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Economic Statistics in Kiribati1 National Statistical Website: http://www.spc.int/prism/Country/KI/Stats/ World Bank Economic Grouping: Lower middle-income Coordination ▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ National Statistics Office ○ Customs ○ Finance ▪ Statistics Corporate Plan is being implemented ▪ 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 Population (thousands, 2014): 103.9 2 GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 2,294 2 Advocacy ▪ Publication policies in place and available to users/staff ▪ Contact points are not publicized for each statistical subject area ▪ User consultations are not organized by producers of economic statistics ▪ Awareness of relevance, among users, of official statistics to economic policy making is not considered sufficient and there are no activities in place to improve upon it International Collaboration ▪ Interested in participating in RPES as recipient but not as a provider of technical assistance ▪ Partnered with ABS, SPC, IMF, Japan, and PFTAC ▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities since 2011 Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations National Accounts Frequency Timeliness Annually 12 months Balance of Payments Annually 12 months × Labour Force Survey N/A N/A Household Income/Expenditure Survey Not Specified 12 months × Enterprise/Establishment Survey N/A N/A Population Census Every 10 years 12 months × × Economic Census N/A N/A Agricultural Census N/A N/A Standards/Classifications - SNA 1993 (2008 planned) - ISIC Rev. 3 (Rev. 4 planned) - BoP coherent with BPM6 × Quality assessment framework is not available × Centralized national metadata repository is not available × Centralized business register is not currently used 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 not considered adequate for producing the Core Set ×Documentation of internal processes and staff manuals are not 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) Unavailable Quarterly × Commodity price index Unavailable Monthly × External merchandise trade price indices Unavailable Monthly × Wages / Earnings data Unavailable 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 Unavailable Quarterly × Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output Unavailable Quarterly × STI – services output Unavailable Quarterly × STI – consumer demand Unavailable Quarterly × STI – fixed investment Unavailable Quarterly × STI – inventories Unavailable Quarterly × Economy structure statistics Unavailable Every 5 years × Productivity Unavailable Annually × Integrated national accounts Unavailable Annually × Institutional sector accounts Unavailable Annually × Balance of payments (BOP) Annually Quarterly ● International investment position (IIP) Annually Annually External debt Annually Quarterly ● Income distribution Unavailable Every 5 years × Assets / liabilities of depository corporations Unavailable Monthly × Broad money and credit aggregates Unavailable Monthly × Interest rate statistics Unavailable Monthly × General government operations Annually Quarterly ● General government debt Annually Quarterly ● Money and Banking Government Labour supply and demand Unavailable 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 2 7 Below Recommendations 22 Unavailable or No Response
