Activity 2: Quiz (answers)

Activity 2: Quiz (answers) previous

Who oversees the production of a common framework for national accounts?
Answer: UN Statistical Commission, working with other IGOs in the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts (ISWGNA).
What initials identify the current commonly used national accounts frameworks?
Answer: Typically you will find: SNA 2008 and ESA 2010.
How many and which ISIC ‘Revisions’ are you likely find in databases?
Answer: Most countries report to ISIC Revision 4. Occasionally earlier revisions are still in use such as ISIC Revision 3 and ISIC Revision 3.1.
From which IGOs did the International Energy Agency emerge?
Answer: Mainly from the OECD but also from Eurostat, the EU statistical organisation.

Countries and Citizens: Unit 2 Making cross-national comparisons using macro data by Dave Fysh, University of Portsmouth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.