Financial Accounts of the Government Sector
Since September 2014 the financial accounts of the government sector are provided by Statistics Austria. Currently the data includes the periods 2012 until 2019 on an annual basis. Quarterly data is available from the 1st quarter of 2012 until the 3rd quarter of 2020. The current publication contains revisions to 2020 Q1 and Q2 data compared to the last publication in September 2020.
For all other sectors data is provided by the Austrian National Bank (OeNB). The financial and non-financial accounts should form a consistent system where the accounting balance from the former should in theory reflect the accounting balance of the latter. In practice deviations are possible.
Information regarding the effects of the CoVID
New debt taken up by the government sector is observable
in the first quarter of 2020. This new debt is accompanied by a rise
in deposits confirming that the effects of pay-outs of the Covid
Description of result table
The table is structured into the four subsectors (S.1311 Central government, S.1312 State government, S.1313 Local government, S.13414 Social security funds) and the General government.
In the final results of the subsectors, according to the accounting standards of ESA2010, both the asset-and liability side are consolidated. The sum of all subsectors is not identical with the general government sector because in the latter case also the consolidation adjustment between the subsectors is considered.
Furthermore, please take note that the values on the liability side of the general government sector, especially the debt securities, deviate from the public gross debt since the EDP debt level uses nominal values whereas in ESA2010 debt securities are recorded at market value.