Description of methods and sources for Albania - INSTAT

IPA 2009 Multi-beneficiary StatisticalCooperation Programmeand by the expenditure approach are not eliminated in the process of finalization ofestimates.Therefore, the practice to show or publish statistical discrepancies as the differencebetween GDP by the production and by the expenditure approach is used incompiling and publishing national account data. Statistical discrepancies arepublished together with changes in inventories. The table 6.1 shows the differencesbetween the two approaches of GDP.Albanian National Accounts sector, during the TWINING project, in cooperationwith ISTAT has tried to develop a simplified input-output system based on asymmetric table (IOT). This approach did not completely fulfill ESA95recommendations since it did not include the compilation of supply and use tablesthat are not possible to compile, given the current state of the art of basic statistics.Thus, this method is not used yet to make balancing procedure between the two GDPapproaches in Albania. INSTAT will start to develop a strategy in order to makeSUT and to collect the necessary data sources to do it in the future.49Table 6.1Differences in two approaches of GDPIn Million LEKProduction ApproachExpenditure ApproachAgriculture, 154,648Final Consumption ofHouseholds 680,323Industry 88,207Final Consumption of GeneralGovernment 89,411Construction 113,724 Consumption of NPISH-s 1,371-Trade, Hotels andRestaurants 166,125-Transport 43,350 Gross Fixed Capital Formation 343,882-Post and Communication 31,614-Other Services 197,517 Net export -208,067FISIM (-) 30,446Change in inventories &Taxes on products 121,188 statistical discrepancies *-24,712Subsidies on products (-) 3,718GDP 882,209 GDP 882,209* The item “Change in inventory and statistical discrepancies” represent thedifferences between the two approaches of published GDP.6.2 Other approaches used to validate GDPThe most important step to validate the estimates of GDP level and particularlyexhaustiveness was the introduction of Input Labor Method in year 2005.Thus, the labor input statistics are used for the validation of estimates of GDP by theproduction approach, which allows the analysis of data exhaustiveness by activitylevel.102/236