National Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Income and by Expenditure Accounts
Stock to sales ratio of economy, category
Stock to sales ratio refers to a ratio derived by dividing a value that represents stock by another which represents sales. Stock is defined as a position in, or holding of, assets and liabilities at a point in time. Sales represents receipts derived from the sale of goods or the provision of services offered for sale in the course of operations during a specified time period (receipts from charitable gaming, rental income and sales to government are included).
Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.
The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:
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