1. National Accounts in Austria
Elisa Huber
Directorate Macroeconomic Statistics
Luxembourg
1st October 2019
DMES Task Force on cross-domain consistency

2. Content Organisational structure Process of NA data compilation
Publication calender and revision policy
Vintage / Consistency issues

3. Organisational structure I

4. Organisational structure II
Production Approach
Thomas Reich
Education Expenditure Statistics
Sabine Martinschitz
Expenditure Approach
Elisa Huber
National Accounts
Ferdinand Leitner
23 FTE
Regional Accounts
Kerstin Gruber
Income Approach, Employment
Johannes Chalupa
Input/Output Statistics
Erwin Kolleritsch
Cross-border Transactions
Robert Leisch
Quarterly National Accounts
Kathrin Lais
Balancing, Analysis, Publication; GNI
Ferdinand Leitner

5. Organisational structure II
National Accounts
Production Approach
Quarterly National Accounts* 1Q 1A 3 5 20 22 26
Expenditure Approach
& 15 16 17
Income Approach, Employment
Input/Output Statistics
Transmission Tables
Cross-border Transactions
Balancing, Analysis, Publication; GNI 10 12 13
Regional Accounts

6. Organisational structure III
Sector Accounts
Karl Schwarz Jürgen Weißenbacher
System of Health Accounts
Waltraud Kavlik
Nonfinancial Accounts of Sector Government
Agnes Singer-Pesau
Sector Accounts and Public Finance
Walter Stübler
14 FTE
Austrian Stability Pact, Tax Revenue
Nora Prean
Financial Accounts of Sector Government
Claudia Hofer Andrea Paukowitsch
Government Debt
Lukas Dörfler
Government Expenditure by Function
Hermine Chromy
Government Revenue & Expenditure, quarterly
Cornelia Lamm

7. Organisational structure IV
Sector Accounts and Public Finance
Sector Accounts 8
801
Austrian Stability Pact, Tax Revenue 9
&
Government Expenditure by Function
Nonfinancial Accounts of Sector Government 11 2
Transmission Tables
Financial Accounts of Sector Government
Government Revenue & Expenditure, quarterly 27 25
Government Debt 28 6 7
Austrian National Bank
* voluntary

8. Organisational structure V
BoP (except trade of goods and services)
Financial sector accounts for S.11, S.12, S.14 and S.15
Austrian National Bank
Annual National Accounts
Annual & Quarterly Non-financial Sector Accounts
Annual & Quarterly Financial Sector Accounts for S.13
Supply and Use Tables & Input Output Tables
Non-financial balance sheets
Regional accounts
Health accounts …
Statistics Austria
Flash Estimates
Quarterly National Accounts*
Austrian Economic Institute

9. Process of NA data compilation I
General remarks:
NA data compilation is a continuous process with input data available at different points in time.
Data publication at specified points in time on the basis of a precise calender (following the requirements of the ESA TP).
Internal deadlines for providers of input data and in order to integrate the relevant accounts.
Decentralized production and centralized dissemination.
Different software in the data compilation process (SAS, R, Excel).
Data storage in SAS datasets or in databases.
Quality controls with manual checks or customized semi-automated checks.

10. Process of NA data compilation II
Quarterly Main Aggregates
Government Accounts
Annual Main Aggregates / SUIOT
Regional Accounts
RoW/BoP
Quarterly Sector Accounts
Annual Sector Accounts

11. Publication calender & revision policy I
General remarks:
Integrated and consistent data set at the end of September. (with exception of regional accounts)
Inconsistencies between tables during the year are due to the publication timetable. (revisions)
In QNA and QSA only the quarters that are not fixed by ANA and ASA are revised.
Last Benchmark revisions in 2014 and (same publication calender)

12. Publication calender & revision policy II
GGA
2018
GGQ
2018 Q4
2015Q1-2018Q3
QSA
2018 Q1-Q3
BoP
GGA after EDP
only when necessary
GDP flash
2019 Q1
ANA
2018
QNA
2019 Q1
2018 Q1-Q4
QSA
2019 Q1
2018 Q1-Q4
GGQ
BoP
First ANA
2018
QNA
2018 Q4
2018 Q1-Q3
GDP flash
2018 Q4
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
2019
New years/quarters
Revised years/quarters

13. Publication calender & revision policy III
BoP
2019 Q2
2016Q1-2019Q1
GGA
2018
GGQ
2018Q1-2019Q1
ANA/GNI
QNA (ex.)
2015Q1-2019Q2
ASA
QSA
2015Q1-2019Q1
BoP
2019 Q3
GGQ
2019 Q1-Q2
QSA
Regional Accounts
2018
SU & IO-Tables
2016
ANA
2018
QNA
2019 Q2
2018Q1-2019Q1
GGA after EDP
only when necessary
GDP flash
2019 Q3
QNA
2019 Q3
2019 Q1-Q2
GDP flash
2019 Q2
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OKTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
2019
New years/quarters
Revised years/quarters

14. Vintage / consistency issues I
Possible vintage differences QNA and QSA…
New inputs in between
BoP: last month of preceeding quarter + potential revisions of previous quarters
Government data (taxes and subsidies, government consumption): last month of preceeding quarter + potential revisions of previous quarters
QNA
t+60
QSA
t+85

15. Vintage / consistency issues II
Recent vintage issue:
Publication of table 801 and (voluntary) table 25 in March 2018.
Table 801 adheres to the data published in table 8 (in September for the years up to 2016).
In table 25 the most recent government consumption was included >> therefore table 25 was no more consistent with table 801.
If table 801 had been made consistent with table 25, it would have no longer been consistent with table 8.
However, all tables (8, 801, 2 and 25) were aligned in the September publication when the most recent government accounts were included in table 8 and 801.

16. Vintage / consistency issues III
If T801 had been made consistent with T25, it would have no longer been consistent with T8.
Table 801
2017 Q4
2017 Q1-Q3
Table 25
2014Q1-2017Q3
GGA
2017
Most recent government consumption for 2014 Q1 to 2016 Q2 was included in T25 but not in T801.
Table 8
2016
SEPTEMBER
OKTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
2017
2018

17. Vintage / consistency issues IV
Government and the Rest of the Accounts: When do vintage differences occur?

18. Vintage / consistency issues V
Numerical example (GDP 2016: MEUR)
Cross section validation by Eurostat detects a vintage difference > 0.075% of annual GDP > 0.3% of quarterly GDP
Revision scenarios

19. National Accounts in Austria
DMES Task Force on cross-domain consistency
Please address queries to:
Elisa Huber
Contact information:
Guglgasse 13, 1110 Vienna
phone: +43 (1)