasing powers of the currencies. A country-by-
this introduction.
country comparison of values in ECU cannot
therefore be regarded as providing an indication of
the real differences between countries. Better
For technical reasons, it has not been possible to
comparability can be achieved only by converting
present the tables in all the Community languages.
the national currencies by means of rates expressing
In this edition they are published in English and in
purchasing power standards. This is the aim of the
French. At the end of the introduction, the text and
following section.
table headings are given in Dutch.
In a separate edition, the tables are published in
German and in Italian; a Danish translation is *
included.
* *
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
F France LIT Italian lira
I Italy HFL Guilder
NL BFR Belgian franc Netherlands
Β Belgium LFR Luxembourg franc
L Luxembourg UKL Pound sterling
UK United Kingdom IRL Irish pound
IR Ireland DKR Danish krone
DR DK Denmark Drachma
0 nil or insignificant PES Peseta
not available ESC Escudo
uncertain or estimated USD US dollar O
million ECU European currency unit Mio
IV DEFINITION OF THE ESA AGGREGATES
Domestic product at market prices : (+) or net borrowing (-) of the nation (N5) should
be equal to the net change in financial assets and This aggregate represents the result of the production
liabilities vis-à-vis the rest of the world (N6). But as activity of resident producer units. It corresponds to
these two aggregates are calculated in different the economy's output of goods and services, plus
ways and on the basis of different statistical data, taxes linked to imports and less intermediate con­
a discrepancy will usually be found between them sumption.
(ESA § 135)