Transcript ISWGNA-Regional Commissions meeting, New York, 18 February 2010 ESCAP proposed core set of economic statistics Jan Smit Regional Adviser on Statistics, ESCAP [email protected].

ISWGNA-Regional Commissions meeting,
New York, 18 February 2010
ESCAP proposed core set of economic
statistics
Jan Smit
Regional Adviser on Statistics, ESCAP
[email protected]
Overview
1. What the Core Set is expected to achieve
–
Some elaborations and clarifications on
discussion note
2. The proposed Core Set and its place in the
Regional Programme for the Improvement of
Economic Statistics
3. Immediate next steps
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Core Set is indicative, not prescriptive…
• The Core Set is a desired set of statistics
• Even then, characteristics (industry,
commodity detail, etc.) of these statistics are
country-specific
• However, international best practices and
reporting strongly suggest some minimal
requirements
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Core Set and information requirements
• Core Set will not necessarily satisfy all needs
– Listed under point 2.1 (p.2) of discussion note
• But will be a major step forward for most
developing countries in the region
• Core Set does not provide all of the data
needed to compile complex derived statistics
such as SNA and BOP outputs
– Some needed source data are implicit (and not
explicitly listed in the Core Set)
– For some advanced SNA outputs, such as balance
sheets and financial accounts, additional data are
needed not listed in the Core Set
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Core Set and UNSD HF statistics set
• HF set: presented and discussed at
International Seminar on Early Warning and
Business Cycle Indicators
– Scheveningen, The Netherlands, December 2090
• Probably scope for showing how Core Set
aligns with HF set
• Analytical framework adopted for HF domains
might be useful to provide further
clarification for the selection domains in the
Core Set
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Core Set is still in draft form
• Tables still have to be closely reviewed for
completeness and accuracy
– Applies especially to Annex II (pp. 11-15) in the
discussion note (setting out the links between the
Core Set and indicative SNA data needs)
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Why Programme on Economic Statistics?
• Adoption of 2008 SNA by UNSC
• Global economic crisis highlights need for
better economic statistics in many countries
• Realization that ongoing / past capacity
building efforts for economic statistics have
been less than optimal because of – among
others - a lack of sharing information and
cooperation between players
• 2009 UNSC session requested ESCAP to establish an
informal mechanism for donor coordination
• Taking account of existing mechanisms, roles and
responsibilities
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Relevance of 2008 SNA adoption
• Realization that most developing Asia-Pacific
countries have still not been able to fully
implement 1993 SNA
– Only ~ 1/4 of countries in the region produce all 7
tables of the minimum requirement dataset
(MRDS) (~ ½ produce ≥ 6 tables)
– Proportions are lower for low-income countries,
South-East Asia and the Pacific
– And compare unfavourably with those for Latin
America and the Caribbean
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SNA implementation status in the region
Number of ESCAP
countries
35
30
6
25
9
20
15
10
5
8
5
8
0
SNA68
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1
1
5
SNA68/93
Pacific
9
3
2
2
2
SNA93
SEA
4
2
SSWA
SNA2008
NCA
No SNA/No info
ENEA
Regional Programme stakeholders
• RP not an ESCAP alone programme
• Determined by country-level needs
• In partnership with national, subregional,
regional and global players
• Technical Advisory Group membership:
– Countries: AFG, AUS, IND, KAZ, MNG, NZL
– Subregional: ASEAN Secretariat, Economic
Cooperation Organization (ECO) Secretariat,
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
– Regional: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
– Global: Eurostat, FAO, IMF
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Approach to development of Programme
• Agree on a core set of economic statistics
that each country in the region should be able
to produce
• Assess countries’ capacity to produce
economic statistics, and determine what
main impediments to produce core set are
– Initial assessment done; need for continuous (e.g.
annual) monitoring
• Identify what countries & agencies are doing
/ planning to do to overcome capacity
constraints
– Need for ongoing information sharing / collection
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Programme development approach (cont.)
• Identify, for each country, what the remaining
gaps in capacity are
• Determine, for and with each country, what
national priorities to fill the gaps are
• Develop national work plans to address the
priorities by:
– Integrating capacity building requirements for
economic statistics in National Strategies for the
Development of Statistics
– Mobilizing (advocating for the mobilization) of
national and internationally resources (funding)
• Implementing / monitoring the work plans
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Immediate next steps
1. Finalize the Regional Programme document
–
First half 2010
2. Finalize the proposed Core Set
–
For submission to CST 2
3. Set up the informal coordination mechanism
4. Assess capacity to produce Core Set and
identify key constraints in some countries
–
Through assessment missions
5. Provide other ad-hoc advisory services in the
area of economic statistics
–
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Informal coordination mechanism
• Crucial to obtain info on ongoing and planned
activities from all players at all levels:
– National
– Subregional, regional and global
• Make use of existing mechanisms to the
highest extent possible
– Like PRESS, NSDSs, etc.
– No need for ESCAP to go directly to countries if
info is already available at the subregional level
• Like ASEAN Secretariat, SPC, CIS-Stat
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Capacity assessment missions
• Assess, through missions, capacity to produce
Core Set and identify main constraints
• To help to design specific modalities /
interventions for technical assistance
• Some countries
– In different subregions and at different levels of
statistical development
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