Sector accounts; current transactions by sectors 1969- q4 2013
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Table explanation
This table provides an overview of the non-financial transactions of the institutional sectors of the Dutch economy, distinguishing between uses and resources. Non-financial transactions consist of current transactions and transactions from the capital account. Furthermore, this table provides the main balancing items of the (sub)sectors.
Non-financial transactions are estimated for the main institutional sectors of the economy and the rest of the world. The main institutional sectors of the economy are non-financial corporations, financial corporations, general government, households and non-profit institutions serving households. A breakdown into subsectors is provided for financial corporations and general government sectors.
Data available from:
Years from 1969 to 2013
Quarters from first quarter 2005 to fourth quarter 2013.
Status of the figures:
The figures concerning 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 are (revised) provisional. Because this table is discontinued, figures will not be updated anymore.
Changes as of June 25th 2014:
None, this table is discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore.
This table is replaced by table Sector accounts; current transactions by sectors. See paragraph 3.
Description topics
- Resources
- Revenue of institutional sectors.
- Compensation of employees
- Compensation of employees is the total remuneration 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 broken down into 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 extras (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 (of which 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.- Employers’ social contributions
- 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 (of which 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.
- Social contributions and benefits
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.
- Total
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.
- Social contributions
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in the first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Total
- Social contributions include social security contributions, private social contributions (among which contributions to pension schemes) and imputed social contributions. Employers, employees, self-employed persons and non-active persons pay these contributions. Actually, the employers' part is paid directly to the insurers. However, in the national accounts, the employers' contributions are supposed to be part of primary income of households (i.e. the income from direct participation in the production process). Therefore, in the first instance these contributions are treated as payments by employers to households as compensation of employees, who are deemed to pay them to the insurers in the income account.
- Actual social contributions
- Actual social contributions concern payments, enforced by laws or (collective) labour agreement, in order to make social benefits possible.
- Total
- Actual social contributions concern payments, enforced by laws or (collective) labour agreement, in order to make social benefits possible.
- Social security contributions
- Social security contributions are contributions of households to social security funds.
- Contributions to pension schemes
- Contributions to pension schemes are based on collective contracts with pension funds and life insurance companies.
The contributions are calculated as follows:
actual contributions to pension schemes (gross)
minus: compensation of insurance services (part of consumption of households)
plus: supplement from investment income
= contributions to pension schemes
The supplement from investment income is part of the property income attributed to insurance policyholders that relates to pensions.
- Other private social contributions
- Other private social contributions are contributions paid to private social schemes excluding pension schemes. The contributions to these schemes can be derived in the same way as the contributions to pension schemes.
- Imputed social contributions
- Imputed social contributions represent the counterpart to the 'unfunded employee social benefits' (less any employees’ social contributions) paid directly by employers to their (former) employees. It is necessary to introduce this imputation because the direct payments are recorded twice. Firstly they are recorded as employers’ social contributions (part of the compensation of employees). Secondly they are recorded as social benefits.
- Social benefits (in cash)
- Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.
Social benefits are classified in social security benefits, social assistance benefits, private funded social benefits (among which pension benefits) and unfunded employee social benefits.- Total
- Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.
Social benefits are classified in social security benefits, social assistance benefits, private funded social benefits (among which pension benefits) and unfunded employee social benefits.
- Social security benefits
- Social security benefits are paid by social security funds, in the field of unemployment, disability, sickness, old age etc.
- Unfunded employee social benefits
- These social benefits are directly paid by employers to their (former) employees, without involving any social security fund. Examples are the continuation of wages in case of illness and military pension provisions.
- Social assistance benefits
- Social assistance benefits are payments of the central and local government to households, for which no quid pro quo by the beneficiary is expected. These benefits are based on a number of Dutch laws, such as the Act on Labour and Social Assistance.