Supply, use and input-output tables provide detailed information for a given year on production activities, the supply and demand of goods and services, intermediate consumption, primary inputs and foreign trade.
Supply and use tables are matrices by product and industry showing the production processes and transactions for particular products or industries.
Symmetric input-output tables are product-by-product or industry-by-industry matrices combining both supply and use into a single table with identical classification of products or industries, applied to both rows and columns.
Tables Presented
The European System of Accounts (ESA95) has established a compulsory transmission of tables by the European Member States which are:
Annual supply and use tables
Five-yearly symmetric input-output tables
Five-yearly symmetric input-output tables of domestic production
Five-yearly symmetric input-output tables of imports
The legal requirement is valid from the end of the year 2002. The tables cover mostly the period since 1995.
Some Acceding and Candidate Countries also voluntarily provide these tables.
Since May 2011 consolidated tables for the European Union and the euro area are disseminated. These are:
Annual supply and use tables at basic prices;
Annual symmetric input-output tables (product by product) with the split domestic output and imports.
These tables are available in current prices. The tables related to years 2000 to 2006. The data will not be revised.
Data Presented
These tables show among other things:
The structure of the costs of production and the value added, which is generated in the production process
The inter-dependencies of industries
The flows of goods and services produced within the national economy
The flows of goods and services with the rest of the world
Supply, use and input-output tables are available in national currency (NAC) and for non-EMU Member States now also in euro/ECU.
The tables are harmonised by Eurostat’s standardised questionnaire, which distinguishes 60 products (classification CPA P60) and 60 industries (NACE A60) for the data up to 2007 based on NACE rev 1.1. From reference year 2008 onwards, the products and industry classifications will be based on NACE Rev 2 (64 products and 64 industries).
ESA 95 Regulation