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MALDIVES
Project Support meeting for the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics
Bangkok, November 2016
Strengthening the NSS of Maldives –project
progress
• Scoping mission fielded by ESCAP to Maldives from 19-22 October
2015
• Based of findings from scoping mission a proposal for a forwardlooking review to develop NSS was carried out from 22-26 May 2016
(review team included members from ESCAP,UNSD and NSO
Mongolia)
• Review questionnaire was developed by the team was completed by
NBS in coordination with relevant agencies in the NSS of Maldives and
sent to ESCAP prior to the mission’ s arrival in May 2016
• Review team met with stakeholder agencies and completed the prefilled questionnaire and collected additional information and
documents during the review mission
Ongoing activities
• Review report and recommendations currently under preparation by
review team
Focus of the review:
Analyze legislation, Human Resource management, data production and dissemination policies,
implementation of FPOS and other operating procedures
Technical in-depth review on the improvement of economic statistics, with specific
recommendations within the monitoring requirements of SDGs
Provide recommendations for the modernization of statistics production and dissemination
Contents of the review tool/questionnaire
• LEGAL SETTING
• 1.1. Protection of professional
independence
• 1.2. Mandate for data collection
• 1.3. Census-related legislation
• 1.4. Other legislation affecting
statistics
• 1.5. Data security and statistical
confidentiality
•
• NATIONAL SYSTEM OF OFFICIAL
STATISTICS (NSOS)
• 2.1. Structure of the system
• 2.2. National statistical programming
/ planning
• 2.3. System coordination
mechanisms
• NATIONAL BUREAU OF
STATISTICS OF THE MALDIVES
• 3.1. The mission statement of
the NBS
• 3.2. The organization of the
NBS and the organizational
chart
• 3.3. Resource management
• 3.4. Internal and external
monitoring of quality and
performance
• 3.5. Dissemination policy of
the national statistics system
• 3.6. Relations with main
stakeholders
• 3.7. International cooperation
Contents of the review tool/questionnaire (cont.)
• ECONOMIC STATISTICS PRODUCTION AND
DISSEMINATION
4.1. General questions for economic statistics /
Data sources / Registers and surveys
4.2. Prices and costs
• 4.2.1. Consumer price index and other price
indexes for the final demand categories, in
order to monitor price change in key
markets and their impact on different
groups in the economy
• 4.2.2. Producer / product price measures
sufficient to analyze the causes of price
changes and the price links in the product
supply chain, e.g. producer price index,
commodity price index
• 4.2.3. Average labour costs and earnings
• 4.2.4. Unit labour and wage costs
• 4.2.5. Terms of trade
• 4.2.6. Exchange rates/purchasing power
parities (PPPs)
4.3 Demand and output
•
4.3.1. GDP production and expenditure accounts, in
current and constant prices, to measure demand and
supply
•
4.3.2. External trade
•
4.3.3. Short-term industry output measures
•
4.3.4. Industrial structure statistics
•
4.3.5. Short term, disaggregated demand statistics
(consumer, investment – fixed and inventory)
•
4.3.6. Productivity measures
4.4. Income and wealth
•
4.4.1. National accounts for the economy, to measure
income, savings, investment, accumulation and wealth
•
4.4.2. National accounts by sector to measure income
redistribution, sector income, savings, accumulation,
financial investment etc. [minimum sectors: household,
government, enterprises]
•
4.4.3. Balance of payments to measure international
income and capital flows
•
4.4.4. International investment position, to measure the
nation’s overseas net debt
•
4.4.5. External debt statistics
•
4.4.6. Income and wealth distribution statistics
Contents of the review tool/questionnaire (cont.)
4.5. Money and banking
• 4.5.1. Assets / liabilities of the banking system
•
4.5.2. Monetary measures
•
4.5.3. Interest rates
4.6. Government
• 4.6.1 Revenue and expenditure, borrowing and
lending
•
4.6.2 Government accounts on a SNA and/or GFS
basis
4.7. Labour market
• 4.7.1. Labour supply and characteristics of the
labour force
• 4.7.2. Labour/skills demand, employment,
unemployment, hours worked, underemployment,
employment in the formal/informal sectors
• 4.7.3. Job creation and vacancies
4.8. Multi-domain statistics (to be covered in the
scope of economic statistics compilation)
4.8.1. Tourism statistics
4.8.2. Agriculture and fishing statistics
Review will feed into
• Current NSDS (from 1999 to 2019) resulting in its revision
• Development of a National Economic Statistics Development Plan
PLANS TO MAINTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN
CAPACITY
• Plan to finish the report finalization as soon as possible, hopefully
during December or Jan
• Start implementing the recommendations highlighted by the review
team
• Prepare proposals for a project under the resource facility for specific
areas of economic statistics that is of high priority
PLANS TO PROGRESS THE PROJECT
• Start work on development of a National Economic Statistics
Development Plan
• Come up with a revised NSDS which accommodates the needs of SDG
data requirements and capacity building needs and action plans
LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE PROJECT
• Delays in completion of assessment led to delay in remaining
activities, which is dependent on the review
Thank you