Preparing the National Accounts w/ Robert Ewing, Australian Bureau of Statistics - EP162

The National Accounts is the comprehensive data set on a country’s economic performance. It gives us GDP growth estimates and a whole bunch of other important indicators. Australian Bureau of Statistics Principal Advisor Robert Ewing takes us behind the scenes at the ABS and provides some great info and insights into how the GDP figures are prepared. Learn about the huge range of economic data from households, businesses, and governments that go into the National Accounts, the roles played by algorithms and judgment, and how the numbers are crunched using the time series database FAME, short for Forecasting Analysis and Modeling Environment. 

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Robert Ewing’s LinkedIn profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjewing/

Economics Explored EP153 which also considered the National Accounts:

https://economicsexplored.com/2022/08/23/gdp-the-national-accounts-what-they-are-and-why-they-matter-w-brendan-markey-towler-ep153/

Thanks to Josh Crotts for mixing the episode and to the show’s sponsor, Gene’s consultancy business www.adepteconomics.com.au. 

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