ESA 2010 Chapter 22 Satellite Accounts

Abstract

This chapter of the new European guidelines on national accounting (ESA 2010) describes and discusses satellite accounts. Satellite accounts elaborate or modify the tables and accounts in the central framework of the national accounts to serve specific data needs. The major characteristics of satellite accounts are discussed. Furthermore, nine different satellite accounts are described briefly: agricultural accounts, environmental accounts, health accounts, household production accounts, labour accounts and social accounting matrices, productivity and growth accounts, R&D accounts, social protection accounts and tourism accounts.