[wdmmg-discuss] Whole of Government Accounts

Wed Jul 13 21:45:18 UTC 2011

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the comment! It should show up here soon:

http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/13/release-of-whole-of-government-accounts/#comment-2966

I think this may be the mighty OKF cache kicking in? Sometimes I wish
it weren't *quite* so mighty. ;-)

J.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Lisa Evans <lisa.evans at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Johnathan, I tried to post a comment on this post but it isn't showing up
> on the blog.
>
> The comment was:
>
> I agree that there are certainly flaws in the WGA, and I agree that just one
> method for gathering data on local authority financing is too limiting.  But
> I wonder what are the better alternatives for calculating the macro economic
> measures like those published today. Do you think the National Accounts
> published by the ONS are a better alternative?
>
> In terms of what to do with the data, I think that more interesting things
> will be published in Autumn, when the actual WGA report is published - not
> the unauided accounts like today.
>
> It is worth seeing if the supporting data will be published then - that is
> all public body accounts used in WGA, in digitial form.
>
> Lisa
>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> Great post from Dan Herbert on the Whole of Government Accounts data,
>> released today:
>>
>> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/13/release-of-whole-of-government-accounts/
>>
>> Here's some further info:
>>
>> http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/psr_government_accounts.htm
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/13/data-store-government-data
>>
>> Do we have any plans for this yet? ;-)
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>

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