Economic totals per region, 2001-2004

Table explanation

Description topics

GDP

Value added at market prices of the total economy (GDP)
is calculated as follows:
total value added at basic prices of industries
plus: balance of taxes and subsidies on products
plus: difference imputed and paid VAT.
VAT, taxes on imports and subsidies on re-exports cannot be
attributed to individual industries. Therefore, GDP at market
prices cannot be broken down completely by industry.
Value added can be valued gross (including consumption of
fixed capital) or net (excluding consumption of fixed capital).

GDP per capita

Gross domestic product (GDP), value added at market prices of the
total economy, per capita.

Relation GDP (basic prices)

Gross domestic product (GDP); GDP at market prices consistent with GDP
at basic prices.

Total value added (at basic prices)

Value added at basic prices of total enterprises equals the difference
between the production (basic prices) and intermediate consumption
(purchasers' prices).

Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees is the total renumeration paid by employers
to their employees in return for work done.
Employees are all residents and non-residents working in a paid job.
Managing directors of limited companies are considered to be employees;
therefore their salaries are also included in the compensation of
employees. The same holds for people working in sheltered workshops.
Compensation of employees is distinguished between wages and salaries
and employers' social contributions.
Wages and salaries include income taxes and employees' social
contributions even if they are actually withheld by the employer and paid
directly to tax authorities, social security schemes and pension schemes.
Wages include payments that are periodically and directly paid to
employees. Besides they contain extra's (such as bonuses, overtime pay,
tips, commission), wages in kind (such as free housing, free food,
'company car', day nursery, lower interest rates on mortgages,
free travel (or at reduced prices) and holiday allowances. Furthermore,
certain refunds for costs made by the employee, such as travel expenses
to and from work, are included as well.
Employers' social contributions consist of payments to insurers made by
employers for the benefit of their employees. They can be classified in
employers' social security contributions, employers' private social
contributions (o.w. pension schemes) and the imputed social contributions.
In most cases the employers directly pay the employers' social
contributions to the insurers. However, to show that these contributions
are paid for the benefit of employees, these payments are recorded as two
transactions: a) employers pay employers' social contributions to their
employees, and b) employees pay the same contributions to social
insurance funds.

Taxes (not product-related)

Taxes on production paid by producers, not related to the value or volume
of the products produced or transacted. Examples are real estate tax
and sewerage charges paid by producers.

Subsidies (not product-related)

Subsidies on production paid to producers, not related to the value or
volume of products domestically produced or transacted. These are
mainly wage subsidies.

Gross operating surplus

The gross operating surplus by industry is the balance that remains
after deducting from the value added (basic prices) the compensation
of employees and the balance of not product-related taxes and
not product-related subsidies on production.
The operating surplus of family enterprises is called mixed income,
because it also contains compensation for work by the owners and their
family members.
On the level of the total economy operating surplus is computed by
adding to the total of the industries the difference imputed and
paid VAT.

Correction operating surplus

The difference between the imputed and paid VAT.

Total gross operating surplus

Gross operating surplus of industries plus correction operating surplus.