## Quarterly National Accounts Manual: Concepts, Data Sources, and Compilation

_Manuals & Guides, May 10, 2001_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Nils Øyvind Mæhle, Robert Dippelsman, Adriaan M. Bloem
- Published: May 10, 2001
- Series: Manuals & Guides
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589060319.069

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### Purpose and audience
- Provides guidance to compilers of national accounts on the concepts, data sources, and compilation methods required for development of a system of quarterly national accounts.
- Intended particularly for compilers who already have a knowledge of annual national accounting concepts and methods.
- Aimed also at sophisticated users of quarterly national accounts who require techniques for development of consistent time series of annual and quarterly accounts.

### Key functions and scope
- Techniques for development of a consistent time series of annual and quarterly accounts.
- Guidance on data sources and compilation methods specific to quarterly national accounts.
- Emphasizes the increasing recognition that quarterly national accounts are an essential tool for management and analysis of national economies.

### Relation to existing standards
- Serves as a complement to the System of National Accounts 1993, which has only a limited discussion of quarterly accounts.

### Subject coverage and keywords
- Subject: Consumption, Fiscal accounting and reporting, Labor, National accounts, Price indexes
- Keywords: M&G

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