English term
Algeria
Every Word Matters
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Algerian, Standard-Arabian (MSA)) 
Works in: English to Arabic
provide
Sector Accounts are ordered in a set of accounts to provide economic analysis, which provide key aggregates, e.g.: value added, operating surplus, disposable income, saving, net lending/borrowing.
Does it refer to Sector Accounts, a set of accounts, or economic analysis?
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Yvonne Gallagher
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John Magambo
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Anthony Putra
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Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US, Canadian, Irish)
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
Economic analysis
Key aggregates.[...]..etc.8
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Mark Robertson
: You beat me to it. The verb should be provides.
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Thanks. Yes indeed, I wonder if they meant to write analyses?
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Oliver Simões
: Either “analysis provides” or “analyses provide”.
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Exactly. Thanks. No doubt as to what "which" refers to...
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philgoddard
: It could also be the accounts, so it's not as clearcut as you suggest. The sentence is badly written, though the meaning is the same either way.
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Tony M
: I rather think it is the 'set of accounts', hence the verb is correct: to me, the 'which' suggests that what follows is an explanation of how they enable this. Poorly written indeed! I believe the plural comes from 'accounts'.
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NB "set" is also singular so the verb is incorrect. I think "which" can only refer to preceding noun here i.e "analysis" which should have been analysEs or the verb with "s".
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Chris Says Bye
: Must be accounts // but the accounts are plural!😂
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Why? It's a SET (of accounts) i.e. SINGULAR
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John Magambo
: agree as the other listed seem to be the outcomes of economic analysis provided..
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Thanks:-)
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Daryo
: yes, that's exactly what this sentence says: it's "the analysis of ..." that provides various indicators, NOT the "raw numbers" found in various accounts. Without the right interpretation/analysis, raw numbers are meaningless.
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Tanzania
Translator and interpreter: MSc PHYSICS
Native in: Swahili (Variant: Tanzanian) 
Works in: Swahili, English to Swahili, Swahili to English, and 1 more.
economic analysis
Indonesia
14yrs of EN-ID & ID-EN Translations
Native in: English (Variants: British, Singaporean, US South, Australian, New Zealand, US, Canadian, UK) , Indonesian (Variant: Standard-Indonesia)
Works in: English, Indonesian to English, English to Indonesian, and 1 more.
Economic Analysis
Also, it should have been which provides (instead of which provide).
Sector Accounts are ordered in a set of accounts to provide economic analysis, which provide key aggregates, e.g.: value added, operating surplus, disposable income, saving, net lending/borrowing.
The animals are ordered in sets of their colors to provide clearer visual, which provides ease of choice for the study.
Discussion
Deciding which "few numbers" should be taken into account, and in which way they should be combined (simple addition is not necessarily the only operation involved) looks very much to me as "analysing data" ... (at least the beginning of it)
You could rephrase it this way:
1 - raw data (Sector Accounts) is feed into / used as input for the process called "analysis"
2 - the output of the process called "analysis" is a set of "key aggregates".
IOW without "analysis" there in no "key aggregates".
Lego bricks are not a house, you have to know / decide how to assemble them.
it's the analysis (of raw data i.e. the Sector Accounts) that provides (/results in establishing the values of) the key aggregate indicators, NOT the raw data just on its own.
In this day and age, I don't think we can ignore the widespread usage of a singular collective noun used with a following plural verb, placing the emphasis on the elements of the collection, as in "a group of people who dance together" — there are so many precedents for this, I don't think we can dismiss it by trying to slavishly follow the normal logic. Indeed, this rule is even enshrined in FR grammar.
To me, the decisive element here is the use of 'which.