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The SDMX Ownership Group convened in Washington, DC, from September 8-10, 2014, to discuss national accounts, GFS, BOP, and FDI. Key agenda items included the membership and mandate of the Ownership Group, status updates on SDMX implementation projects, and future maintenance agreements. The meeting emphasized collaboration among major organizations such as ECB, IMF, OECD, and Eurostat. Next steps include implementing ESA 2010 in Europe and fostering global support for SDMX in national accounts. The meeting also laid out a timeline for the next steps and project updates.
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SDMX Ownership Group for National Accounts (incl. GFS), BOP and FDI Meeting of theAdvisory Expert Group (AEG) on National Accounts September 8-10, 2014, Washington, DC
SDMX Ownership Groupfor NA & GFS, BOP, FDI • Background • OG membership and mandate • Maintenance agreement and timeline • State of play and next steps
Background • 2 SDMX implementation projects • …for National Accounts (SNA2008 / ESA 2010) • …for Balance of Payments (BPM6) and Foreign Direct Investment (BMD4) • 2 project steering groups and 2 technical groups • Running from 20011 until 2013 • Publication of V1.0 DSDs in September 2013 • End of mandate for steering groups
Ownership Group (OG) • Mandatedby SDMX Sponsors in January 2014 • As a single OG for NA & GFS, BOP and FDI • Representationofmanagementfromcontentand SDMX side • Overseesmaintenanceof SDMX artefacts • Mandatedtechnicalgroups • 1 on BOP and FDI; 1 on NA and GFS • Close cooperationwith IAG Task Force international datacooperation (TFIDC)
OG Membership • ECB: TjeerdJellema, Gerard Salou, Henrik Schwartzlose • Eurostat: Silke Stapel-Weber, August Götzfried • IMF: Rene Piche, Ralph Kozlow, FlorianaTanase • OECD: Peter van de Ven, Maria Borga, David Barraclough • UNSD: Herman Smith • Chair: OECD, Secretary: Eurostat • BIS and World Bank asobservers
Maintenance Agreement • Maintenance Agencies (MA) defined: • BOP: IMF • FDI: OECD • NA and GFS: Eurostat • MA will only apply changes agreed upon by OG • Change requests may lead to… • Structural changes: major release (e.g. SNA2025 ) • Annual maintenence release (regular case) • Fast-track maintenance release(only for small changes limited to selected dataflows)(subject to review during next annual release)
Annual Maintenance Timeline • Until April: anybody can request changes • Until June: consolidation of change requests and OG discussion • Until December: consultation with constituencies and implementation planning • December: approval of new version • Until March Y+1: testing and bug-fixing • April Y+1: MA publishes new version
State of Play • V1.1 published in Jan 2014 • V1.2 in April 2014 in SDMX Global Registry • V1.3 fast-track releasefor NA Sector Accounts(to fix a mistake in onecodelist) • V1.4 regularreleasecurrently in preparation • Inclusionof IMF GFSM coding • Support for SNA93 in thecontextof international datacooperation • Support for additional dataflows (e.g. GNI, EDP) • Minor additionstoexistingcodelists • Next OG meeting: November 2014
Next Steps • Implementation of ESA 2010 in Europe • First legal deadlines end-September 2014 • Extensive support of countries during implementation • Fostering SDMX for NA globally • IAG International Data Cooperation pilot projects(Main aggregates and population; Sector Accounts) • Support for SNA93 within the SDMX-NA package
SDMX Ownership Groupfor NA & GFS, BOP, FDI • Background • OG membershipandmandate • Maintenance agreementandtimeline • State ofplayandnextsteps • Thankyouforyourattention