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Economic Statistics in Cambodia1
National Statistical Website: http://www.nis.gov.kh/
World Bank Economic Grouping: Low income
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Population (millions, 2014): 15.4
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GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 2,150
Coordination
▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics:
Advocacy
▪ Publication policies in place and available to users/staff
○ National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning
○ Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery
○ Ministry of Economy and Finance
○ Ministry of Commerce
○ Ministry of Labor
○ Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
○ Ministry of Tourism
○ Ministry of Land and Construction
○ National Bank of Cambodia
▪ Statistical Master Plan for Cambodia currently being
implemented
▪ 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
▪ 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, UNFPA, JICA, Statistics Sweden,
Korea, Finland, EUROSTAT, FAO, UNICEF, SCB, and
the United Kingdom
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for
calculating purchasing power parities since 2005
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
National Accounts
Frequency
Timeliness
Annually
3 months
Balance of Payments
Quarterly
3 months
Labour Force Survey
Inconsistent
No Response
Household Income/Expenditure Survey
Annually
No Response
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Other
No Response
Population Census
Every 10 years
No Response
Economic Census
Every 10 years
No Response
Agricultural Census
Every 10 years
No Response
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993
- ISIC Rev. 3.1 (Rev. 4 planned)
- CPC ver. 1.1
- COICOP
- BoP Coherent with BPM6
Quality assessment framework is available and follows IMF guidelines
Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata
× Centralized business register not currently in use nor planned
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
Documentation of internal
considered adequate for producing the Core Set
processes and staff manuals are available
Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES recommendations
Table Legend
Meet or Exceed Recommendations
● Below Recommendations
Core Indicator
Price and Costs
Demand and Output
Income and Wealth
× Unavailable or No Response
Reported Freq.
RPES recommendations
Consumer price index (CPI)
Monthly
Quarterly
Producer price index (PPI)
Ad-Hoc
Quarterly
●
Commodity price index
Monthly
Monthly
External merchandise trade price indices
Unavailable
Monthly
×
Wages / Earnings data
Ad-Hoc
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
Annually
Monthly
●
External trade – services
Annually
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
Annually
Quarterly
●
Economy structure statistics
Every 10 years
Every 5 years
●
Productivity
Unavailable
Annually
×
Integrated national accounts
Annually
Annually
Institutional sector accounts
Unavailable
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
No Response
Monthly
×
Broad money and credit aggregates
No Response
Monthly
×
Interest rate statistics
Unavailable
Monthly
×
General government operations
Annually
Quarterly
●
General government debt
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
Money and Banking
Government
Labour supply and demand
Unavailable
Annually
×
Labour Market
Hours worked
No Response
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
7
Below Recommendations
13
Unavailable or No Response
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