The German Sport Satellite Account (SSA) is a robust statistical framework for measuring the economic importance of sport. The national SSA refers to the Vilnius Definition of Sport and makes sport-related transaction visible within the National Accounts. It measures the direct economic impact...

Satellite accounts on social protection combine monetary and non-monetary data on social protection interventions. In the EU, the European system of integrated social protection statistics (ESSPROS) has been developed progressively since the late 1970s. Demand for data on social benefit...

This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector and measures productivity growth in health care for the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. We measure the change in medical spending and health outcomes for a comprehensive set of 80 conditions. Medical care has positive...

How much of the economy is focused on protecting, rehabilitating, or managing the environment? To answer this question, we develop a proof-of-concept environmental activity account to quantify the environmental goods and services sector (EGSS) in the United States. Methodologically, we employ a...

In an effort to measure and track marine-dependent economic activities, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed two statistical tools: The Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) and the Marine Economy Satellite Account (MESA). In both efforts, the...

Estimating medical care productivity is a central economic challenge. This paper develops a satellite account for the US health sector that appropriately measures health care productivity and applies that to the elderly population between 1999 and 2012. The central output of the satellite...

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of satellite accounts produced by national statistical organisations. The aim of this paper is to help understand the reasons for this increase and identify the need for further guidance and coordination. The paper presents the role...

This report examines the prospects for setting up such a satellite account for the creative industries , and possible methodologies to do so. The creative industries are defined here as economic activities concerned with the generation and exploitation of knowledge, information and culture. Such...

Article 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union explains that "The Union shall contribute to the promotion of European sporting issues". As a response, in 2006, the European Commission set up the EU Working Group "Sport and Economics" which developed the Vilnius definition for...

Die Studie bietet eine umfassende Branchendefinition der Bildungswirtschaft, in der die Waren und Dienstleistungen erfasst werden, die sowohl direkt als auch indirekt auf den Auf- und Ausbau sowie die Verfestigung von Wissen und Kompetenzen über alle Lebensphasen einer Person zielen. Auf dieser...

Volunteer work constitutes an important input into the activities of non-profit institutions. However, in the core system of national accounts, volunteering falls outside the production boundary even if it leads to the production of services. By doing so, national accounts inevitably...

This paper presents a satellite account in which investment in human capital is considered as a produced product/asset. It is not the education sector but the individual person taking education or training/courses that is the genuine producer of human capital. The former only provides education...

Urban population has been growing consistently worldwide, with large metropolitan areas experiencing expansion phenomena both in terms of population and extension. Naturally, these processes did not occur homogeneously throughout the territories. Through the last decade, population in suburbs...

Urban population has been growing consistently worldwide, with large metropolitan areas experiencing expansion phenomena both in terms of population and extension. Naturally, these processes did not occur homogeneously throughout the territories. Through the last decade, population in suburbs...

The Federal Institute for Sports Science (BISp) commissioned the Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS) to set up a sport satellite accounts (SSA) for the reporting year 2008 according to the international recommendations. Looking on the results of the German SSA for the reference year...

The System of National Accounts, which provides information on important macroeconomic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), household disposable income and final consumption, typically excludes the value of unpaid household activities. Exceptions are made for the production of goods...

This chapter of the new European guidelines on national accounting (ESA 2010) describes and discusses satellite accounts. Satellite accounts elaborate or modify the tables and accounts in the central framework of the national accounts to serve specific data needs. The major characteristics of...

Tourism is an increasingly popular global activity and contributes significantly to the GDP and employment of an economy. However, its contribution to an economy is difficult to quantify as it does not fall in the system of national accounts (SNA) due to the demand-driven nature of activity....

Das Werk stellt die Aktualisierung und Erweiterung des Gesundheitssatellitenkontos (GSK) zu einer Gesundheitswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung (GGR) dar. Die GGR umfasst neben den Berichtsjahren 2006 bis 2009 eine Fortschreibung bzw. Prognose wichtiger Eckwerte der Gesundheitswirtschaft für die...

La práctica del deporte, tanto el de alta competición como el de participación, requiere el consumo de productos y servicios deportivos, hecho que genera producción y ocupación. En este contexto, adquiere un interés especial la cuantificación de la importancia económica del sector del...

Abstract: Mit Hilfe eines sogenannten Satellitenkontos soll der Beitrag der Gesundheitswirtschaft zur Wertschöpfung und Beschäftigung eines Landes regelmäßig und regelhaft aufgezeigt werden. Die Berechnungen zeigen erstmalig für Deutschland den Wachstumsbeitrag und den Beschäftigtenanteil...