The first version of Eurostat’s “Economy Wide Material Flow Accounts: Compilation Guidelines” was released in draft form in 2007. It has been used by national statistical offices to support the collection of EW-MFA data and to complete the EW-MFA questionnaire sent out by Eurostat in 2007. Revised versions of the compilation guide were prepared for supporting the data collections via the 2009, 2011, and the 2012 questionnaire.
This 2013 version of the Compilation Guidelines refers to the 2013 EW-MFA Questionnaire. The revisions in the 2013 version are minor and a result of feedbacks from and discussions with experts from national statistical offices.