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Economic Statistics in Bangladesh1
National Statistical Website: http://www.bbs.gov.bd/
World Bank Economic Grouping: Low income
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Population (millions, 2014): 158.5
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GDP Per Capita (2005 PPP): 1,622
Advocacy
Coordination
▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics:
○ Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
○ Bangladesh Bank
▪ National Strategy for the Development of
Statistics currently being designed
▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and
independence of statistical information
▪Semi-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 a recipient but
not as a provider of technical assistance
▪ Partnered with the World Bank, IMF, JICA,
EUROSTAT, FAO, UNICEF, and ADB
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for
calculating purchasing power parities since 1993
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
National Accounts
Annually
9 months
Balance of Payments
Monthly
1 month
Labour Force Survey
Every 3-5 years
6 months
Household Income/Expenditure Survey
Every 5 years
6 months
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Every 5 years
6 months
Population Census
Every 10 years
3 months
Economic Census
Every 10 years
3 months
Agricultural Census
Every 10 years
3 months
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993
- ISIC Rev. 4
- CPC ver. 1.1 (ver. 2
planned)
- COICOP
- COFOG
- BoP coherent with BPM6
× Quality assessment framework is not available but is planned
Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata
Centralized business register is in use and shared by a number of agencies in the national statistical system
Established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses
IT systems are 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 are not 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)
Quarterly
Quarterly
Commodity price index
Unavailable
Monthly
×
External merchandise trade price indices
Monthly
Monthly
Wages / Earnings data
Monthly
Quarterly
Labour costs index / Wage index
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
GDP (production) nominal and real
Annually
Quarterly
●
GDP (expenditure) nominal and real
Annually
Quarterly
●
External trade – merchandise
Monthly
Monthly
External trade – services
Monthly
Quarterly
Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output
Annually
Quarterly
●
STI – services output
Annually
Quarterly
●
STI – consumer demand
Annually
Quarterly
●
STI – fixed investment
Annually
Quarterly
●
STI – inventories
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
Economy structure statistics
Every 10 years
Every 5 years
●
Productivity
Unavailable
Annually
×
Integrated national accounts
Annually
Annually
Institutional sector accounts
Ad-hoc
Annually
●
Balance of payments (BOP)
Monthly
Quarterly
International investment position (IIP)
Monthly
Annually
External debt
Annually
Quarterly
●
Income distribution
Every 3 years
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
Monthly
Quarterly
General government debt
Quarterly
Quarterly
Money and Banking
Government
Labour supply and demand
Every 3 years
Annually
●
Labour Market
Hours worked
Unavailable
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
15
Below Recommendations
10
Unavailable or No Response
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