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Economic Statistics in Bhutan1
National Statistical Website: http://www.nsb.gov.bt
World Bank Economic Grouping: Lower middle-income
Coordination
▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics:
2
Population (thousand, 2014): 765.6
GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 5,774 2
Advocacy
○ National Statistics Bureau
▪ National Statistics Development Strategy is being
implemented
▪ In the process of drafting a Statistical Act in order to
impose laws on statistics
▪ Decentralized statistical system
▪ Publication policies in place and available to users/staff
▪ Contact points publicized for each statistical subject
area
▪ Awareness of relevance among users of official
statistics is considered sufficient
International Collaboration
▪ Interested in participating in RPES as both a provider
and a recipient of technical assistance
▪ Partnered with the IMF, JICA, Denmark, UNFPA,
UNICEF and the World Bank
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for
calculating purchasing power parities since 2005
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
National Accounts
Annually
9 months
Balance of Payments
Annually
6 months
Labour Force Survey
Annually
12 months
Household Income/Expenditure Survey
Every 5 years
12 months
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Annually
12 months
Population Census
Every 10 years
6 months
×
Economic Census
N/A
N/A
Agricultural Census
Every 5 years
12 months
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993 (2008 planned)
- ISIC Rev. 3.1 (R.4 planned)
- CPC ver. 1 (v.2 planned)
- COICOP
- COFOG
- BPM6 in plans for BoP
× No quality assessment framework is available, but implementation is planned
Centralized national metadata repository available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata
× Centralized business register not currently in use but planned
× No established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses
× IT systems are not 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 49 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 not considered adequate for producing the Core Set
Staff manuals on statistical processes are available for internal use
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)
Quarterly
Quarterly
Producer price index (PPI)
Quarterly
Quarterly
Commodity price index
Weekly
Monthly
External merchandise trade price indices
Unavailable
Monthly
×
Wages / Earnings data
Annually
Quarterly
●
Labour costs index / Wage index
Annually
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
Monthly
Quarterly
STI – services output
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
STI – consumer demand
Annually
Quarterly
●
STI – fixed investment
Unavailable
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
Annually
Annually
Balance of payments (BOP)
Annually
Quarterly
●
International investment position (IIP)
Unavailable
Annually
×
External debt
Quarterly
Quarterly
Income distribution
Every 10 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
Annually
Quarterly
●
General government debt
Annually
Quarterly
●
Money and Banking
Government
Labour supply and demand
Annually
Annually
Labour Market
Hours worked
Annually
Quarterly
●
Natural Resources and
Environment
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
12
Below Recommendations
13
Unavailable or No Response
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