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Economic Statistics in Armenia
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National Statistical Website: http://armstat.am/en/
World Bank Economic Grouping: Lower middle-income
Population (millions, 2014): 3.0
GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 7,374 2
Advocacy
Coordination
▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics:
○ National Statistical Service
○ Central Bank
○ Committee for State Revenue
○ Ministry of Finance
○ Ministry of Agriculture
○ Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources
○ Ministry of Urban Development
○ Ministry of Nature Protection
○ Department of Justice
○ Directorate of General Civil Aviation
▪ National Strategy for the Development of Statistics
in Armenia being designed
▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and
independence of statistical information
▪ Centralized statistical system
○ Responsibilities are clearly defined for agencies
involved in the production of the Core Set
○ Plans are currently being implemented to improve
coordination of production of economic statistics
▪ Publication policies in place and available to
users/staff
▪ Contact points publicized for each statistical
subject area
▪ User consultations are organized by producers of
economic statistics
▪ Awareness of relevance, among users, of official
statistics to economic policy making is considered
sufficient and there are activities in place to
improve upon it
International Collaboration
▪ Interested in participating in RPES as both a
provider and a recipient of technical assistance
▪ Partnered with IMF, EUROSTAT, Statistics Sweden,
Norway, Switzerland, Italy, the World Bank,
UNICEF, UNDP, JICA, FAO, and the United States
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme
for calculating purchasing power parities since 1994
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
National Accounts
Quarterly
2 months
Balance of Payments
Quarterly
1 month
Labour Force Survey
Quarterly
3 months
Household Income / Expenditure Survey
Annually
7 months
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Annually
10 months
Population Census
Every 10 years
4 months
×
×
Economic Census
N/A
N/A
Agricultural Census
Every 10 years
Awaiting first
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993 (2008 planned)
- ISIC Rev. 4
- COICOP
- COFOG
- BoP coherent with BPM6
Quality assessment framework is available; Centralized business register is in use
Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata
× IT systems are not considered adequate for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics
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This national summary was prepared by ESCAP Statistics Division in November, 2013. Results of the Capacity Screening questionnaire were
received in November, 2013 from 50 of the 58 member countries who were contacted. Further information on RPES and the Core Set is available
here: http://www.unescap.org/official-documents/committee-on-statistics/session/2
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ESCAP Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2014: http://www.unescap.org/resources/statistical-yearbook-asia-and-pacific-2014
Technical Skills
× Human resources
Documentation of
are not considered adequate for producing the Core Set
internal processes and staff manuals are available
Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES recommendations
Table Legend
Meet or Exceed Recommendations
Price and Costs
Demand and Output
Income and Wealth
● Below Recommendations
× Unavailable or No Response
Core Indicator
Reported Freq.
RPES recommendations
Consumer price index (CPI)
Monthly
Quarterly
Producer price index (PPI)
Monthly
Quarterly
Commodity price index
No Response
Monthly
×
External merchandise trade price indices
Monthly
Monthly
Wages / Earnings data
Monthly
Quarterly
Labour costs index / Wage index
Annually
Quarterly
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GDP (production) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly
GDP (expenditure) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly
External trade – merchandise
Monthly
Monthly
External trade – services
Monthly
Quarterly
Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output
Monthly
Quarterly
STI – services output
Monthly
Quarterly
STI – consumer demand
Monthly
Quarterly
STI – fixed investment
Monthly
Quarterly
STI – inventories
Quarterly
Quarterly
Economy structure statistics
Every 5 years
Every 5 years
Productivity
Annually
Annually
Integrated national accounts
Annually
Annually
Institutional sector accounts
Annually
Annually
Balance of payments (BOP)
Quarterly
Quarterly
International investment position (IIP)
Quarterly
Annually
External debt
Quarterly
Quarterly
Income distribution
Annually
Every 5 years
Assets / liabilities of depository corporations
Monthly
Monthly
Broad money and credit aggregates
Monthly
Monthly
Interest rate statistics
Daily
Monthly
General government operations
Quarterly
Quarterly
General government debt
Quarterly
Quarterly
Money and Banking
Government
Labour Market
and Natural Resources and
Environment
Labour supply and demand
Quarterly
Annually
Hours worked
Quarterly
Quarterly
Natural resources
Annually
Annually
Summary of Responses to all 31 Indicators in the Core Set (comparison of two columns in the table above)
Meet or Exceed Recommendations
Below Recommendations
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Unavailable or No Response
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