Economy-wide material flow accounts: Publication is renewed
Date of change:Database tables of economy-wide material flow accounts are renewed
The StatFin database tables of the economy-wide material flow accounts are published with a more detailed material classification than before. The new database table 13rw -- Material flows by material category in 2010 to 2021 provides data on domestic extraction, imports, exports, domestic material consumption and domestic material input as a time series starting from 2010. For data protection reasons, new hierarchical levels are available on either the 1, 2 or 3-digit level.
Starting from the statistical reference year 2021, data are no longer published on total material requirement or hidden flows. The calculation method of hidden flows will be developed and new coefficients of raw material equivalents (RME) with their indicators will be published in 2023. Old database tables 11hj, 11i4 and 11i9 are available in the archive.
Time series revision
The time series of economy-wide material flow accounts has been checked and revised because of methodological development and new data sources starting from the statistical reference year 2010. For this reason, the new data do not match those of old publications. The change particularly concerns the amounts of sand and gravel. In addition, the time series is not fully comparable for sand and gravel between 2016 and 2017.