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Economic Statistics in Kazakhstan
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National Statistical Website: http://www.stat.kz
World Bank Economic Grouping: Upper middle-income
Population (millions, 2014): 16.6
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GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 12,360
Coordination
Advocacy
▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics:
○ The Agency of Statistics of the Republic of
Kazakhstan
○ The National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan
○ The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of
Kazakhstan
▪ Statistical Master Plan 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
▪ Publication policies in place and available to
users/staff
▪ 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 the World Bank for strengthening the
national statistical system
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for
calculating purchasing power parities since 1994
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
National Accounts
Quarterly
3 months
Balance of Payments
Quarterly
3 months
Labour Force Survey
Quarterly
1.5 months
Household Income / Expenditure Survey
Quarterly
2.4 months
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Quarterly
Not specified
Population Census
Every 10 years
8 months
×
Economic Census
N/A
N/A
Agricultural Census
Not Specified
Not Specified
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993 (2008 planned)
- NACE Rev. 2
- CPA 2008
- COICOP
- COFOG
Quality assessment framework is available and used to monitor the quality of economic statistics outputs
Centralized national metadata repository is not available but statistical releases are accompanied with metadata
Centralized business register is in use
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
Technical Skills
Human resources are considered adequate for producing the Core Set
Documentation of internal processes and staff manuals are 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)
Monthly
Quarterly
Commodity price index
No Response
Monthly
×
External merchandise trade price indices
Monthly
Monthly
Wages / Earnings data
Monthly
Quarterly
Labour costs index / Wage index
Monthly
Quarterly
GDP (production) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly
GDP (expenditure) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly
External trade – merchandise
Monthly
Monthly
External trade – services
Monthly
Quarterly
Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output
Ad-hoc
Quarterly
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STI – services output
Ad-hoc
Quarterly
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STI – consumer demand
Ad-hoc
Quarterly
●
STI – fixed investment
Ad-hoc
Quarterly
●
STI – inventories
Ad-hoc
Quarterly
●
Economy structure statistics
Quarterly
Every 5 years
Productivity
Quarterly
Annually
Integrated national accounts
Quarterly
Annually
Institutional sector accounts
Quarterly
Annually
Balance of payments (BOP)
Quarterly
Quarterly
International investment position (IIP)
Quarterly
Annually
External debt
Quarterly
Quarterly
Income distribution
Quarterly
Every 5 years
Assets / liabilities of depository corporations
Monthly
Monthly
Broad money and credit aggregates
Monthly
Monthly
Interest rate statistics
Daily
Monthly
General government operations
Monthly
Quarterly
General government debt
Quarterly
Quarterly
Money and Banking
Government
Labour supply and demand
Quarterly
Annually
Labour Market
Hours worked
Monthly
Quarterly
Natural Resources and
Environment
Natural resources
Ad-hoc
Annually
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Summary of Responses to all 31 Indicators in the Core Set (comparison of two columns in the table above)
Meet or Exceed Recommendations
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Below Recommendations
Unavailable or No Response
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