Working Group for the Development of Macroeconomic Statistics
Chairperson: António Rua
Banco de Portugal
> Mandate
To monitor and issue an opinion on works to implement the new Manuals, in particular the new ESA and the 6th edition of the Balance of Payments Manual, with special enphasis on matters requiring greater clarification of methodologies and procedures to be implemented, such as: redefinition of institutional sectors; redefinition and expansion of the goods and capital formation concepts; compilation of additional information on retirement pension costs; extension of the directional principle to fellow enterprises;
To monitor the adaptation of sources and methods used in the compilation of national accounts and the balance of payments;
To monitor the start of data compilation;
To monitor the main methodological developments in the field of macroeconomic statistics;
To monitor the mais methodological developments in the HIPC;
To develop activities to identify new macroeconomic information requirements, particularly from the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Comission.
> Composition
Statistics Portugal
Banco de Portugal
Regional Statistical Office of the Azores
Ministry of Finance
Office for Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Economy
Regional Statistics Directorate of Madeira
Ministry of Agriculture and Sea
Academic institutions (or persons of standing) with potential interest in this area, by indication of independent representatives in the Council