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Economic Statistics in Brunei Darussalam1
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National Statistical Website: www.depd.gov.bn/dept_dos.html Population (thousands, 2014): 423.2
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World Bank Economic Grouping: High income
GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 45,979
Coordination
Advocacy
▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics:
○ Department of Economic Planning and Development,
Prime Minister’s Office
▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality of statistical
information
▪ Centralized statistical system
○ 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 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 both a provider
and a recipient of technical assistance
▪ Partnered with ADB
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for
calculating purchasing power parities since 2005
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
National Accounts
Quarterly
3 months
Balance of Payments
Annually
6 months
Labour Force Survey
Every 5 years
6 months
Household Income/Expenditure Survey
Every 5 years
24 months
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Quarterly
3 months
Population Census
Every 10 years
9 months
Economic Census
Every 5 years
12 months
×
Agricultural Census
N/A
N/A
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993 (2008 planned)
- ISIC Rev. 4
- CPC ver. 2
- COICOP
- COFOG
- BoP coherent with BPM5,
with plans to upgrade to BPM6
× Quality assessment framework is not available
× Centralized national metadata repository is not available
Centralized business register is currently used for multiple statistical products
× No established methods for identifying ‘births’ or ‘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
NSDS information for developed countries is not included in the national summary.
Technical Skills
Human resources are 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
Annually
Quarterly
●
Labour costs index / Wage index
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
GDP (production) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly
GDP (expenditure) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly
External trade – merchandise
Monthly
Monthly
External trade – services
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output
Quarterly
Quarterly
STI – services output
Quarterly
Quarterly
STI – consumer demand
Quarterly
Quarterly
STI – fixed investment
Quarterly
Quarterly
STI – inventories
Quarterly
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)
Unavailable
Annually
×
External debt
Unavailable
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
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
General government debt
Unavailable
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
9
2
Below Recommendations
Unavailable or No Response
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