Reports of countries to the fifth meeting of the Steering Group on the implementation of the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics Country China Advocacy and Coordination RPES elements and the core set are covered in the fiveyear statistical development plan which is currently being drawn up for its 13 th update Progress made on Statistical Capacity since the last capacity screening No change from the report in 2013 in the production of the core set Productivity, Commodity price index, Hours worked remain Unavailable Not able to practice the method of accounting for GDP by expenditure remain Below recommendation Encountering difficulties to collect basic data to calculate wage index - remain Below recommendation Statistical Infrastructure that needs most assistance with (QAF, Metadata repository, Business registers, surveys/censuses ) QAF framework Existing Technical Cooperation Cost Structure Survey and Employment Statistics (Federal Statistical Office of Germany) Wholesale and Retail Statistics (Statistics Netherlands) Economic Statistics in SDGs NBS experts are members of IAEG- SDG and actively involved in drafting SDG global indicators NBS is a member of the inter-ministerial coordination mechanism that will push for policies implementation and monitoring Cambodia Statistical Law No change from the SBR COMPASS Discussion on the
India enacted in 2005 and revising in 2016 Provided in this law, all kinds of data and released by NIS along with those produced by other 27 line ministries are official NIS coordinates with other agencies to produce core set of economic National Bank of Cambodia, Customs, Ministry of Economic and Finance National Statistical Commission is the apex level recommending body of the, comprises of RBI, MSPI (Central Statistics Office, National Sample Survey Office, National Statistical report in 2013 in the production of the core set External merchandise trade indices, Labour costs/wage index, Productivity and 7 other core set domains remain Unavailable 13 core set domains remain Below recommendation Only 7 (out of 31) Meet or exceed recommendations Conducted Agricultural Census in 2013 Conducted Inter-censal Economic Survey in 2014 Three core set domains that were unavailable in 2013 are now produced STIconsumer demand, STIfixed investment, and STI-inventories 8 domains are below recommended frequency instead of 11 as previously reported in 2013 LFS CPI to include data from provinces PPI National Accounts Natural resources Dynamic upgrade of frame Availability of economic and indicators at state, district and village level Generation of economic Global Strategy to improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics Completed Roadmap and IdCA for Strategic Plan for Agricultural and Rural Statistics (SPARS) ADB funded the conduct of LFS in the capital city ILO funded the conduct of national LFS in 2013 ESCAP to support the strengthening of economic production and dissemination from 2015-2018 indicators for SDG monitoring to start within 2016 2
Indonesia Systems Training Academy, and Computer Centre) and various other ministries MSPI is the statistical office of the and coordinates with RBI and various other ministries to produce and disseminate official BPS Strategic Plan (2015-2019), which is embedded in the National Long- Term Development Plan (2005-2025), aligned its mission and vision with the RPES. STATCAP- CERDAS (Statistical Capacity Building Change and Reform for the Development of Statistics in Indonesia) project, which is BPS effort Rebase national accounts to 2011-12 per 2008 SNA guidelines, coverage has been expanded to improve the national accounting system Advance-release calendars User-friendly website Integrated Statistical Service data users can obtain printed or soft copy publications considering the users requirements Metadata repository QAF, though developed in 2012 has not been implemented SBR not optimal implementation Industry Statistics most difficult to produce IIP, BOP, and debt - It s challenging for Australian Bureau of Statistics National accounts, International Trade Statistics, SBR, etc. Statistics Korea methodologies on statistical observations, surveys and censuses; information technology ERIA development of economic and social including human resources capabilities World Bank STATCAP CERDAS financing UNSD, UNEP and Norwegian Ministry of SDG-related fora are held regularly BPS published a book that initially analyzed the data availability and data sources of SDGs including the development of the preparation of GDP indicators 3
Japan in the over-all bureaucratic reform, is underway to improve BPS effectiveness and efficiency to produce and disseminate reliable and timely data The 2 nd Master Plan Concerning the Development of Official Statistics will advance the qualities of the Core Set (2014-2018) with the objective of creating economic policies to end deflation among others The Master Plan also details the coordination and specific roles of organizations in the, including the ministries contributions for international cooperation efforts Enhanced the role of business registers by the inclusion of other censuses aside from the economic census, sample surveys, and administrative data to produce new and to provide survey frames for the next rounds of economic and other censuses, and sample surveys Included research and development component in GDP per 2008 SNA Reviewed unemployment rate methodology and these rates will be released quarterly in 2018 BPS to include these in the full core set improvement plan as these are produced by other agencies GDP by income approach to be produced quarterly Productivity General operations to be made quarterly Natural resources, especially on energy to be developed Foreign Affairs to develop SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (EEA) Considering administrative data and big data as new data sources Expanding metadata aiming at high quality official Enhancing the accuracy of by using statistical methodologies such as developing population information, raising response ratio and imputation 4
Lao PDR Lao Statistics Bureau, established in 2010, operates as a sub-ministry under the Ministry of Planning and Investment Included in the enactment of the Statistics Law in 2010 is the Strategy for Development of National Statistics System (SDNSS) 2010-2020 in which the production of the core set of economic are included SDNSS also identifies the line ministries which are responsible for producing the core set, e.g. BOL, MOF and etc. Improved quality assurance of CPI - updated weights, new method of collecting data using tablet, increase sample size, and reporting on monthly basis Improved quality assurance of GDP by production - using SUT 2012, ISIC Rev 4, and reporting annually (to be released quarterly later in 2016) Improved quality assurance of GDP by expendiure using annual household survey as data source, and reporting annually. Improved quality assurance of merchandise trade monthly data collection from Customs, data released annually and quarterly BOP updated to BPM6 and released quarterly Money and Banking domains (from BOL) and Government CPI compilation training to include central and provincial staff Price indices Construction and real estate, Import and Export, Agriculture and Service GDP compilation in line with the 2008 SNA Integrated National Accounts and Institutional Sector Accounts compilation Methodology for annual household survey and enterprise survey Labour market Natural resources Various projects on-going with World Bank, IMF, ADB, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNSD, UNSIAP, ASEAN (including COMPASS), KOIKA Data related to the SDGs are very limited Green growth measurement capacity was introduced to other agencies SDGs have been discussed among agencies but not clear yet which agency will be responsible on which indicators 5
Malaysia Maldives 6 Embarked the DOSM s Department Transformation Programme for 2015-2020 which was designed to cover 26 programs that included the core set of economic and outlined 81 activities to enhance SBR, NQAF, data documentation, and others Newly formed NBS organizational structure is broader with a new statistical system domains (from MOF) added and improved No change from the report in 2013 in the production of the core set - 28 indicators that meet or exceed recommendation, 2 indicators that are below recommendation (Labour costs index and Income distribution), 1 that is unavailable (natural resources) NQAF implementation Natural resources to develop energy per SEEA framework Data warehousing will go live Integrated GSBPM SBR implementation in Malaysian statistical system through National Enterprise- Wide Statistical System (NEWSS) since 2010 Improved the number core set indicators that meet or exceed recommendation from 4 in 2013 to 8 in 2016 which are CPI, PPI, SDMX Enhancement of implementation of the NQAF SEEA implementation Business register National accounts Employment UNSD for the development of natural resources indicators using the SEEA framework ESCAP NSDS review, NSS strengthening and the development of environment Plans are put in place to produce the core DOSM is the national focal point for SDG indicators DOSM is trying its best to coordinate with other agencies to get them to commit to the SDGs Capacity building to produce SDGs is crucial for the country. NBS is working closely with MOF
Mongolia organized in 2012 Current NSDS 2010-2019 covered some of the Core Set domains Full review of NSDS in 2016 will make sure that the full Core Set is included Continued coordination with the tax authority. STI-related indicators will be made available once tax authority data are improved Economic Statistics is an integral part of the NSDS, 23 core set indicators are incorporated in the current NSDS NSDS 2011-2015 - 40 activities related to economic and environment NSDS 2016-2020 50 activities related to economic and environment External trade of merchandise, Income distribution (HIES 2016 is ongoing), Money and Banking, and General operations Developed existing methodologies to collect data, e.g. using PDAs to collect CPI, rebasing national accounts to 2014 using the 2008 SNA and compiling SUTs, updated to BPM6, improved HIES data collection, 2014 population census 28 core indicators meet or exceed recommendation (from 24 in 2013) these include 3 STI-related indicators and GDP by expenditure 2 indicators below recommendation External merchandise trade price indices, Labour cost index/wage index 1 indicator remained unavailable (from 5 in and labour market Import and export index SDGs QAF Developing trainers for NSS Modernization of NSS QAF Metadata Labour Hours worked Natural resources in NSDS IIP, price and costs, demand and output ADB 2015 PPP update; Supply and Use Tables World Bank Smart project and Trust fund project including setting up the GSBPM integration, ADB- compilation of annual SUT and ICP ABS Ulaanbaatar City Group ESCAP Agriculture Statistics which is a main priority of the UNDP and UNEP assessment of NBS staff are in the Steering Committee to work on SDGs Mapped SDGs to the Core Set and identified the economic indicators in SDGs NRSO initiated meetings with all ministries and agencies and identified SDG indicators within their responsibility NRSO led task force on SDG methodology 7
Pakistan 8 including SDGs Transition period of the restructuring of PBS that started in 2012 paved way for the NSDS activities implementation NSDS activities implementation included the production of the core set indicators and also focusing on 6 th population census, rebasing of the national accounts 2015-2016 based on the 2008 SNA and the conduct of agriculture census Coordination with the Central Bank 2013) Hours worked Compiled annual SUT Done GDP compilation using the 3 approaches Implemented 2008 SNA Milestone level 5 compared to level 4 from two years ago Compiled energy on experimental basis 4 out of the 9 core set indicators that were reported unavailable in 2013 are now in the works to be produced CPI, Labour cost index, Integrated national accounts, Institutional sector accounts Updated Rural and Urban frame Use of tablets in collecting data STI, I/O tables, Environmental Accounts, Institutional Accounts, Informal Economy, Agriculture Satellite Natural resources indicators Business register Metadata repository Develop National Economy Statistics Development Plan (NESDP) national/provincial data availability when compared to the global SDG indicators focusing on economic and environment UNFPA Population Census GIZ National accounts and business register IMF National accounts and Price Statistics development and assessment Initiated discussions with line agencies regarding SDGs Reviewed existing module of PSLM survey in the light of the SDGs
Philippines and Finance Department to produce STI related indicators are still met with difficulties Merged 4 statistical offices into one body Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Prepared the Philippine Statistical Development Program (equivalent to NSDS) and currently implementing the 2011-2017 plan 24 core indicators meet or exceed recommendations (from 19 in 2013). The 5 indicators that improved are wage index, STIfixed investment, integrated national accounts, institutional sector accounts, and general debt 5 indicators below recommendations (from 10 in 2013) wages/earnings data, STI-inventories, income distribution, general operations, and natural resources 2 indicators that are unavailable commodity price index and external merchandise trade prices indices Rebased the national accounts to 2012 2020 to address the Core Set DQAF for economic Upgrading of ICT resources Strengthen the institutional coordination within the PSS Savings and wealth Employment in informal sector Terms of trade Natural resources and environment ADB ICP to calculate PPP APEC Input-Output Accounts World Bank Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) among other projects UNSD development of SEEA framework FAO improvement ofmarketing information and international price system as part of the agricultural marketing information system Identified the role of in SDGs Out of the 230 SDG indicators, the PSA needs to refine and define the national basket of indicators out of the international basket and with that PSA has initiated a conference with data providers and users in the country to study the supply and demand of SDG indicators SDGs are to be included in policy formulation and planning SDGs will be used to targeting and prioritization SDGs will be used for monitoring progress 9
Republic of Korea Russian Federation 10 Decentralized system of other agencies produced the core set of economic including the IOT and deflators to CPI also to 2012 Productivity data (used to be Unavailable) now released on the Korea Productivity Center website with time-series data 2000-2015 General operations released annually but with longer time series 1997-2015 Economic census conducted in 2015 and data will be released in June 2017 External merchandise trade price indices below recommendations before now calculated monthly 2008 SNA used for GDP compilation since 2014 including expenditure on military equipment, and R&D BPM6 already introduced IOT construction completed last year Annual SUT Compiled the full set of tables Harmonisation of administrative data (, budget, extrabudgetary funds) with the needs of national accounts compilation; Delineation of general sector and OECD - development of the system of national accounts of the Russian Federation
Samoa 6 th year of the Strategy of the development of incorporated the needs of the international community which was the MDGs in 2010-2011 Government initiated the development of sector plans which is key to the coordination among stakeholders Sector plans fund surveys like the business activity based on 2011 data Fully developed the on environment protection Almost completed the work on fossil energy and mineral resources on these areas will be fully covered in 2018 Production of is more driven by the needs of the country Business activity survey results now have the baseline information to replace the GDP estimates which is now adapted to 2013 as base year Complied with SPC s best practices to produce CPI (to be published before the end of 2016) Formal Employment first report released on quarterly basis starting in December 2015, including the employment index and public sector; Access to the production data for establishments (local kind ofactivity units); Quality and completeness of data for the calculation of regional SNA indicators Business register SPC CPI rebasing, cost of doing business index, cost of industrial production index IMF finance, debt ESCAP - Environment accounts development UNSD energy accounts using the SEEA framework 11
Singapore survey, the results of which are also used to monitor the sector s performance Improved data dissemination with the introduction of mobile app to enable users to access the latest in an effective and userfriendly manner Improved data accessibility with more historical time series data made available to users free-of-charge to facilitate research, analysis and planning wage index Adapted the BPM6 to generate BOP External trade published monthly Joined e-gdds and managed to put together the metadata for the QAF Many of the Core Set of indicators are already an integral part of economic production Rebasing of the national accounts to reference year 2010 and adoption of key recommendations of 2008 SNA e.g. capitalization of R&D expenditures IIP released quarterly in 2014 (from annual basis) Compilation of annual SUTs to improve the quality of the national accounts ASEAN involved in the Working Group on international investment, and the Working Group on international trade in services ADB updating of the PPPs Turkey 12 National Strategy includes the Statistical Law of Turkey of which 22 core indicators meet or exceed recommendation (from 20 in 2013). The two 2008 SNA/ESA 2010 Improvement of quarterly Turkish Statistical Office Twinning Program with Italian MOF Training Programs by
carries the Official Statistical Program (updated every 5 years) The 2017-2021 program will increase the standardization and will use administrative data indicators that improved are assets / liabilities of depository corporations and broad money and credit aggregates 2 indicators below recommendations (from 3 in 2013) wages/earnings data remained below recommendations 8 indicators that are unavailable CPI, external merchandise trade price indices, STIrelated indicators (except fixed investment), labour and supply demand, and natural resources national accounts Business register Administrative data and classifications Central Bank of Turkey Note: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam provided verbal reports at the fifth meeting of the Steering Group, which are not included here. 13