The treatment of the NGO sector in the national accounts: guidelines, empirical evidence, and some related issues

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Title:	The treatment of the NGO sector in the national accounts: guidelines, empirical evidence, and some related issues
Author:	Heemst, Jan J.P. van
Year:	1991
Issue:	115
Language:	English
Series:	Working papers, General series (ISSN 0921-0210)
City of publisher:	The Hague
Publisher:	Institute of Social Studies
Geographic term:	world
Subjects:	NGO national accounts
External link:	https://hdl.handle.net/1765/18940
Abstract:	The activities of NGOs obviously have economic aspects and dimensions. With this in mind, and against the background of the assumed importance of the NGO sector from a developmental point of view, the author examines the question of how the activities of NGOs can be properly incorporated in integrated economic data systems such as national accounts and to what extent and in what ways this is actually being done. To this end he reviews the main guidelines of both the present, 1968 edition, and the proposed 1993 revised edition of the United Nations System of National Accounts (UN SNA) with regard to the sector of 'private nonprofit institutions serving households', the sector in the present SNA which is closest to the NGO sector. He analyses actual country practices re the treatment of NGO activities in national accounts, as well as presenting data about the actual size of the NGO sector based on information from the national accounts of a sample of developed and developing countries.