Global data collection

Data collection for Physical Energy Flow Accounts (PEFA) and Air Emission Accounts (AEA)

The global data collection for the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) focuses on the Physical Energy Flow Accounts (PEFA) and Air Emission Accounts (AEA) and marks an important achievement for the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) towards the establishment of global databases for the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA). 

The questionnaires, developed under the auspices of the UNCEEA, are fully consistent with the SEEA and were developed on the basis of existing Eurostat PEFA and AEA questionnaires but tailored to fit the circumstances of countries with different levels of data availability. In particular, each questionnaire contains three different templates which correspond to different levels of data disaggregation.

Data submitted through the questionnaires will be validated using established validation rules and then disseminated through a database maintained by UNSD. This will ensure easy access to high-quality, comparable official statistics that are relevant for climate change and energy policy.

It is also important to note that the PEFA and AEA questionnaires contribute to the Group of Twenty (G20) Data Gaps Initiative (DGI), which aims to close key climate change data gaps using PEFA and AEA questionnaires as templates.

Compilation guidance and the questionnaires can be downloaded below.

Please note that you will need to unblock the macros before using the questionnaire. Please see here.