1.1 | Brief Description of the National Income Statistical Databank |
This databank consists of two parts, with bank names NIAQ and NIAA:
| NIAQ: | National Income Accounts -- Quarterly, 130 time series.
| | NIAA: | National Income Accounts -- Annual, 900 time series.
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Data published in: (a) Quarterly National Income Statistics in Taiwan Area of the Republic of China, Chapter 1 Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and Chapter 4 Table 1. (b) National Income in Taiwan Area of the Republic of China, Chapter 3 Section 1 Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Chapter 3 Section 2 Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20; and Chapter 3 Section 3 Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Data released by: Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting & Statistics (DGBAS).
Data updated quarterly: in February, May, August and November, immediately after the data compiled by DGBAS.
In Chapters 2 and 4, we will list all retrieval codes of NIAQ and NIAA according to the Table order in their respective publications. In Chapters 3 and 5, the same retrieval codes are listed alphabetically.
We hope you may easily find the retrieval codes for the data you need in Chapters 2-5. However, it might be helpful if you are familiar with how we construct these retrieval codes. Generally speaking, we follow the following principles:
(1) We use well-known English abbreviations for the major concepts in the National Income Accounts. For example:
| GNP | -- Gross National Product
| | C | -- Consumption
| | IFIX | -- Gross Fixed Capital Formation
| | INVCH | -- Inventory Changes
| | EX | -- Exports
| | M | -- Imports
| | GDP | -- Gross Domestic Product
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(2) Following the "major concepts", we often append with some "modifiers" for further division. For example:
| CP -- | Private Consumption
| | CG -- | Government Consumption
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Private Consumption (CP) can be subdivided as:
| CPFOOD | -- Food
| | CPBEV | -- Beverages
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Government Consumption (CG) can also be subdivided:
| CGGENF | -- General Public Services
| | CGDEF | -- Defence Affairs & Services
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can be divided by industry:
| GDPFOOD | -- Food
| | GDPBEV | -- Beverages
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(3) Beginning letter "P" stands for Implicit Price Deflator. For example:
| PGNP | -- Implicit Price Deflator - Gross National Product
| | PCP | -- Implicit Price Deflator - Private Consumption Expenditure
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(4) Ending Arabic number "96" stands for "in terms of 1996 NT dollars (i.e. in real terms)". For example, GDP96 is "real GDP in 1996 NT$".
