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MNA - National accounts, Main aggregates (Eurostat ESA2010 TP, table 1)



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	Contact person			Statistical Information Request form, European Central Bank
	Address			PO Box 16 03 19 Frankfurt am Main Germany, D-60066

Data
	Dataset description			Gross domestic product (GDP) and its components, value added by economic activity and employment statistics are part of the ESA 2010 annual and quarterly national accounts produced by the European Commission (Eurostat) and national statistical authorities. Euro area results are estimated using information for the individual countries. GDP is the value of an economy’s total output of goods and services less intermediate consumption, plus net taxes on products and imports. GDP can be broken down by output, expenditure or income components. The main expenditure aggregates that make up GDP are household final consumption, government final consumption, gross fixed capital formation, changes in inventories, and imports and exports of goods and services (including intra-euro area trade). Employment covers employees and the self-employed working in resident production units. Employment data are measured in number of persons in employment and total hours worked; other possible measures for employment are number of jobs and full-time equivalents. These data were formerly available as part of the MNA (National Accounts Main Aggregates) data set. As of 17th of July they are moved to a new data set – ENA. While the first dimension of the series keys change to ENA, the remainder of the series keys remain unchanged. The GDP deflators and unit labour costs and its components (compensation per employee and labour productivity) are calculated by the ECB based on the ESA 2010 national accounts data. The GDP deflators are the ratios of the series in current prices and volume series, where the current price series for the countries are adjusted for national exchange rate movements before joining the euro area. Labour productivity reflects the output that can be produced with a given input of labour. It can be measured in several ways, but is commonly measured as GDP divided by either total employment (by people in employment, i.e. including both employees and self-employed) or total hours worked. The headline ECB measure calculates labour productivity as GDP divided by persons in employment. Compensation per employee is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, that is payable by employers to employees in return for work, i.e. gross wages and salaries, as well as bonuses, overtime payments and employers’ social security contributions, divided by the total number of employees. Unit labour costs are a measure of total labour costs per unit of output calculated as the ratio of compensation per employee to labour productivity (defined as GDP per person employed).
	Source agency			European Commission (Eurostat) and European Central Bank calculations based on Eurostat data
	Periodicity			Quarterly, annual
	Catalog			Download the series catalogue (complete list of series) of the dataset MNA (Public) (including the metadata): Excel 2013 or the earlier Excel versions.

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National accounts, Main aggregates (Eurostat ESA2010 TP, table 1)
MNA: MNA.Q.Y.I8.W2.S1.S1.B.B1GQ._Z._Z._Z.EUR.LR.GY