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Overview of 2008 SNA

Training Workshop on 2008 SNA for ECO Member States

14-17 October 2012, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

GULAB SINGH

United Nations Statistics Division

Content Domestic Economy

• Centre of predominant economic interest • Residency• Notional institutional unit• Branch and Multi-territory institutional units

Economic ownership Measurement of output

• Definition• Recording of output• Three way distinction of Output

Intermediate consumption Gross fixed capita formation Measurement of GDP

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Domestic Economy

All resident units constitute the domestic economy. Residents: Institutional units with their centre of

predominant economic interest in the economic territory.

In the 2008 SNA, residence is defined in the same way as in the BPM6.

Institutional units

• which are not residents of the domestic economy

• but has some transactions with resident units

constitute the Rest of the World (RoW).

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Domestic Economy

Centre of predominant economic interest

Centre of predominant economic interest in an economic territory: the institutional unit should have • some location, dwelling, premises within the economic

territory• an intention to continue - indefinitely or over a long

period of time (operational definition - one year or more)

for carrying out economic activities and transactions on a significant scale.

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Residence

Institutional units Determined by

Individuals Residence of the household of which they form part

Unincorporated enterprises

If not a quasi-corporate, same residence as their owners

Corporations and NPIs

Normally the country of registration or where legally constituted. Branch in a different country → quasi-corporate in the host economy

(i) Owners of land, buildings & immovable structures (ii) extractors of sub-soil resources.

Deemed always to have a centre of economic interest in the country where they are located. Thus, for all land & buildings are owned by non-residents → a notional resident unit (with non-financial asset and direct investment liability)

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Domestic Economy

Notional Residential Unit

When the legal owner of immovable assets such as • land and other natural resources, and • buildings and structures

is actually a non-resident, an artificial unit, called a notional resident unit, is created in the SNA.

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Domestic Economy

Notional Residential Unit (contd.)

The notional resident unit in home country A• owns the asset;• receives the rent or rentals accruing to the asset; and• holds the long-term lease to use natural resources

The legal owner in host country B• owns the equity in the notional resident unit and • receives income from the notional resident unit:

property income paid from A to B.

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Domestic Economy

Branch of non-residential unit

When a non-resident unit (of country A) • has substantial operations • over a significant period in country B, • but no separate legal entity,

a branch is identified in B as an institutional unit. The branch is treated as a resident quasi-corporation of

B. It is owned by the non-resident unit (of country A), known

as the parent.

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Domestic Economy

Multi Territory unit Multi-territory unit: Enterprises with a seamless operation

• over more than one economic territory, • with no separate accounts or decision-making for

each territory• Examples: airlines, shipping lines, hydroelectric

projects on border rivers, pipelines, bridges, tunnels and undersea cables

Not possible to delineate branches. For accounts of each national economy, it is necessary to

• split the operations between economies • by prorating the operations, using an appropriate

indicator.

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Domestic Economy

Economic Ownership The principle of change of ownership is central to

recording of transactions in goods, services and financial assets.

From an economic view point, a change in ownership represents transfer of all the associated risks, rewards, rights and responsibilities.

2008 SNA defines economic ownership as:Economic ownership of commodities or financial assets and liabilities lie with the institutional unit that is entitled to • claim the benefits and • the associated risks

of using them

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Measurement of Output

Output - Definition Output is defined as the goods and services produced by

an establishment, excluding the value of any goods and services

a) used in an activity for which the establishment does not assume the risk of using the products in production,

b) consumed by the same establishment,

except for goods and services used for capital formation (fixed capital or changes in inventories) or own final consumption.

[refer to 6.89 2008 SNA]

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Measurement of Output

Principle of Recording Transactions

2008 SNA recommends that Transactions in services be recorded when they are

provided; Transactions in goods be recorded when there is a

change in economic ownership rather than the legal ownership; and

Assets be recorded on the balance sheets of the economic owner rather than the legal owner.

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Measurement of Output

Treatment of within-enterprise transactions for Further Production

Two Cases:

Not involving change in economic ownership• Receiving establishment does not take on responsibility

for the consequences of the continuation of the production process.

• The 2008 SNA recommends: Output of the receiving establishment is only the processing services.

Involving change in economic ownership• The receiving establishment sells the product in the market and

takes other production-related decisions. • The 2008 SNA recommends: output is the product

(goods).

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Measurement of Output - Examples

1. A is a tea garden and B is the tea processing unit for the garden.

Output of B: only the processing services and not the value of the processed tea.

IC of B does not include the value of raw tea leaves.

Since the ‘economic’ ownership of tea leaves is assumed to have been retained by A.

2. A is a coal mine and B generates electricity and sells. B decides the amount of electricity to be generated and thus amount of coal to be procured from A.

Output of B: Value of electricity sold in the market

IC of B includes the value of coal received from A.

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Measurement of OutputRecording of outputOutput is recorded if the goods and services being

produced are provided (sold or given free) to other institutional

units are used for capital formation of the same

establishment; enter inventories

• even if eventually are withdrawn from inventories for use as intermediate consumption in the same establishment in a later period;

by a household unincorporated enterprise (growing maize, for example) are used for the household’s own consumption;

remain unfinished (work-in-progress) at the end of the accounting period - recorded as being produced and entering inventories.

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Measurement of Output

Disposal of output Output of an enterprise is disposed of in the following

three ways:

Sales - Sale of goods and services for cash, credit, or barter

Change in inventory (CII) - addition/reduction to inventory of finished goods, goods in process, or goods for resale (closing inventory - opening inventory)

Own final use - goods and services used for own final consumption and own capital formation

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Three way distinction of Output

The 2008 SNA makes a three way distinction of output Market output: Those sold in the market at

economically significant prices. Non-market output: Those provided free or at prices

that are not economically significant to other institutional units • These are mainly services produced by the

Government and NPISHs. Output for own final use: Those used for own final

consumption and own capital formation.Economically Significant Prices Prices that have a

significant effect on the amounts that producers are willing to supply and on the amounts purchasers wish to buy.

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Three way distinction of Output

Market output: Those intended for sale at economically significant prices. The

gross value of (market) output includes the value of produced goods & services:• sold at economically significant prices;• bartered in exchange for other goods, services or assets;• used for payments in kind, including compensation in kind;

Market output is measured in three alternative ways:

• Physical output - product of Quantum (unit) and price (value per unit)

• Disposition - sum of all outflow of output , i.e. Sales/shipment + Change in inventory + Own final use

• Input cost - sum of all cost in production i.e.

intermediate consumption + compensation of employees + taxes net of subsidies on production/product + consumption of fixed capital + net operating surplus/ mixed income

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Three way distinction of Output

Non-Market output: Consists of goods and individual or collective services

• produced by non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs) or government

• that are supplied free, or at prices that are not economically significant,

to other institutional units or the community as a whole.

Non-market output is recommended to be measured on cost basis - sum of the following items:

a) Intermediate consumption;

b) Compensation of employees;

c) Consumption of fixed capital;

d) Other taxes (less subsidies) on production.

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Three way distinction of Output

Output for own final use consists of products retained by the producer for his own use as final consumption or capital formation.

This consists of:• goods produced by an unincorporated enterprise and

consumed by the same household;

• services provided to households by paid domestic staff;

• imputed services of owner-occupied dwellings;

• fixed assets produced by an establishment that are retained; (own-account gross fixed capital formation);

• changes in inventories of finished goods and work-in-progress intended for one or other of the above uses.

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Three way distinction of OutputOutput for own final use – valuation Output for own final use should be valued at the basic

prices at which the goods and services could be sold if offered for sale on the market.

When reliable market prices cannot be obtained, the value is deemed to be equal to the sum of their costs of production: (2008 SNA)

a) Intermediate consumption;b) Compensation of employees;c) A net return to fixed capital;d) Consumption of fixed capital;e) Other taxes less subsidies on production.

By convention, no net return to capital is included when own-account production is undertaken by non-market producers.

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Intermediate ConsumptionCoverage Goods and services consumed as inputs by a process

of production, excluding fixed assets whose consumption is recorded as consumption of fixed capital.

The intermediate consumption (IC) of a good or service is recorded at the time when the good or service enters the process of production, and the time of it was acquisition by producer.

A good or service consumed as an intermediate input is valued at the purchaser’s price prevailing at the time it enters the process of production

In general, all goods and services that are produced and used by the same establishment are excluded from the measure of output and intermediate consumption

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Gross fixed capital formation

Coverage Gross fixed capital formation is measured by the total

value of a producer’s acquisitions, less disposals, of fixed assets during the accounting period plus certain specified expenditure on services that adds to the value of non-produced assets.• improvements to existing assets and the cost of ownership• transfer of assets

The asset boundary for fixed assets consists of goods and services that are used in production for more than one year.

Two exclusions from the asset boundary:• Consumer durables, and• Small tools

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Measuring GDP

Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic priceAn enterprise’s earnings from production is the GVA at basic prices

= Receipts from sale of its productions minus (all product taxes – all product subsidies) plus Change in inventory plus output for own final use

minus payments made for purchase of inputs

= Gross value of output at basic prices (GVObp)

minus IC at purchasers prices (ICpurp)

= GVA at basic prices, GVAbp = GVObp - ICpurp

Which gets distributed asCE + OS + MI + other production (t-s)

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Measuring GDP

GDP at market priceGDP – the measure of production – is valued at market prices.

GDP at market prices is defined as (1993 / 2008 SNA),

GDPmp= ΣGVAbp + product (t-s) + (t-s) on imports

GDPmp represents the primary income generated from the production undertaken within the domestic economy.

In the NAS publications, when only GDP is mentioned it is for “GDP at market prices”.

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