Website: Statistics: European sector accounts

European sector accounts group together economic subjects with similar behaviour into institutional sectors, such as:
- Households
- Non-financial corporations
- Financial corporations
- Government

Grouping economic subjects in this way greatly helps to understand the functioning of the economy.

The compilation of quarterly European sector accounts is the outcome of a close collaboration by Eurostat, the European Central Bank (ECB), the national statistical institutes and the national central banks in the European Union. They produce quarterly figures for the euro area (19 countries) or whole EU (28 countries), released four months afterwards.