Full Name (abbr.): System of National Accounts 2008
URL: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/
Objective of the initiative
Published in 2009
Possible or Committed Parties to this Initiative
The System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA) is a statistical framework that provides a comprehensive, consistent and flexible set of macroeconomic accounts for policymaking, analysis and research purposes. It has been produced and is released under the auspices of the United Nations, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. It represents an update, mandated by the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2003, of the System of National Accounts, 1993, which was produced under the joint responsibility of the same five organizations.
Milestones
Starts when a suitable number of contributors and donors have been identified, or
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The System of National Accounts 2008 (lvi+662 pages, 9,4 Megabyte) is available in six languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) from http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/sna2008.asp
