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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Economic Statistics in Azerbaijan 2 National Statistical Website: http://www.stat.gov.az Population (millions, 2014): 9.5 World Bank Economic Grouping: Upper middle-income GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 8,860 2 Advocacy ▪ 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 Coordination ▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan Republic ○ Central Bank of Azerbaijan ○ Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Azerbaijan ○ Ministry of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan ○ The State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan ▪ National Strategic Plan being implemented ▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and independence of statistical information ▪ Centralized statistical system ○ Responsibilities are not clearly defined for agencies involved in the production of the Core Set ○ No current plans to improve coordination of production of economic statistics International Collaboration ▪ No confirmation of interest in participating in RPES as either a provider or a recipient of technical assistance ▪ Partnered with IMF, EUROSTAT, the World Bank, Japan, SESRIC, Turkey, UNFPA, and UNICEF ▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities since 1996 Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations Frequency Timeliness National Accounts Quarterly 1 month Balance of Payments Quarterly 2.5 months Labour Force Survey Quarterly 1 month Household Income / Expenditure Survey Quarterly 1 month Enterprise/Establishment Survey Quarterly 1 month Population Census Every 10 years 12 months Economic Census Undefined 12 months Agricultural Census Every 5 years 12 months Standards/Classifications - SNA 1993 (2008 planned) - NACE Rev. 2 - Product classification based on CPA 2008 - COICOP - COFOG Quality assessment framework is available and used to monitor the quality of economic statistics outputs Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata Centralized business register is in use Established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses IT systems are considered adequate for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics 1 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 2 ESCAP Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2014: http://www.unescap.org/resources/statistical-yearbook-asia-and-pacific-2014 Technical Skills Human resources are considered adequate for producing the Core Set Documentation of 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 Monthly Monthly External merchandise trade price indices Monthly Monthly Wages / Earnings data Monthly Quarterly Labour costs index / Wage index No Response Quarterly × GDP (production) nominal and real Monthly Quarterly GDP (expenditure) nominal and real Quarterly Quarterly External trade – merchandise Monthly Monthly External trade – services Quarterly Quarterly Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output Monthly Quarterly STI – services output Monthly Quarterly STI – consumer demand Quarterly Quarterly STI – fixed investment Monthly Quarterly STI – inventories Unavailable Quarterly × Economy structure statistics Annually 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) Unavailable Annually × External debt Other Quarterly ● Income distribution Annually Every 5 years Assets / liabilities of depository corporations Monthly Monthly Broad money and credit aggregates Monthly Monthly Interest rate statistics Monthly Monthly General government operations Annually Quarterly ● Money and Banking Government General government debt Annually Quarterly ● Labour supply and demand Annually Annually Labour Market Hours worked Quarterly Quarterly Natural Resources and Environment Natural resources Unavailable Annually × Summary of Responses to all 31 Indicators in the Core Set (comparison of two columns in the table above) Meet or Exceed Recommendations 24 Below Recommendations Unavailable or No Response 3 4
