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REVISIONS OF SWEDISH NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
1980–1998
and an International Comparison

Lars-Erik
Öller
and

Karl-Gustav
Hansson
Statistics Sweden
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REVISIONS OF SWEDISH NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
1980–1998

and an International Comparison

Lars-Erik
Öller and
Karl-Gustav
Hansson
Statistics Sweden

Abstract.
A revision generally augments a preliminary growth rate. The revision distributions are skew, often with fat tails of outliers. For some Swedish variables, including GDP, revisions are corre- lated with the business cycle. This is also true of most European GDP revisions. Growth rates are revised upwards in upturns and downwards in downturns, and this also results in a tendency to- ward bimodality in the frequency distributions. We identify