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Economic Statistics in French Polynesia1
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National Statistical Website: http://www.ispf.pf
World Bank Economic Grouping: High income
Population (thousands, 2014): 279.8
GDP at current prices (Million USD, 2012): 7,150
Coordination
▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics:
Advocacy
○ Institut de la Statistique de la Polynésie Française
▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality of statistical
information
▪ Semi-centralized statistical system
○ Responsibilities are not clearly defined for agencies
involved in the production of the Core Set
○ Plans are not currently being implemented to improve
coordination of production of economic statistics
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▪ 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 but 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
▪ Not currently involved in any international programmes
aimed at building capacity for economic statistics
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for
calculating purchasing power parities since 2012
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
National Accounts
Annually
60 months
Balance of Payments
Annually
24 months
Labour Force Survey
Every 20 years
24 months
Household Income/Expenditure Survey
Not Specified
12 months
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Quarterly
48 months
Population Census
Every 5 years
12 months
×
Economic Census
N/A
N/A
×
Agricultural Census
N/A
N/A
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993
- ISIC Rev. 4
- CPC ver. 2
- COICOP
- BoP coherent with BPM6
× Quality assessment framework is not available; Centralized national metadata repository is not available
Centralized business register is currently used for multiple statistical products
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
NSDS information for developed countries is not included in the national summary.
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
● 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)
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
Annually
Quarterly
●
GDP (expenditure) nominal and real
Annually
Quarterly
●
External trade – merchandise
Monthly
Monthly
External trade – services
Annually
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
Annually
Annually
Institutional sector accounts
Annually
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
Quarterly
Monthly
●
Broad money and credit aggregates
Quarterly
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
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
11
Below Recommendations
Unavailable or No Response
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