Recent Improvements to the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database in Response to Analytical Needs / Mike Seiferling.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Seiferling, Mike.

Contributor:

International Monetary Fund. Statistics Department.

Series:

IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/015

IMF Working Papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance, Public--Statistics.

Finance, Public.

International Monetary Fund.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (21 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The demand for high quality detailed public finance statistics covering a globally representative sample of countries has increased dramatically during the recent financial crisis. Due to the complexity of public finance statistics, however, such data tend to be either available in oversimplified high level aggregates and lacking in methodological transparency, or, available with a great level of detail and a unified methodological approach yet overly complicated to understand. The IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Yearbook (GFSY) withdata over an almost 40 year period for almost 140 countries is a valuable database but with a complex structure requiring some specialty knowledge that most data users do not have. The IMF's Statistics Department embarked on several initiatives to improve its accessibility. The purpose of this paper is to provide a non-technical overview of the methodology and advantages of the GFSY database and discussion of how the database is improving to better meet the needs of the user community.

Contents:

Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database: An Overview; Figures; 1. The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database: An Overview; A. Detailed Public Finance Data in a Systematic Accounting Framework; B. Decomposition of Government into Institutional Units and Consolidation; 2. The Institutional Structure of Government; III. Recent Initiatives to Address User Concerns; A. Long Term Fiscal Trends; 3. The Expanded GFSY Database: Total Expenditure and Primary Balances

B. Within-Country Data Comparability: Accrual vs. Cash, and Monetary Unions4. The Switch from Cash to Accrual Accounting; C. Filling Data Gaps; D. Research Projects, Communication and Collaboration with Users; Disaggregated data on government revenue (1972-2010); Harmonizing IMF and other Related International Data Series; IV. Metadata; 5. Central Government Revenue Compositions (as a percentage of GDP); V. Accessing Government Finance Statistics in the IMF eLibrary; VI. Summary and Conclusion; Appendixes; 1. GFSY Detailed Revenue Statistics Data Availability 1972-2009*

2. Above- and Below-the-Line in Government Finance StatisticsReferences

Notes:

"Statistics Department."

"January 2013."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781475571813

147557181X

9781475580716

1475580711

9781299264762

129926476X

9781475557954

1475557957

OCLC:

825078557