1. NATIONAL ACCOUNTS STATISTICS-INDIA
CENTRAL STATISTICAL ORGANISATION
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation

2. SCOPE
The scope is broadly consistent with internationally accepted standards, guidelines.
The production boundary and the asset boundary of India’s national accounts are close to the 1993 SNA recommendations
India meets the ISWGNA’s minimum requirement for implementation of the 1993 SNA
India meets the ISWGNA’s recommended compilations, except for annual supply and use tables

3. COVERAGE Transactions coverage:
The data cover the entire economy; include all activities within SNA production boundary.
However, production of goods (other than those in the agriculture, forestry and fishing) within the households for their own final consumption are not included
Unrecorded activity
Not explicitly accounted for
However, due to the procedures adopted for exhaustive measurement (labour input methods, coverage of total area under crops) of GDP, some of these are implicitly accounted for
Smuggling and other explicit illegal activities are not directly covered in the GDP

4. COMPILATION METHODOLOGY
PRODUCTION
Administrative sources
Area enumeration and crop cutting experiments
Labour input methods for informal sector
INCOME
Annual Accounts and surveys
EXPENDITURE
Budget documents for GFCE
Commodity flow methods for PFCE
Expenditures on GFCF for institutional sector break-up and commodity-flow method for overall GFCF
BoP statistics for exports and imports

5. LEVELS OF DISAGGREGATION
PRODUCTION
Published - About 160 activities
Compiled - about 300 activities
INCOME
Published and unpublished – 19 major activities
EXPENDITURE
PFCE
Compiled for 200 items
Published – 45 items
GFCE
Compiled 50 purposes
Published 17 purposes
GFCF
Published – 2 items; and by 19 economic activities
Compiled – 6 items
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS
Published – only imports and exports
Unpublished – as per HS classification and invisibles

6. CLASSIFICATIONS USED
ISIC REV 3.0 HS
COFOG
COICOP

7. TYPES OF APPROACH
All three approaches
Production GDP is treated as firmer estimate
Discrepancy is recorded in the expenditure GDP
Income approach and production approach GDP are same

8. TYPES OF ACCOUNTS IO tables every 5 years Quarterly national accounts
Annual national accounts

9. STATUS OF COMPLIANCE WITH 1993 SNA
Releases 1993 SNA compliant tables
Fixed base year – revised every 5 years

10. TYPES OF TABLES COMPILED
for the total economy
sequence of accounts (current accounts; and of the accumulation accounts only the capital account and finance account, and the rest of the world account);
social accounting matrix, which depicts all accounts in a single matrix;
for ALL institutional sectors (general government, households (including NPISHs), financial corporations, non-financial corporations)
production and generation of income accounts (of the current accounts);
for the general government and households (incl. NPISHs) sectors
sequence of accounts upto finance account;
GDP at basic prices;
Cross-classification of output and value added by industry;
Cross-classification of value added by industry and institution;
Classification of the functions of the government; and
Classification of individual consumption according to purpose

11. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN MEETING 1993 SNA
Lack of source data
Personnel
Training
Internal demand

12. FUTURE DIRECTION SUPPLY-USE TABLES BY JANUARY, 2010
CHAIN-BASE BY JANUARY, 2012
SNA 2008

13. THANKS