Scottish Government

15 November 2013

Peer review of Gross National Income (GNI) for Scotland methodology (paper) - Martin Kellaway

The peer review of the methodology used to estimate the Balance of Payments income account and Gross National Income for Scotland, produced by Martin Kellaway.  Martin Kellaway is an adviser to Eurostat on National Accounts and a former head of the ONS National Accounts Unit.

15 April 2013

Experimental Quarterly National Accounts: a guide to their use (paper) - Andrew Mortimer

This paper provides users with an overview of the relative quality of variables published in the experimental quarterly national accounts release.  The key features of data sources and methodologies used in the construction of each variable is described and a subjective measure of quality assigned to each.

10 March 2011

Quarterly National Accounts Methodology Guide (paper) - Andrew Mortimer

This paper documents the methodologies, systems and data sources used in the production of the Quarterly National Accounts statistics which have been released on a trial basis. This paper (version 1) is consistent with the 2010 Q3 QNA release (January 2011).

6 October 2009

Producing economic statistics and advice for Scotland (presentation) - Sandy Stewart

A presentation given to the Highland Economic Forum which discussed the current status of economic statistics in Scotland, the range of regional economic statistics and SNAP-related developments.

7 May 2009

Arithmetic Estimation of Quarterly Supply/Use (QSU) Tables - Andrew Mortimer

Submitted to the Scottish Economic Statistics Consultants Group. This paper, and related presentation, documents the early development stages of a future balancing system for Scottish quarterly national accounts. The following presentation accompanies this paper: Quarterly Supply & Use framework for Scotland

Quarterly Household Final Consumption Expenditure (HHFCE) for Scotland - Kenny Grant

Submitted to the Scottish Economic Statistics Consultants Group. This paper outlines the methodologies used to produce experimental quarterly measures of Household Final Consumption Expenditure for Scotland. The following presentation accompanies this paper: Calculation of HHFCE

Constructing Scottish quarterly GDP estimates: income based (presentation) - Sandy Stewart

This presentation discusses the development of an experimental income measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Scotland.

24 April 2009

SNAP! (presentation) - Sandy Stewart

A presentation given to Karen Dunnell (National Statistician) on SNAP developments.

8 April 2009

The use of the Scottish Input-Output framework for policy evaluation (presentation)

Delivered to the ESRC Stakeholder Seminar on accounting for and modelling the pollution content of trade flows, carbon footprints and other indicators of sustainable development", Monday 6 April 2009, Cardiff University.

12 December 2008

Regional Accounts GVA estimates 1995-2007

Examines the latest publication of the Regional Accounts produced by the Office for National Statistics

10 December 2008

Producing current price GDP estimates for Scotland, Sandy Stewart

Published in Scottish Economic Statistics 2008

29 October 2008

Introduction to the Scottish National Accounts Project (presentation)

Presentation delivered to the Scottish Economic Statistics Consultants Group (SESCG) to launch the project.