UIS CSAEM RecommendationsUIS Culture Satellite Account Experts Meeting

(CSAEM) 4-6th November 2015

Purpose of the CSA

Need to consider why the CSA is being developed

What are we trying to measure?  Target audience: policy makers, statisticians,

academics, culture associations Marketing tool: need to design an excellent

communication toolExplain scope and limitations of CSAExplain how to use the results of the CSA Include minimum requirements before

undertaking CSA Initial step is to develop national cultural

statistics

Lessons learnt from national and regional experience CSA

◦ Need to take into account the different statistical capacity of countries

◦ Country experiences: CSA built from existent SNA with some adjustments (CAN, AUS, FIN)

◦ Latin America CAB: SNA not accurate enough. CAB Methodology developed outside Objective to improve SNA

◦In Africa, SNA not correctly compiled and poor quality

Proposal for the CSA’ scope

◦ Definition culture for CSA: “from an economic operative perspective” purpose

◦ Core 2009 UNESCO FCS cultural domains Excluded

Tourism: cultural tourism are captured in some domains Sports: deserve a separate account or modular approach like CAN

Clear definitions of 2009 FCS Sub domains Define how to deal with transversal domains Challenging domains: valuation issue

Tangible Heritage Intangible Heritage Handicraft Festivals

Require different types of measure As non monetary indicators

Initial Methodology

Need to identify core tables◦ Production/output tables◦ Supply/use◦ Employment

Use of the Trident Approach Volunteer work

◦ Gross Fixed Capital Formation

◦ Imports and exports of cultural goods ◦ Imports and exports of cultural services

Measures

GDP and value added for policy purpose: countries need be compared to each other

However important to go beyond GDP measures to include:◦ Demand side: national cultural expenditure ◦ Non monetary indictors

Cultural practices Identify minimum list of non monetary indicators

Areas of investigation

Demand side

Extended concepts◦Externalities : maybe consider only as

non monetary indicators?Points to consider

◦ Digitalization process: streaming etc., youtube

◦OECD/WTO Trade in value added project◦Foreign Affiliate Statistics

Data sources

SNAAdministrative dataBusiness registersCultural consumption surveyCultural participation surveyHousehold expenditure surveyTaxesTime use surveysOther satellite accountsVisitor surveyNew forms

◦ Electronic transactions◦ Big data : example: The billion prize project

Choice of classificationsType of measures Names of classificationsEconomic ClassificationsProduction:

International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC 4)

Production Central Product Classification Version 2

Trade

Goods: Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS)Services: Extended Balance of Payments (EBOPS)

Employment International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO 08)

Social International Classification of Activities for Time-Use (ICATUS)

Government Classification of the Functions of Government

COICOP Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose

COPNI Classification of the Purposes of Non-profit Institutions

Others?

Classifications

UIS will continue participating in classification revision process to improve culture visibility

COICOP, ICATUS under revisionCPC: soon: meanwhile new guidelines will be

published ISCO ?

Allocation factors

Need to define allocation factors

For which purposes?◦Excluding non cultural element

Building from previous experiences

CAB ManualTSANational experiencesOther Satellite accounts

◦ Non profit institution◦ ?

Other points to be considered ?

Thank you!