Consistency

1
Consistency

• Anne Harrison
• Editor, SNA Update

2
Consistent with what

• Among new recommendations
• Between new recommendations and unchanged text
• Within unchanged text
• With other manuals (BPM, GFS etc)

3
Market, Non-market

• Government output is provided to the population
  but is not sold there is no market equivalent
  price
• Subsistence agriculture is not provided to anyone
  else, is not sold but there is a market
  equivalent price
• Different sort of non-market.

4
Why does this matter?

• Use of non-market as criterion for determining
  general government boundary
• Identification of informal sector

5
Property income

• Non-life insurance - interest and dividends,
  exclude holding gains and losses
• Pensions - return on liability
• Does source of income matter?

6
Annuities

• Give capital sum to Financial Institution in
  return for a promise of an income for life?
• What assets and liabilities should be shown for
  financial institution and beneficiary?