Swedish Historical Regional Accounts: 2023 Update, Revision and Underlying Principles

Since the most recent edition of the SHRA only stretches to 2000/2010, the main purpose of thecurrent edition has been to update the accounts using more recent data from Statistics Sweden(SCB) and the Swedish Historical National Accounts (SHNA) database. As the SHRA estimates build largely on the SHNA estimates, such a forward extension is now possible due to the recent and associated update of the SHNA (see Nilsson et al., 2023). However, little attention has been paid in previous SHRA publications to precisely how the accounts should be updated. It is therefore the aim of this paper to provide a description of technical matters relating to the update and discuss some of the choices that have been made, so that the SHRA keeps being updated according to a consistent framework.