Note: [1] An earlier version of this paper was printed at the 1986 ECE national accounts workshop. We are grateful for the comments of the participants of the workshop and of Sir Richard Stone, H.J. Adler and A. Franz. Naturally, none of them is responsable for the views expressed in the paper.
Note: [2] Comelis van Bochove (born 1950) graduated in econometrics and mathematical economics at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 1974 he became assistant professor, at Erasmus University, of general economic research and micro-economics. In 1982 he published a dissertation on imports and economic growth. Since 1983 he is chief of the National Accounts research division at the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics.
Note: [3] Adriaan Bloem (born 1942) graduated in agricultural economics at Wageningen Agricultural University in 1968. He did marketing research until he joined the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics in 1975. He was chief of a division of services statistics, head of the department of financial and government finance statistics and, since 1984, of the department of National Accounts.
Abstract: There are two basic issues with respect to the structure of the next version of the UN System of National Accounts. The first is its ‘size’: reviewing this issue, it can be concluded that the next SNA must be ‘large’ in the sense of containing an integrated meso-economic statistical system. The second issue concerns the analytical nature of the system. It is essential that the next SNA contains an institutional system without the imputations and attributions that pollute present SNA. This can be achieved by distinguishing, in the central system of the next SNA, a core (the institutional system), a standard module for non-market production and a standard module describing attributed income and consumption of the household sector.
