Germany - Change in Inventories

For Germany, from the quarterly national accounts, the expenditure approach (use of GDP) with GFCF detail; as reported by the national statistics institute (viz., FSO).

Active:

• National accounts framework: ESA 2010
• Measurements:
  • Billons of euros at chained year-2015 prices (Bil. Ch. 2015 EUR)
  • At current prices (Bil. EUR)
  • Fixed-base chained volume index relative to 2015 (Ch. Vol. Index 2015=100)
• Adjustments:
  • Calendar day adjusted and seasonally adjusted (CDASA)
  • Calendar day adjusted and seasonally adjusted using BV4.1 software (CDASA BV4.1)
  • Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Quarterly
• Start dates:
  
  • 1991Q1
  • 1992Q1

Predecessors:

• At 2010 prices

Global concept aliases:

• GDP, GDP$
• C, C$
• G, G$
• I, I$
• CIVT, CIVT$
• EX, EX$
• IM, IM$
• NETEX

Unknown.

This dataset contains information regarding the national accounts expenditure approach in three forms:

• unadjusted
• seasonally and calendar day adjusted using X-13-ARIMA (developed by the United States Census Bureau) JDemetra+
• seasonally and calendar day adjusted using BV4.1, developed by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, FSO)

A distinction is made between current revisions and major revisions that take place at larger intervals. In the current revisions, the quarters of up to four preceding years are revised once a year basically in connection with the calculation of the second quarter of a year. A revision of the four preceding quarters may be made for the calculations of the first quarter of a year. As the time calculations are made for the third and fourth quarter of a year, changes may result for the preceding quarters of the same year, but not for the previous year.

The major revisions of the entire time series with annual and quarterly data usually take place every five years and involve changes of concepts and classifications.

The FSO states that this dataset covers the "private households" sector. However, this data matches the EUROSTAT "households and NPISHs" sector data. It appears that the FSO combines NPISHs with private household data in this dataset. This is a common practice for other sources that report national accounts by institutional sector.

Further reading

At IMF (SDDS Plus):

• National accounts (Jan 2024)

• Feb 2018 - Initial version.
• Feb 2018 - Addendum of detail.
• May 2018 - Addendum of SA supplement for GFCF.
• Sep 2019 - Currency reference year advanced to 2015.
• 2 Aug 2024, Phillip Thorne - Addendum of household expenditure detail: Description, Properties, Further reading.