Eurostat cofog manual

Eurostat-OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities Asterisk product A representative product so called because, when reporting prices, countries participating in Eurostat and OECD comparisons assign asterisks (*) to identify which of the products they have priced are representative. See also representativity indicators. In , Eurostat organised a working group (Task Force on COFOG) whose objective is to ensure that public expenditure information is homogeneous, reliable, complete and comparable across countries. The results of the work are compiled in a manual, the latest edition of which will be published in (Manual on sources and methods for the. The methodological framework is the European system of accounts (ESA ), and the 'Classification of the functions of government' (COFOG), United Nations, as well as the 'Manual on sources and methods for the compilation of COFOG statistics - Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG)', Eurostat, edition.

The data are transmitted to the ECB by Eurostat and are defined by reference to the European System of Accounts (ESA ) (link).The Manual on sources and methods for the compilation of COFOG Statistics (link) provides detailed information on the methodological background for the compilation of COFOG data. The. manual for regional RD and Innovation indicators. Eurostat has for the first time collected data on RD expenditures in the different sectors of the economy broken down by region. Data are available for nine countries (and their regions). The principal reference period is to Eurostat also has common projects with the European Patent. · Manual on sources and methods for COFOG statistics compilation (Eurostat); · European System of Accounts, (ESA ) Eurostat. · Regulation? / of the European Commission of 10 July on the expenditure and revenue of the Government sector.

Eurostat established a task force to develop a manual on the application of COFOG to national account expenditure data and to discuss the collection of second-level COFOG data for European countries. Second-level COFOG data are not available for Switzerland and all non-European member countries of. Moreover, the second-level COFOG data were not always fully comparable among countries because the SNA/UN guide and the International Monetary Fund Manual on Government Finance Statistics did not provide much practical information on the application of COFOG concepts. However, in , Eurostat established a task force on guidance on the application of COFOG to national account expenditure data and to discuss the collection of second-level COFOG data for European countries. This Manual on sources and methods for the compilation of COFOG statistics is its second edition, the first having been produced in The structure is essentially the same as before, covering user.