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The OECD's quarterly national accounts (QNA) dataset presents data collected from all the OECD member countries and some other major economies on the basis of a standardised questionnaire. It contains a wide selection of generally seasonally adjusted quarterly series most widely used for economic analysis. It contains a wide selection of generally seasonally adjusted quarterly series most widely used for economic analysis from 1960 or whenever available:

- GDP expenditure and output approaches (current prices and volume estimates);
- GDP income approach (current prices);
- Gross fixed capital formation (current prices and volume estimates) broken down separately by type of asset or product and by institutional sector;
- Disposable income and Real disposable income components;
- Saving and net lending (current prices);
- Population and Employment (in persons);
- Employment by industry (in persons and hours worked);
- Compensation of employees (current prices);
- Household final consumption expenditure by durability (current prices and volume estimates).

Please note that OECD reference year changed from 2010 to 2015 on Tuesday 3rd of December, 2019.
The present publication presents time series which extend beyond the date of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union on 1 February 2020. In order to maintain consistency over time, the “European Union” aggregate presented here excludes the UK for the entire time series. Interested readers may refer to the Eurostat website FAQ for further information on Eurostat’s plans for disseminating EU aggregates and to the Eurostat Database for the actual series.

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Bibliographic citation:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Quarterly National Accounts (2021Q3 Edition). UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5257/oecd/qna/2021Q3

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19 November 2021

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Annual: 1947 to 2021
Quarterly: Q1 1947 to Q3 2021

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The main purpose of this dataset is to provide relevant, reliable, consistent, comparable and timely quarterly national accounts for OECD member countries, some non-member countries and some area totals for analytical purposes. All the OECD member countries compile their accounts according to the 2008 SNA, as well as almost all the non-member countries

Quarterly National AccountsAbstract

The OECD's quarterly national accounts (QNA) dataset presents data collected from all the OECD member countries and some other major economies on the basis of a standardised questionnaire. It contains a wide selection of generally seasonally adjusted quarterly series most widely used for economic analysis. It contains a wide selection of generally seasonally adjusted quarterly series most widely used for economic analysis from 1960 or whenever available:

- GDP expenditure and output approaches (current prices and volume estimates);
- GDP income approach (current prices);
- Gross fixed capital formation (current prices and volume estimates) broken down separately by type of asset or product and by institutional sector;
- Disposable income and Real disposable income components;
- Saving and net lending (current prices);
- Population and Employment (in persons);
- Employment by industry (in persons and hours worked);
- Compensation of employees (current prices);
- Household final consumption expenditure by durability (current prices and volume estimates).

Please note that OECD reference year changed from 2010 to 2015 on Tuesday 3rd of December, 2019.
The present publication presents time series which extend beyond the date of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union on 1 February 2020. In order to maintain consistency over time, the “European Union” aggregate presented here excludes the UK for the entire time series. Interested readers may refer to the Eurostat website FAQ for further information on Eurostat’s plans for disseminating EU aggregates and to the Eurostat Database for the actual series.

Eurostat Databasehttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/national-accounts/data/databaseEurostat Websitehttps://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/faq/brexit
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Get in touchhttps://ukdataservice.ac.uk/about-us/contactDirect source

Bibliographic citation:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Quarterly National Accounts (2021Q3 Edition). UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5257/oecd/qna/2021Q3

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QNA Changes for information on changes in methodology (XLS)/metadata/OECD/QNA/QNA_Changes_2021Q3.xlsQNA on OECD.Stat for detailed information on the database structure and codification (PDF)/metadata/OECD/QNA/QNAonOECDStat_eng2021Q3.pdfSNA 93 Glossary (PDF)/metadata/OECD/QNA/Glossary_SNA93_2021Q3.pdfThe changeover to the SNA 2008: "New standards for compiling national accounts" (PDF)/metadata/oecd/qna/SNA2008_new_standards_2021Q3.pdf2008 SNA (PDF)/metadata/oecd/qna/SNA2008.pdfReference period

Annual: 1947 to 2021
Quarterly: Q1 1947 to Q3 2021

Date last updated

19 November 2021

Recommended uses and limitations

The main purpose of this dataset is to provide relevant, reliable, consistent, comparable and timely quarterly national accounts for OECD member countries, some non-member countries and some area totals for analytical purposes. All the OECD member countries compile their accounts according to the 2008 SNA, as well as almost all the non-member countries

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