Description of methods and sources for Albania - INSTAT

IPA 2009 Multi-beneficiary StatisticalCooperation Programmeand the second HBS, in 2000, covered Tirana and other urban areas, with 5,389households. In 2006-2007, HBS was conducted in a national coverage.Gross Fixed Capital Formation, General Government and NPISH final consumptionexpenditure are covered almost by the same data sources as GDP by the productionapproach.Exports and imports of goods and services are estimated according to customsstatement data and data of the balance of payments, prepared by the Bank of Albania.Data sources and their use are described in detail in individual chapters ofexpenditure components.5.1.1 Household final consumption expenditure (HFCE).Households are defined in parag. 2.75 of ESA95. Final consumption expenditure ofhouseholds is primarily made up of goods and services purchased in the market butalso includes consumption of household production for own final use, such as theservices of owner-occupied dwellings, and goods or services received as income inkind. It does not include social transfers in kind, intermediate consumption or grosscapital formation, acquisitions of non-produced assets, payments to NPISHs, taxesother than taxes on products, or voluntary transfers (see parag 3.76-3.77 of ESA95)Data sources are very limited for household consumption in Albanian NationalAccounts. Household Budget Survey (HBS), based on COICOP classification, wasconducted in 2006-2007 for the first time with national coverage (previous surveyscovered only urban areas or only Tirana) and seems to have followed good surveypractice. But this data is not used for the 2006 calculations. Household consumptionpublished for the 2006 is based on 2005 data, by extrapolating them with the growthrate of services to households.5.1.2 NPISH final consumption expenditureThere is a law in Albanian Republic, No. 8788, dated 7.5.2001, for Non-profitInstitutions. This law establishes the rules for foundation, registration, operation,organization and activity of non-profit organizations, which pursue the purposes andpublic interest.By this law, Non-profit Institutions are associations, foundations and centers, activityof which is developed independently and without being influenced by the state.Main data source of this component is a survey prepared in 1998. The sources andmethods of calculating NPISH final consumption expenditure are explained inparagraph 5.8.86/236