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Consolidated SNA Research Agenda

Updated - April 2022.

The consolidated list of SNA research issue is based on the feedback from the SNA research agenda task force and the AEG and presented in two parts, the Priority issues and the Long-term SNA. The Priority issues for the research agenda are presented in five sections and the order is not intended to imply a prioritization within the categories. Sections I to III list the issues related to Globalization, Digitalization and Well-being and sustainability; Section IV is a list of cross cutting issues; and Section V presents relevant compilation issues. The Long-term SNA research agenda are presented in the categories listed in annex IV to the 2008 SNA.

The detailed descriptions of the 2008 SNA update issues can be found here and the list of guidance notes for the updating of the 2008 SNA can be found here.

The research agenda described in annex IV to the 2008 SNA can be found here.

The list of issues under discussion between the adoption of the 2008 SNA and the start of the update process for the 2025 SNA can be found here.

Priority Research Issues


I.	Globalization

	1. A typology of global production arrangements

	2. Factoryless goods producers and recording of their transactions

	3. Merchanting

	4. Special Purpose Entities and identifying economic presence and residency

	5. Economic ownership of Intellectual Property Products (IPPs)

	6. CIF/FOB recording of imports and exports

	7. Price and volume measurement related to globalization

	8. New data sources needed to measure global production

	9. Nationality concept / Extension of IIP on a nationality basis

	10. New methods to measure global production

	11. Analysing global value chains and trade in value added amplifies the need of high-quality statistics on global production in national and international accounts statistics

II.	Digitalization

	12. Satellite framework for the digital economy

	13. Household production and consumption of digital products

	14. Free digital products and services

	15. The role of data and the SNA asset boundary

	16. Price and volume measures related to digital products

	17. Crypto assets

III.	Wellbeing and sustainability

	18. The broader framework for wellbeing and sustainability

	19. Distribution of household income, consumption, saving and wealth

	20. Education and human capital, labour and productivity

	21. Health and social conditions

	22. Unpaid household activities

	23. Valuation and delineation of natural resources

	24. Accounting for depletion

	25. Losses

	26. Accounting for ecosystems

IV.	Cross cutting issues

	27. The relationship of SNA and IASB

	28. Statistical units

	29. Trusts

	30. Broadening the fixed asset boundary to include other intellectual property assets

	31. Leases to use or exploit natural resources

	32. Treatment of Private-Public Partnerships

V.	Compilation issues

	33. Harmonization of SNA and BOP

	34. Islamic finance

	35. Informal Economy

Long-term SNA Research Issues


	36. Final consumption of corporations

	37. Measuring the output of government services

	38. The treatment of social transfers in kind to the rest of the world

	39. Output of central banks: taxes and subsidies on interest rates applied by central banks

	40. The inclusion of international organizations in the SNA

	41. Clarification of the income concept in the SNA

	42. GDP at basic prices

	43. The role of taxes in the SNA

	44. Life insurance

	45. Reinvested earnings

	46. Accruing interest in the SNA

	47. Calculation of FISIM

	48. High inflation

	49. The measurement of neutral and real holding gains and losses

	50. Income arising from assets

	51. Issues arising from a financial crisis

	52. Recognition of social security entitlements as liabilities

	53. Wider use of fair value for loans

	54. Provisions

	55. Debt concessionality

	56. Equity valuation and its implications

	57. Reverse transactions

	58. Tradable emission permits

	59. Costs of ownership transfer of valuables and non-produced assets

	60. Distinction between current maintenance and capital repairs

	61. Transfer of ownership of an asset during its life

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