Today, Eurostat is publishing for the first time detailed supply, use, and input-output tables for 88 products and industries. These tables will benefit users by giving them greater insights into the structure of EU countries’ economies. They enable a more granular analysis of critical products and industries, such as mining and quarrying activities, construction, and various service activities.
Researchers, policy makers and economic modelers can for example get more accurate assessments of production structures, consumption patterns, trade flows, as well as subsidies and taxes. The tables will also improve the analytical foundation for other Eurostat products such as the FIGARO inter-country supply, use, and input-output tables, derived global value chain indicators, and environmental consumption footprints.
The tables are based on voluntary data transmissions from EU countries. Currently, 8 EU countries have sent to Eurostat more disaggregated tables and flagged their data as free for publication. Eurostat will expand the datasets as additional countries transmit their data and flag it for publication.
While data are still often partial and available only for a limited time series, number of countries, products, or industries, they represent an important step forward to meeting a growing user demand for high-resolution macroeconomic statistics.
