Controversial issues of implementation of SNA 2008 in national statistical practice

The article considers selected issues of implementation of SNA 2008 in contemporary official statistics. Currently statistical offices of many countries of the world initiated work on implementation of the SNA 2008. However, it is clear from the report submitted last year by the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts to the Economic and Social Council of United Nations there are still many countries which continue to compile national accounts on the basis of the SNA 1993. This is associated with the problems of securing primary data essential for accounts compilation as well as with harmonization of various systems of macroeconomic statistics. On the other hand, new treatment of a number of important transactions and assets requires revision of national accounts of countries, introduction of new definitions and classifications, and this is a time consuming process. Some provisions of the SNA 2008 clear from a conceptual point of view are difficult to implement in practice. Problems of implementation of SNA 2008 continue to be discussed at various forums and in specialized literature. Thus in 2015 the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) together with the OECD organized the international conference on national accounts and problems of implementation of the SNA 2008. In the conference participated a lot of internationally acclaimed experts in the field of national accounts. The authors summarize rather controversial opinions expressed by the participants with regard to innovations in the SNA 2008 from the perspective of the necessity to adapt international standards of national accounting to the distinguishing features of the socio-economic structure of the countries and their national statistical practices.

СНС 2008, международные стандарты национального счетоводства и национальная статистическая практика, глобализация и национальный статистический учет, международная сопоставимость, резиденты, экономические операции, активы, услуги капитала, SNA 2008, international standards of national accounting and national statistical practice, globalization and national statistical accounting, international comparability, residents, economic transactions, assets, capital services

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