National Accounts: New 2012 Base Year, Revised Series

This IHSI publication presents Haiti's national accounts with a new 2012 base year and a revised 2000-2019 series. It explains the context and rationale for changing the base year, defines national accounts and the base year, describes the methodological framework used to compile the 2012 accounts, and gives sector-specific methodology and metadata for crop agriculture, livestock, enterprises, construction, transport, services, public administration, education, health and social work, final consumption, gross fixed capital formation, foreign trade, production and product taxes, and trade and transport margins.

The document lists data sources, identifies major changes from the old base, and discusses public-administration production, consumption of fixed capital, financial intermediation services indirectly measured, and the informal sector. It then presents the GDP revaluation for 2011-2012, changes in GDP structure, impacts on global supply and demand, the informal sector's contribution, impacts on ratios, and retropolated and extrapolated series. Annexes provide 2012 base-year tables and revised GDP series. The document is the methodological bridge for interpreting Haitian GDP and macroeconomic ratios before and after the rebasing.