national accounts

5 min read 2021-12-21 20:41:00

Underestimating housing consumption in the national accounts

It's not just household-level data such as the SILC where our approaches to the provision of social housing present measurement issues. In the

9 min read 2021-12-01 09:24:41

Today (December 1, 2021), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and

7 min read 2021-11-30 09:43:18

Yesterday (November 29, 2021), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Business Indicators – for the September-quarter 2021.

1 min read 2021-11-05 20:23:00

The distortions in Ireland’s national accounts means that the contribution of some sectors can be overlooked as it cannot be disentangled from huge

1 min read 2021-11-03 21:33:00

The current account of the balance of payments is an important indicator of imbalances in an economy. The historical estimates of Ireland’s

1 min read 2021-07-23 19:08:00

Ireland’s balance of payments is subject to huge volatility. Among the reasons for this are transactions in intellectual property and aircraft

3 min read 2021-04-08 23:54:00

There are lots of reasons not the look at the figures for Ireland’s non-financial corporate sector in the quarterly institutional sector accounts

1 min read 2021-04-08 23:54:00

There are lots of reasons not the look at the figures for Ireland’s non-financial corporate sector in the quarterly institutional sector accounts

4 min read 2021-02-16 17:59:00

US MNCs causing distortions within Ireland’s national accounts is not unusual. As a small economy it means the impact of these can be outsized

1 min read 2021-02-16 17:59:00

US MNCs causing distortions within Ireland’s national accounts is not unusual. As a small economy it means the impact of these can be outsized

5 min read 2020-11-11 00:41:00

In an earlier post we went through some of the remarkable improvements for the household sector in recent years. Of course, an outstanding question

2 min read 2020-08-17 18:44:00

There are lots of things that can go on a national balance sheet. National accounts can give one perspective. As set out in a previous post there

2 min read 2020-07-23 22:57:00

The CSO have published the details of CA*, Ireland’s current account of the balance of payments modified for some of the effects of MNCs. The

2 min read 2020-06-23 19:03:00

Government spending, excluding spending on old-age social protection, in the countries that made up the EU28 in 2018 was equivalent to around 35.8

3 min read 2020-06-22 22:33:00

In the general government accounts we usually think of government capital spending in terms of gross fixed capital formation, i.e. investment in