Present and Future Challenges to the System of National Accounts: Linking Micro and Macro
回顾国民账户体系过去三四十年的演变,分析其在数据来源、处理技术和用户需求方面面临的主要挑战,并提出未来发展方向。
The System of National Accounts has changed dramatically over the past decades, and it will continue to change, as a consequence of changes in the environment of producing statistics. These changes do not only relate to the user demands, also the source data and the means, in the sense of the available technologies for compiling national accounts, have undergone and will continue to undergo significant changes. After a short historic review of the main evolutions in the past three to four decades, the paper addresses the main developments and challenges in relation to the sources for compiling national accounts (input), the technologies for processing data (throughput), and the user demands (output) in the area of national accounts. The article concludes with some ideas and suggestions on how to move forward.