Sector accounts

Sector accounts present a breakdown of economic activity for all resident institutional sectors in a complete and consistent set of quarterly data.

They provide comprehensive information not only on the economic activities of households, non-financial corporations, financial corporations and government, but also on the interactions between these sectors and the rest of the world.

For the euro area as a whole, the ECB, in close cooperation with Eurostat, compiles the quarterly euro area accounts.

Sector accounts consist of financial and non-financial accounts. They link financial and non-financial statistics, thereby allowing for an integrated analysis of non-financial economic activities (such as gross fixed capital formation) and financial transactions (such as the issuance of debt). The euro area accounts also contain consistent financial balance sheets, as well as major components of non-financial assets.

For euro area as well as for non-euro area EU countries, the ECB disseminates a similar set of quarterly financial accounts as for the euro area as a whole, supplemented by a set of key variables from the non-financial accounts.

Press releases

• Euro area accounts, all institutional sectors (quarterly, with charts and tables)

Data

• Euro area accounts: Overview, datasets, publications and dashboards, methodology

• Release calendar for euro area accounts statistics

Report sheets

Presented in the format of the monthly Statistics Bulletin tables, but including latest data:

• Integrated economic and financial accounts by institutional sector
• Households
• Non-financial corporations
• Financial corporations

Extended euro area and national accounts tables

Euro area

• Main indicators
• Integrated economic accounts
• Institutional sectors
• Who-to-whom detail

National financial accounts tables

• Euro area countries
• Other European Union countries

Household Sector Report

• Household Sector Report (full report, quarterly)

Sources and methods

The concepts and definitions used are in line with the following international statistical standard:

• European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010)

Additional methodological information

• Impact of Covid-19 on the Quarterly Financial Accounts statistics
• Debt of non-financial corporations – Explanation of alternative measurement concepts, October 2019
• Explanatory note accompanying the Eurosystem balance sheet in the Financial Accounts, July 2019
• Understanding Financial Accounts
• Implementation and impact of the European System of Accounts 2010
• Methodological information, October 2010
• Euro area accounts glossary, October 2010

Quality Report

The Quality Report on euro area and national quarterly financial accounts is published every year. The report focuses on the collection, compilation and dissemination of the statistics.

• Euro area and national quarterly financial accounts - 2019 Quality Report
• Euro area and national quarterly financial accounts - 2018 Quality Report
• Quality reporting under the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure (MIP) Scoreboard

Legal basis

The legal basis for collecting quarterly financial accounts statistics is laid down in Guideline ECB/2013/24.