8 June 2017

Eurostat task force on national accounts will meet on 12 and 13 June at the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO).

The meeting will be attended by fifteen experts from National Statistical Institutes including representatives of Eurostat, the European Central Bank, and the OECD. They will discuss mainly the so-called digital economy and non-market services.

“The sharing economy is related to development of mediation of services among households. For example, it is about sharing of taxi services and accommodation. Estimation and an impact of these services on national accounts indicators will be on the agenda of the meeting,” Vladimír Kermiet from the CZSO National Accounts Department says.

Non-market services, which comprise e.g. health and education, are the only products, for which a quality change has not been taken into account, yet, for making estimates of volume indicators. Resulting from the meeting will be a list of recommendations that will be included in the future standards of national accounting.

The meeting follows a meeting, which took place in Luxembourg in January at which the task force was founded and where priorities and expected outputs regarding the volume indicators estimates were defined.

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