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Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables for Ireland

2015

Detailed picture of the structure of the Irish economy in 2015

Percentage type of use of Use table products 2015
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The Supply and Use Tables and Input-Output Tables for 2015 provide a detailed picture of the transactions of goods and services by industries and consumers across the Irish economy in a single year. They highlight the inter-industry flows that lie behind the National Accounts main aggregates. These tables also serve as an integrated framework for all production statistics and are used as a statistical tool to compile and reconcile independent estimates of National Accounts aggregates. The Supply and Use framework shows the components of gross value added (GVA) by industry. The GVA in the Use table measures the contribution to GDP made by each particular industry branch.

In addition to Supply and Use Tables in current prices (Table 1 and Table 2 respectively) exploratory Supply and Use Tables in previous year prices (PYP) are also included in this publication (Table 13 and Table 14 respectively). Supply and Use Tables in PYP allow for the detailed examination of volume changes by sector.

An explanatory note and a visual overview guide to all the tables in this publication are provided in links on the right hand side of this page. Further details on the compilation of these tables are provided in the Background Notes section at the foot of this page.

Tables are initially constructed using 82 industry and 82 product groups and are condensed for confidentiality and quality purposes. A new aggregation has been introduced in these 2015 tables in light of the well publicised 2015 'level shift' in the national accounts. Rather than marking as confidential the affected codes, these have been aggregated into a single code which can then be shown. Other codes previously aggregated have been split. The result is that the published tables remain 58 industry groups by 58 product groups as for previous editions, but with a different structure for 2015. This new table structure is exploratory and will be reviewed in light of developments in the evolving national accounts data. When examining specific table items, users are reminded that these tables are overall estimates.

Summaries for five of the more important tables in this publication are provided below. These are Table 1 (Supply Table at basic prices), Table 2 (Use Table at purchasers' prices), Table 9 (Input-Output Table of domestic product flows at basic prices), Table 13 (Supply Table at previous year prices) and Table 14 (Use Table at previous year prices). All fourteen tables in full are provided below these summaries.

Table 1 - Supply Table at basic prices

This table provides estimates of the supply of goods and services (products) by domestic industries as well as imports of goods and services. The supply of products is presented in the rows while the columns show the industry branches that produce these goods and services. Each industry is classified according to whichever product accounts for the largest part of their output. The principal production, shown on the diagonal elements of the Supply Table, is therefore larger than the secondary production shown on the off-diagonal elements. A summary of the 2015 Supply Table at basic prices is shown below.

Table A Summary of 2015 Supply Table at basic prices €m
 Industries    €m
 Agriculture, forestry & fishingManufacturingConstruction Distribution, transport & communicationBusiness servicesOther servicesTotal DomesticImports c.i.f. (cost, insurance & freight inclusive)MarginsProduct taxes less subsidiesTotal Supply (purchasers' prices)
Products(1-3)(5-39)(41-43)(45-61)(62-82)(84-97)     
Agriculture, forestry & fishing8,456000008,4561,2611,79012611,633
Manufacturing18184,235021900184,47278,44228,40212,152303,469
Construction30017,38800017,418002,34219,760
Distribution, transport & communication1410,767076,0234,994091,79833,440-30,1922,01797,064
Business services05,3341177,660157,524580171,215126,64402,751300,611
Other services1100126047,98948,1264930-51848,100
Output at basic prices8,530200,33717,50584,027162,51848,569521,486240,280018,871780,638

Table 2 - Use Table at purchasers’ prices

This table shows the use of products by domestic industry and by the final demand sectors ("final demand" comprises consumption by households, government, non-profit organisations serving households (NPISH), gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) and exports). As in the Supply Table, industries are shown in the columns and products in the rows. Thus the columns of figures for industries NACE 1 - 97 show the goods and services used by each industry for the purposes of achieving their output. The purchases in these columns relate to intermediate consumption only. The capital purchases are shown separately but a breakdown by industry is not provided. The purchases of households in their private (non-business) capacity as consumers are included under household consumption with the exception of the purchase of dwellings, which is included with gross fixed capital formation. A summary of the 2015 Use Table at purchasers' prices is shown below.

Table B Summary of 2015 Use Table at purchasers' prices €m
 Industries   €m
 Agriculture, forestry & fishingManufacturingConstruction Distribution, transport & communicationBusiness servicesOther servicesTotal inter-industryConsumption and GFCFExports f.o.b. (free on board)Total Uses
Products(1-3)(5-39)(41-43)(45-61)(62-82)(84-97)    
Agriculture, forestry & fishing2,0125,445144531417,6962,2791,65811,633
Manufacturing3,41345,7815,5427,3245,4014,92072,38265,663165,424303,469
Construction608913,2667007118106,43913,322019,760
Distribution, transport & communication1687,4658946,3909,6281,37125,91721,31449,83397,064
Business services39246,7532,22223,62980,1195,445158,56042,62699,424300,611
Other services343421136161,6514,1406,89740,41179248,100
Total Intermediate consumption6,080106,67912,18038,71397,51116,729277,891185,615317,131780,638
          
Compensation of Employees (COE)65511,3102,92817,96719,46825,32277,649   
Gross Operating Surplus (GOS)3,36881,5792,36826,79344,6486,513165,270   
Taxes less subsidies on production-1,573769295548915676   
Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices2,45093,6585,32445,31565,00731,841243,595   
Output at basic prices8,530200,33717,50584,027162,51848,569521,486   

Table 9 - Symmetric Input-Output Table of domestic product flows at basic prices

This table is derived from the preceding tables. The transformation of the Supply and Use Tables to Input-Output Tables is based on the commodity technology assumption (See Handbook of Input-Output Table Compilation and Analysis, United Nations Publication, Sales No. E99XVII.9, New York, 1999). The Input-Output Table of domestic product flows forms the basis of Table 12 which contains the Leontief inverse coefficients of domestic flows which are required by users of Input-Output techniques to assess the implications of changes in demand on the various sectors of the economy. It purports to show the use made of domestically produced products in the manufacture or provision of other products. A summary of the 2015 Input-Output Table for domestic product flows is shown below.

Table C Summary of 2015 Symmetric Input-Output table of domestic product flows €m
 Products   €m
 Agriculture, forestry & fishingManufacturingConstruction Distribution, transport & communicationBusiness servicesOther servicesTotal inter-industryConsumption and GFCFExports f.o.b. (free on board)Total Outputs
Products(1-3)(5-39)(41-43)(45-61)(62-82)(84-97)    
Agriculture, forestry & fishing1,5753,90697403305,6521,1931,6118,456
Manufacturing8747,4821,8682,0731,2431,11614,6555,726164,091184,472
Construction529443,1966263817295,93011,489017,419
Distribution, transport & communication2123,4664034,6143,2351,14213,07227,51451,21291,798
Business services1993,0051,2818,48527,3923,41443,77728,01599,424171,215
Other services412561165851,7244,1246,84640,48879248,126
Total Intermediate consumption2,95319,0596,96216,42433,97910,55689,931114,424317,131521,486
Imports2,90981,5524,96121,32866,4205,249182,41857,8620240,280
Product taxes less subsidies1766462511,3902,2208595,54213,329018,871
Total at purchasers' prices6,038101,25712,17339,141102,61816,663277,891185,615317,131780,638
COE63810,4312,92918,07720,33725,23877,649   
GOS3,35372,0352,28833,98447,4296,181165,270   
Other taxes less subsidies-1,5737492859783143676   
Value added2,41883,2155,24552,65768,59731,462243,595
Total inputs (= total outputs)8,456184,47217,41991,798171,21548,126521,486

Table 13 - Supply Table at previous year prices

and

Table 14 - Use Table at previous year prices

These pair of exploratory tables are derived from the preceding Supply Table and Use Table valued in current prices. These deflated tables use the double deflation approach, which is the internationally preferred and recommended approach. The concept of value added is defined as output minus intermediate consumption. Consequently value added at previous year prices is best measured by separately deflating the output and the intermediate consumption and deriving the residual. The value added so deflated to previous year prices can be compared with the value added of the previous year in its current prices to determine the “volume” growth. Double deflation takes account of changing levels of intermediate consumption required to produce the output and the relationship of both to value added. The levels of intermediate consumption may change for a variety of reasons. For example improved production methods may be employed. Better fuel efficiency may be achieved. Increased levels of marketing and advertising may be required. Advances in scientific knowledge may allow much improved output, particularly in the high technology sectors, without proportional increases in inputs since the inputs include regular, stable items such as accountancy fees, rent, heat, light, etc. The Supply and Use based estimates take account of both the outputs and the inputs. A summary of the 2015 Supply Table at previous year prices and the 2015 Use Table at previous year prices are shown below.

Table D Summary of 2015 Supply Table at previous year prices €m
 Industries    €m
 Agriculture, forestry & fishingManufacturingConstruction Distribution, transport & communicationBusiness servicesOther servicesTotal DomesticImports c.i.f. (cost, insurance & freight inclusive)MarginsProduct taxes less subsidiesTotal Supply (purchasers' prices)
Products(1-3)(5-39)(41-43)(45-61)(62-82)(84-97)     
Agriculture, forestry & fishing8,622000008,6221,1842,02212511,953
Manufacturing18170,102021100170,33175,20826,60512,520284,663
Construction29016,52200016,551002,19818,748
Distribution, transport & communication1310,417073,0234,857088,31132,786-28,6261,93894,408
Business services05,2111157,501153,390541166,757124,11302,669293,539
Other services1100128047,67447,8124850-52347,774
Output at basic prices8,693185,73016,63680,863158,24748,214498,383233,776018,927751,086
Table E Summary of 2015 Use Table at previous year prices €m
 Industries   €m
 Agriculture, forestry & fishingManufacturingConstruction Distribution, transport & communicationBusiness servicesOther servicesTotal inter-industryConsumption and GFCFExports f.o.b. (free on board)Total Uses
Products(1-3)(5-39)(41-43)(45-61)(62-82)(84-97)    
Agriculture, forestry & fishing2,0705,627142541437,9372,3471,66911,953
Manufacturing3,49443,8345,2437,6085,1614,57969,91966,206148,539284,663
Construction578513,1186686797746,14712,601018,748
Distribution, transport & communication1617,3858756,2879,5211,33625,56420,98347,86194,408
Business services38946,0092,20523,36879,2355,372156,57940,90396,058293,539
Other services343381126111,6344,0916,81940,18776847,774
Total Intermediate consumption6,205104,04511,69538,59796,23016,193272,965183,226294,895751,086
Gross Value Added (GVA) at PYP2,48881,6854,94242,26562,01732,021225,418
Output at basic prices8,693185,73016,63680,863158,24748,214498,383

Table 1 is the Supply Table at basic prices €m:

Table 1 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 34KB)

Table 2 is the Use Table at purchasers' prices €m:

Table 2 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 73KB)

Table 3 is the Use Table at basic prices €m:

Table 3 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 91KB)

Table 4 is the Use Table for domestic inputs at basic prices €m:

Table 4 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 92KB)

Table 5 is the Use Table for Imports €m:

Table 5 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 76KB)

Table 6 is the Use Table for Trade margins €m:

Table 6 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 61KB)

Table 7 is the Use Table for Taxes less Subsidies €m:

Table 7 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 83KB)

Table 8 is the Symmetric Input-Output Table of total product flows at basic prices €m:

Table 8 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 69KB)

Table 9 is the Symmetric Input-Output Table of domestic product flows at basic prices €m:

Table 9 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 68KB)

Table 10 is the Input-Output Table of imported product flows €m:

Table 10 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 62KB)

Table 11 are the Coefficients of domestic product flows:

Table 11 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 68KB)

Table 12 is the Leontief inverse of domestic product flows with multipliers for other inputs:

Table 12 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 70KB)

Table 13 is the Supply Table at previous year prices €m:

Table 13 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 35KB)

Table 14 is the Use Table at previous year prices €m:

Table 14 Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 (XLS 69KB)

Background Notes

1. Background to the Tables

The main aggregates in the Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables (for example value added, final consumption, imports and exports) are consistent with the current price estimates shown in the National Income and Expenditure 2017 (NIE17) published in July 2018 based on the revised European System of Accounts methodology (ESA 2010). However, the starting point of the tables is the CSO business surveys (e.g. Census of Industrial Production, the Prodcom Inquiry and Annual Services Inquiry). Considerable use is also made of published reports of government departments, semi-state bodies and financial institutions. Producing Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables thus requires the examination of consistency and coherency of data and aggregates from national accounts, external trade statistics, balance of international payments results and data provided by the business surveys.

In general, data on purchases is more difficult to assemble than data on turnover. The manufacturing inputs in this 2015 publication however have been assembled with reference to data gathered by the Census of Industrial Production (CIP) Inputs Survey. This is a five-yearly survey of manufacturing industry which was conducted as an integral part of the 2005, 2010 and 2015 CIP. Annual CIP data is also used to disaggregate purchase totals. In the case of non-manufacturing industry, estimates were made based on data from the Annual Services Inquiry and on other limited information. A degree of balancing is necessary in the construction of any Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables to fit the national accounts data with data from other surveys. Consequently allowances must be made for a lack of absolute accuracy in the figures in this report. They are overall estimates and not absolute definitive data.

The Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables display details of the economy in terms of 58 industry groups and 58 product groups. The starting point of the sectoral classification used is the two-digit level of the NACE Rev. 2 referred to as the A64 coding of industry activities. The product classification used is the sixty four product grouping referred to as the P64. The tables are initially constructed using 82 industry and 82 product groups and are then condensed for confidentiality and quality purposes. A new aggregation has been introduced in these 2015 tables in light of the well publicised 2015 'level shift' in the national accounts. Rather than marking as confidential the affected codes, these have been aggregated into a single code (NACE 19, 21, 26, 28, 31-32) which can then be shown. Other codes previously aggregated have been split, for example NACE 55 and NACE 56 are now separate. The result is that the published tables remain 58 industry groups by 58 product groups as for previous editions, but with a different structure for 2015. This new table structure is exploratory and will be reviewed in light of developments in the evolving national accounts data. Again it is stressed that these are overall estimates, which should be borne in mind by our users when examining specific elements of the tables in this publication.

The basis of the methodology used is described in the Eurostat Manual of Supply, Use and Input-Output Tables (see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3859598/5902113/KS-RA-07-013-EN.PDF/b0b3d71e-3930-4442-94be-70b36cea9b39?version=1.0) and in the UN Handbook of Input-Output Table Compilation and analysis (see http://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/SeriesF/SeriesF_74E.pdf).

 2. Overview of the Tables

Table 1 - 2015 Supply Table at basic prices (product by industry)

(See above for summary text and table)

This table provides estimates of the supply of goods and services (products) by domestic industries as well as imports of goods and services. The supply of products is presented in the rows while the columns show the industry branches that produce these goods and services. Each industry is classified according to whichever product accounts for the largest part of their output. The principal production, shown on the diagonal elements of the Supply table, is therefore larger than the secondary production shown on the off-diagonal elements. A summary of the 2015 Supply Table is shown above.

Treatment of the motor trade, retail and wholesale

The outputs of the distribution sector are defined in a special way for national accounts purposes and may not be as expected. The motor trade, retail and wholesale activities are regarded as producing a service which is measured as the price at which their products are sold minus the purchase price of these products (which they purchased for direct resale). This is referred to as the gross margin. Thus the retail supermarket is not regarded as providing food or drink nor is the drapery outlet regarded as providing clothes. In the Supply and Use framework, the food and clothes are the products of their respective industries or are imported and retailers are regarded as providing a sales service (see the distribution rows 45 – 47 of the Supply Table).

The gross margin is also used to measure the output of distribution activity by firms that are mainly involved in another activity such as manufacturing.

Valuation

The values of the domestically produced products in the Supply Table are shown initially at basic prices while they are transformed to purchasers’ prices in the final columns. The basic price is the price receivable by the producer for a unit of a good or service produced, minus any tax payable as a consequence of its production or sale (i.e. taxes on products), plus any subsidy receivable on that unit as a consequence of its production or sale (i.e. subsidies on products). Thus the basic price excludes the well-known product taxes such as VAT, excise duties, import duties, etc. In theory, the basic price excludes any transport charges invoiced separately by the producer but includes any transport charges charged on the same invoice. It does not include any trade margin earned by reselling the product by another trader following manufacture or importation. The basic price measures the amount retained by the producer and is therefore the price most relevant for the producer’s decision making.

The purchaser’s price is the price the purchaser actually pays for the product including any taxes less subsidies on the product (but excluding deductible taxes). The conversion from basic prices to purchasers’ prices involves distributing the trade margins of retailers and wholesalers among the products on which they are charged. The mechanism for doing this can be seen in the "trade margins" column of the Supply Table. Here the margin in the motor trade and domestic wholesale and retail trades appears as negative values in rows 45 to 47 as these margins are distributed in the same column among the products on which they fall.

Imports in the Supply Table are shown by detailed product at c.i.f. (cost, insurance and freight inclusive) prices as in the published merchandise trade statistics. Imports are shown at f.o.b. (free on board) prices in the NIE. Cost, insurance and freight (c.i.f.) requires the seller to arrange for the carriage of goods by sea to a port of destination, and provide the buyer with the documents necessary to obtain the goods from the carrier. Free on board (f.o.b.) on the other hand requires the seller to deliver goods on board a vessel designated by the buyer. The seller fulfils their obligations to deliver when the goods have passed over the ship's rail. The difference between the two valuations is shown as an adjustment in the imports column of the Supply Table to move from a c.i.f. to a f.o.b. valuation. The adjusted imports total is consistent with the imports figure from the NIE. Given that the supply of a product must, by necessity, equal total use of a product, a similar adjustment is included for exports on the Use Table. As with imports, the adjusted exports total is consistent with the exports figure from the NIE.

Table 2 - 2015 Use Table at purchasers' prices (product by industry)

(See above for summary text and table)

This table shows the use of products by domestic industry and by the final demand sectors ("final demand" comprises consumption by households, government, non-profit organisations serving households (NPISH), capital formation (GFCF) and exports). As in the previous table, industries are shown in the columns and products in the rows. Thus the columns of figures for industries NACE 1 - 97 show the goods and services used by each industry for the purposes of achieving their output. The purchases in these columns relate to intermediate consumption only. The capital purchases are shown separately but a breakdown by industry is not provided. All the purchases of households in their private (non-business) capacity as consumers are included under household consumption with the exception of the purchase of dwellings, which is included with gross fixed capital formation. The purchases include domestically produced and imported products indistinguishably.

Additional information for each industry is shown at the end of the industry columns, where estimates of the components of the gross value added by each industry are supplied. These are in the form of compensation of employees (COE), non-product (i.e. overhead) taxes (e.g. rates) and non-product subsidies (e.g. employment subsidies), net operating surplus (or profits) and consumption of capital (this term encompasses depreciation and amortisation). The latter two items, when combined, are referred to as gross operating surplus (GOS). The sum of these rows is referred to as the gross value added of the industry and is equal to the output of the industry minus its intermediate consumption costs. A summary of the 2015 Use Table at purchasers' prices is shown above.

Valuation

The purchases of the products in the Use Table are valued at purchasers’ prices, which have already been explained in the note on the Supply Table above. There is no distinction in this table between imported and home produced products. The gross value added of the industries shown in the second last row, being equal to the output of the industries valued at basic prices minus their intermediate consumption at purchasers’ prices is regarded as being valued at basic prices.

Balancing the Supply Table with the Use Table

The total supply of each product in the last column of the Supply Table is equal to the total use of the product in the last column of the Use Table. Similarly, the total output of each industry in the last row of the Supply Table is equal to the sum of the intermediate consumption and value added of that industry, which is the last row of the Use Table.

Table 9 - Symmetric Input-Output Table for domestic output at basic prices

(See above for summary text and table)

This table is derived from the preceding Supply and Use Tables and the Intermediate Tables. The transformation of the Supply and Use Tables to Input-Output Tables is based on the commodity technology assumption (See Handbook of Input-Output Table Compilation and Analysis, United Nations Publication, Sales No. E99XVII.9, New York, 1999).

The domestic Input-Output Table forms the basis of Table 12 which contains the Leontief inverse coefficients of domestic flows which are required by users of Input-Output techniques to assess the implications of changes in demand on the various sectors of the economy. It purports to show the use made of domestically produced products in the manufacture or provision of other products. A summary of the 2015 Input-Output Table for domestic inputs is shown above.

The structure of the Input-Output Table (I-O Table) is similar to the structure of the Use Table but differs in the following ways: 

  • The I-O Table is product-by-product and thus shows the use of products in the production of other products.
  • Purchases are valued at basic prices. (The basic price is the price received by the producer for a good or service produced minus any tax payable as a consequence of its production plus any subsidy received as a consequence of its production. It excludes any trade margin. It is therefore the price retained by the producer.)
  • The I-O Table in Table 9 is a domestic Input-Output Table and thus shows the use made of domestically produced products in the production of other products. Information on the imports of goods and services for further production and for final consumption is provided in the imports row followed by a row of product taxes less subsidies. Adding the product taxes less subsidies to the values at basic prices converts the intermediate consumption to purchasers’ prices.

The I-O Table is symmetric. The sum of the entries in any row is equal to the sum of the entries in the corresponding column. This is because total output of a product, shown at the end of a row, can be analysed into various costs going into its production, shown down the column. These column sums and row sums are equal to the total domestic supply of Table 1.

Table 12 – The Leontief inverse of domestic flows with multipliers for other inputs

If there is an increase in final demand for a particular product, we can assume that there will be an increase in the output of that product but also an increase in demand for other products (i.e. the intermediate consumption needed for the production of that product) and so on down the supply chain. Table 12 attempts to measure the complete direct and indirect impacts on the economy resulting from the increase in demand for domestic output of a given product. The Leontief inverse is derived from the Input-Output Table.

The upper portion of Table 12 can be interpreted as follows, using products of agriculture, forestry and fishing as an example.

Each €1 of final demand for domestic output of products of agriculture, forestry and fishing requires:

€1.239 output of domestically produced agriculture, forestry and fishing;

€0.007 output of domestically produced mining and quarrying products;

€0.049 output of domestically produced food, beverage and tobacco products; etc.

The column sums shown in the row after product 97 are called output multipliers. These show how much direct and indirect output is required, across all domestic products per €1 final demand for the products named at the top of the column. But considerable duplication of output is included in this approach. For example, if an increase in the final demand of product A by €1, requires an increase of 90% of this amount of output of product B, then output of both products has been increased by €1.90. Gross outputs rather than net value added of products are combined in this table to give the column aggregates thereby giving rise to duplication of output. The duplication arises because product B is an ingredient in product A and its cost is absorbed in the final value of A, rather than added to the final value of A.

The lower portion of Table 12 shows the direct plus indirect effect on other inputs per €1 final demand. In each column the sum of the coefficients of imports, taxes less subsidies, compensation of employees, consumption of fixed capital and net operating surplus add to 1. They show, after all the cycles of production are completed, how the additional unit of final demand was spread over these categories. There is no duplication in these coefficients.

Within the 58 product groups, six have import multipliers of value 0.15 or less and all of these come from the services sector. This implies that for €1 extra demand of home produced products from these product groups, less than 15% is spent indirectly on imports. The remainder, more than 85% of the €1, remains within the economy. The product groups with the lowest import multipliers include:

0.109 for Recreation and sports activities (NACE 93)

0.077 for Legal and accounting services (NACE 69)

0.027 for Cultural, arts and gambling services (NACE 90-92)

0.132 for Education services (NACE 85)

Conversely, the highest import multipliers include the following:

0.845 for Head office and management consultancy (NACE 70)

0.835 for Computer consultancy, data processing (NACE 62-63)

0.589 for Manufacture of Pulp and paper products (NACE 17)

0.585 for Manufacture of Electrical equipment (NACE 27)

0.575 for Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding (NACE 65)

Of an extra €1 demand for these products, there is an import content of at least 50%.  One may observe that several codes with higher import multipliers are for products of manufacturing industries or industries often dominated in Ireland by large multinational enterprises.

The domestic constituents of final demand are compensation of employees; net operating surplus; consumption of fixed capital; and taxes less subsidies. Coefficients for each are found in the last rows of the Leontief table.

These multipliers may be used for comparisons between branches. But care should be taken in their interpretation. For example, they take no account of outflows of profits and dividends from each branch and are thus related more to gross domestic product than to gross national product. They describe the effects of marginal increases in final demand and cannot strictly be applied to large changes. They do, however, recognise the interdependence of the various sectors of the economy and for this reason can be a useful tool in the area of impact analysis.

Table 13 - Supply Table at previous year prices

and

Table 14 – Use Table at previous year prices

(See above for summary text and tables)

The above pair of tables extend the series of exploratory Supply and Use Tables (S&UT) in previous year prices (PYP) which were initiated in 2011 and first published in October 2012. The October 2012 publication contained Supply and Use Tables for 2006 and 2007 in PYP. Further tables in the series relating to 2008 and 2009 were published in June 2013. The 2012 PYP tables were published simultaneously with the current price tables in 2015 for the first time. The 2013 PYP tables and the 2014 PYP tables were published simultaneously with the current price 2013 and 2014 tables in 2016 and 2017 respectively. These tables relate to 2015. As for the current price S&UT, PYP Tables are compiled, balanced and deflated for 82 business sectors and published at a more aggregated level of 58 business sectors for confidentiality and reliability purposes.

The double deflation methodology employed in compiling these tables is similar to that described in the October 2012, June 2013, December 2015, November 2016 and October 2017 publications. The 2015 S&UT in current prices were deflated by the most appropriate price indices available to obtain the PYP versions of the tables. A summary table of the deflators employed to produce the PYP tables by NACE are provided below in Background Notes Table A along with a list of abbreviations and acronyms.

Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 Background Notes Table A (PDF 454KB)

One of the benefits of S&UT in previous year prices is that they facilitate the compilation of “real” or volume changes from year to year in the value added generated by detailed business sectors. In order for this to be done accurately it is necessary to have Gross Value Added (GVA) in current prices for the previous year for the detailed business sectors to which the data in PYP relates. It is furthermore necessary that both sets of data are comparable. National accounts data are regularly revised. If one set of data incorporates revisions that equally apply to the other but have not yet been incorporated in them then any comparisons can be affected by the methodological differences in the two sets of data. The National Accounts data published in the annual compendium of tables “National Income and Expenditure” (NIE) do not contain Gross Value Added (GVA) in current prices for 58 business groups against which the data in PYP can be compared to derive volume changes. The most detailed table available relates to 37 business groups and is contained in Table 21 (current prices) and Table 22 (constant prices) of the NIE. Volume changes derived alternatively by comparing GVA in current prices from the published 2014 S&UT (based on 2014 data in NIE2016 published in 2017) with GVA in PYP from the 2015 S&UT in PYP (based on 2015 data in NIE2017 published in 2018) will also be affected by different data vintages.

Values of the main National Accounts aggregates (e.g. GDP, PCE, Capital Formation, etc.) can be compared in PYP terms with their counterparts in current terms from the current price Supply and Use Tables. These are consistent with the NIE publication with which they were aligned when compiling the Supply and Use Tables (NIE 2017 published in July 2018 in the case of the 2015 S&UT). The Supply and Use Tables in previous year prices were mechanically balanced and adjusted to ensure aggregate and sub-aggregate consistency with the published national accounts. The required intervention at an aggregate level was generally small. The tables in this publication are balanced so that total deflated Supply equals total deflated Use for each product group. The degree of “automatic” balancing which was required to remove the residual imbalances remaining at the end of the deflation process was small, with total deflated Supply and total deflated Use differing by 0.24%. The Supply and Use Tables in previous year prices shown above are experimental and will continue to be compiled annually as part of the European Union Program of Statistics to which member states subscribe.

In the output method gross value added (GVA) equals output minus intermediate consumption. Using double deflation described above, we have separately deflated the outputs (from the Supply Table) and the intermediate inputs (from the Use Table) by product for each industry. Consequently it is possible to arrive at implied price changes by industry for output and intermediate consumption in addition to, by subtraction, GVA. Price changes by industry for output, intermediate consumption and GVA as well as the total implied price change by product are presented below in Background Notes Table B

Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 Background Notes Table B (XLS 18KB)

Note that because GVA in the output method is a residual (output minus intermediate consumption) it can be subject to extreme movements. For example GVA will be affected by the relationship between the size of output and intermediate consumption. Two simple examples are presented below for illustrative purposes.

    Industry 1   Industry 2
    Current €   PYP €  

% Price change

  Current €   PYP €  

% Price change

Output   100   110   -10%   100   110   -10%
Intermediate consumption   90   81   10%   50   45   10%
Gross value added (GVA)   10   29   -290%   50   65   -30%

3. Consistency with other CSO Publications

Reconciliation with the National Accounts

In these current price tables the final demand aggregates and the components of value added are taken from the national accounts which provide control totals. This concordance is with the 2015 estimates as published in National Income and Expenditure 2017 (NIE17). Background Notes Table C below shows the aggregate figures in the 2015 Supply and Use Tables that agree with figures from NIE17.

Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables 2015 Background Notes Table C (XLS 13KB)

The publication of NIE15 in July 2016 attracted much interest and comment given the significant revisions to a number of the aggregates. These were concentrated in the 2015 data. These 2015 S&UT data are consistent with the 2015 data from NIE17 published in July 2018. As described above a new NACE code aggregation structure has been introduced in these 2015 Supply and Use Tables to avoid flagging many cells as confidential or reducing the size of the tables. Further details on the NIE15 revisions and their impacts on the 2015 figures can be found at the following websites:

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/newsevents/documents/pr_GDPexplanatorynote.pdf

http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/newsevents/documents/IrelandEconomicGrowthFigures.pdf

Details of new developments in the national accounts and a range of information notes to assist our users are available at the following website:

https://www.cso.ie/en/methods/nationalaccounts/din/

Comparison with other CSO sources

Although the Supply and Use Tables are consistent with national accounts data published in NIE17 and thereby consistent with the balance of payments data compiled by the CSO, it is not possible to achieve full agreement with all CSO publications. The exercise of compiling Supply and Use tables helps to identify discrepancies that exist within different data sources. It is hoped that some of these discrepancies will be removed or reduced over time.

There are four main reasons for differences that occur between the aggregates presented in the Supply and Use Tables and the aggregates presented in other publications, e.g. the Census of Industrial Production (CIP) and Annual Services Inquiry (ASI). Some examples of these are set out below.

Terminology

For the most part, the underlying definitions are consistent throughout CSO publications, but certain differences do arise. For example, the output in the Supply Table is inclusive of freight and of the margin gained on goods resold without further processing. These two items are not part of the term ‘gross output’ in Table 1 of the CIP. Also the term ‘compensation of employees’ in national accounts includes the employer’s contribution to social insurance and other labour costs, which are not included in the wages and salaries variable in CIP and ASI.

Accounting practices

Some international sales by Irish companies are included in the CIP gross turnover but are treated on a net basis (i.e. sales less purchases) in the balance of payments. This can arise particularly where Irish companies sell products abroad which they have also purchased abroad. The products purchased may never have come into Ireland or undergone any further processing following purchase by the Irish enterprise.  Supply and Use adjusts the CIP data and includes the net amount as an export of a service. Conversely, there are companies manufacturing on a fee basis whose transactions may be recorded gross in the international trade statistics. This can arise where companies process goods for another company in their enterprise group abroad. The goods are imported and exported and may therefore have been included in the merchandise trade statistics although ownership of the goods did not change in the process. Generally in these cases the merchandise trade is adjusted to convert the goods imported and exported to a fee based service for use in the balance of payments and national accounts. In the case of telecommunications, some of the turnover in the ASI arises from importing and exporting telecommunications services, whereas balance of payments uses a net treatment. The Supply and Use Tables adopt the balance of payments practice in these situations.

Classifications

Output by product may be classified differently in the Prodcom Inquiry to the export statistics. This difficulty is corrected by realigning at a product level the production with the exports or vice versa. Sometimes the classifications in the two systems are quite unrelated. For example, what appears in one classification as a chemical may be classified as food and beverages in another system.

Conflicts in classification also occur at the overall activity level of companies. The company’s NACE code in the national accounts and balance of payments may differ from the NACE code used by CIP or ASI. Usually the classification used in the CIP or ASI is adopted in the Supply and Use tables. It can also happen that the mismatch highlights a problem that is resolved by transferring the company within the CIP or ASI.

Conflicting data

The Supply and Use Tables are compiled using data from different sources. It is therefore not surprising that there are occasional instances of contradictory and conflicting information. Some examples are: the value of production by a company, measured in the CIP, may be less than their exports, measured by the international merchandise trade statistics; the value added of a company, measured by national accounts from administrative sources, may not concur with the same variable derived in the CIP or the ASI; compensation of employees calculated in national accounts based on employment figures can conflict with the wages and salaries figures in the CIP and ASI, which are assembled from company data. Reconciliation of these types of problem can result in differences between the variable presented in the Supply and Use Tables and the same variable in the CIP or ASI.

Changes in the publication

The Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables in the current publication are presented using the NACE Rev. 2 sectoral classification. 

In the 2010 tables a change was made to the treatment of NIE item 82(a) Net additions to the breeding stocks. Previously this was included in the changes in inventories figure (NIE item 82), but has been included in GFCF (NIE item 81).

There were three significant changes in treatment in the 2011 tables. These were the exclusion of purchases of goods for direct resale from the output of certain service industries, secondly the use of Balance of Payments (BOP) data to more comprehensively describe the secondary production of certain industries and thirdly the implementation of ESA 2010.

The 2012 tables included significant methodological revisions due to the recording of trade in aircraft on a "transfer of economic ownership" basis. Under the new National Accounts methodology, all trade in aircraft with the rest of the world is recorded as imports and exports of goods – regardless of where the aircraft is registered for aviation purposes. There are offsetting effects as both imports and exports increase but generally the new methodology has a greater effect on aircraft imports with the inclusion of purchases of aircraft by resident operational leasing companies in Ireland’s imports of goods. The net increase to Imports of Goods and Services (item 84 in NIE Table 5) in the National Accounts was offset by an increase in Capital Formation (item 81 in NIE Table 5) and the new methodology had no effect generally on GDP and GNP. However, there was a significant increase to the National Accounts provision for depreciation (item 28 in NIE Table 2) based on the higher capital stock, which resulted in an offsetting change in the level of Net Value Added at Factor Cost (item 13/27 in NIE Tables 1 and 2 respectively) and related aggregates.

These changes were seen most clearly in the Supply and Use Tables for 2012 as an increase in imports of NACE 30 (Other transport equipment) products with an accompanying increase in NACE 30 Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF). Similarly the consumption of fixed capital (CFC) total in the primary inputs figures in the lower rows at the bottom of the inter-industry use table was higher than in previous Supply and Use Tables.

The technical note at the following website below gives more detail on the revised trade in aircraft methodology and explains the impact the revisions have on Trade in Goods, National Accounts and Balance of Payments (http://www.cso.ie/en/surveysandmethodology/balanceofpayments/methodologydocuments/).

In addition, a small number of codes had new entries in 2012 for imports and/or exports. These figures are based on a more detailed split of Balance of Payments data than was previously used for Supply and Use Tables purposes. Given the degree of uncertainty regarding such detailed splits, these data should be treated with some caution. A number of codes also had new entries in 2012 for final consumption expenditure of households based on further disaggregation for Supply and Use Tables purposes of PCE data used in the national accounts. Again such disaggregated estimates should be treated with caution and as indicative only.

In the 2013 tables an explicit cif/fob adjustment for both imports and exports was included for the first time, as explained above. These adjustments have been retained in these 2015 tables.

The 2014 tables included adjustments to imports, exports and PCE for expenditure outside the state and expenditure by non-residents. Direct purchases abroad by residents are regarded as imports while purchases on the domestic territory by non-residents are regarded as exports. As mentioned above the imports and exports totals, including adjustments, in the current price Supply and Use Tables are consistent with the 2015 imports and exports figures in NIE17. 

The 2014 tables also included, for both imports and exports, more detailed product split estimates of goods for processing using detailed National Accounts and Balance of Payments (BoP) data.

The 2014 tables were based in part on the revised CIP and ASI time-series first published by the CSO on the 27th October 2016 and 4th November 2016 respectively. Output by industry from the Supply Table remains, as previously, generally consistent (except for specific methodological reasons) with the production values by 2-digit NACE sector from both the CIP and ASI. The output by industry data in these 2015 tables are consistent with the CIP and ASI data published on September 7th 2017.

Other changes in the publication

The NACE code split as well as the product versus non-product split of Taxes and Subsidies were amended for Supply and Use Table compilation purposes. This is most evident in NACE 1-3 (Agriculture, forestry and fishing) where the estimates provided in the Supply and Use Tables are consistent with the estimates provided in the Output, Input and Income in Agriculture (OIIA) release published by the CSO. 

Similarly, the NACE code split of Gross Operating Surplus (GOS), which is the sum of Net Operating Surplus (NOS) and Consumption of Fixed Capital (CFC) are available in greater detail and are consistent, apart from 'known' methodological reasons, with the estimates contained within the calculations for NIE Table 21 Gross Value Added at current basic prices.

Conventions used

 The following conventions are used throughout the tables of this publication:

               " – "        is used to denote zero

               " 0 "        represents less than €0.5 million but more than zero

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