This publication is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example, new administrative data sources.
National Accounts provide a coherent and detailed picture of a country’s whole economy using international statistical standards. For this publication we have brought together the work done in these publications and narrowed the focus from the whole economy to provide insights into the Energy sector.
This Energy Value Chain (EVC) analysis describes the sector in detail drawing on many CSO outputs, mainly National Accounts, and external data sources. These include:
All data taken from the Annual National Income and Expenditure Accounts uses the 2022 vintage (with reference year 2021). We also use statistics from other agencies to provide a detailed economic portrait of the Energy sector in Ireland:
The Foreign/Domestic split of companies and employment in the publication is facilitated primarily through the use of the CSO Central Business Register (CBR).
The wide range of independent sources used in this publication has allowed a detailed analysis of the energy sector. A coherent analysis from so many different sources has required adjustments to be made to bring the data together into a consistent account. This is a Frontier Publication and the evaluation of sources and methods is subject to review and improvement.
This publication groups firms by activity (also referred to as industry) using the EU’s Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE) Rev. 2 grouping. For clarity and confidentiality, we have used four subsectors: Mining & Quarrying; Manufacture of Coke & Refined Petroleum Products; Electricity, Gas & Steam; and Wholesale & Retail Trade.
Some of the statistics in this publication are for these entire sectors. Where possible and appropriate, statistics are more precisely for the sub-sectors that relate directly to energy. For example, levels of education are shown for the Mining & Quarrying sector as a whole, while the Value Added is for just the four sub-sectors of Mining & Quarrying that relate to coal, petroleum, gas and peat.
The economic activities within each subsector are outlined below:
Products are grouped using the EU’s Statistical Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) Rev. 2.1 grouping. In the Producers chapter, Energy products have been grouped into four main areas. These are the CPA codes in their four categories. Note that products may be services or goods.
Output is estimated at basic prices (i.e., not including the value of product taxes, product subsidies and trade margins that are levied on products). The product classifications in this publication are matched to CPA codes at the most detailed level possible and aggregated to the higher level for confidentiality.
Intermediate consumption is estimated at purchasers’ prices (i.e. including the value of product taxes, product subsidies and trade margins). The data on intermediate consumption is taken from the CSO Supply and Use tables. The product classification of intermediate consumption by product is mapped to CPA codes at the most detailed level. Further product detail is estimated using sources used in creating the CSO Supply and Use publication.
Further information on the terminology and data used in the Productivity chapter can be found here: Productivity in Ireland
The Micro, Small, Medium and Large classifications for productivity analysis follows that of the Business Demography survey.
Exports are estimated at purchasers’ prices. However, in the EVC there is little difference between exports at purchasers’ prices and exports at basic prices in practice. Imports are estimated at basic prices. Exports and imports of services come from the CSO Balance of Payments - Trade in Services. The data is provided to us in the EBOPS product classification. We map this data to CPA product codes. Adjustments were made to the imports of energy products, with the result that discrepancies may exist between the estimates.
Figures 3.1-3.4 in the Labour chapter rely on data from Census 2022. The occupation and education data were not publicly available at the time of publication as the relevant thematic publication had not yet been published. These will be released according to the Census Publication Schedule later in 2023.
The CSO cannot publish any commercially sensitive information (for example, company wage bills), or any statistics that would allow readers to easily infer data for a single company. For this reason, data is put together into larger groups (aggregated) so that no single statistic is completely dominated by a single company. While more detail would generally be preferable, by keeping some statistics confidential, the CSO can assure survey respondents that their data will not be shared, and this provides higher quality statistics overall.
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