Provinces

Provinces
The expenditures of the provinces are classified by function using the Benelux classification. Detailed databases are available containing information from the annual reports of the 12 provinces. As for the national government, the required level of detail for the expenditures of the provinces was not always available in the databases. Consulting the paper versions of the annual reports yielded some detail, however not in all cases, and not always at a sufficient level. Because of lack of detail in the data, the estimation of tourism collective consumption of the provinces has been concentrated in the function ‘General planning and coordination related to tourism affairs’.
Municipalities (including inter-communal associations)
Information from the municipalities consists of a sample of annual reports. Whereas the data of the national government and provinces is based on a census, the data of municipalities is based on a sample of about 600 annual reports. The data is placed in matrices linked with the functions of municipalities. Data on the inter-communal associations are also based on a sample of annual reports, collected in a database and linked to a classification of functions. Even though relatively detailed information on municipalities and inter-communal associations is available, the identification of individual, opposed to collective non-market output, proved 158 difficult for this part of government. The actual supply of recreational, culture and sporting services, individual non-market services, had to be distinguished from the administration and coordination of these services. Some assumptions have been made about which functions are collective and which individual and
(therefore) not allowed to be included in the measurement of tourism collective consumption. Non-profit institutions part of government
Non-profit institutions belonging to government also produce collective nonmarket output.