In this paper a number of problems are discussed concerning the introduction in transition countries of national accounts according to the 1993 System of National Accounts. These concern the classification of government owned enterprises and their transactions, valuation problems, undercoverage...

Countries compiling quarterly estimates for gross domestic product (GDP) often use alternative approaches simultaneously. This may result in the publication of different measures of quarterly GDP and discrepancies between these measures. Such discrepancies are unavoidable, unless reconciliation...

Comprehensive coverage of national accounts estimates is important; however, it is often thwarted by gaps in the recording of economic activity - the so-called unrecorded economy. This paper sets out pragmatic statistical approaches for incorporating the unrecorded economy in the national...