From annual to quarterly data: challenges and strategies in the estimation of Italian General Government Compensation of employees
从年度到季度:意大利一般政府雇员报酬估计的挑战与策略
This paper addresses the methodology for the quarterly estimation of Compensation of Employees paid by the General Government (GG) sector, in accordance with the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010). Due to the limited high-frequency data availability and the need to guarantee the consistency with annual constraints, quarterly estimation relies on indirect temporal disaggregation techniques. These methods use specific infra-annual indicators as proxies for the variables…