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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Economic Statistics in American Samoa1 2 National Statistical Website: http://www.spc.int/prism/country/as/stats/ Population (thousands, 2014): 55.3 World Bank Economic Grouping: Upper middle-income GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2014): (no data) 2 Advocacy Coordination ▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ Department of Commerce – Statistics Division ▪ No current plans to implement a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics ▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and independence of statistical information ▪ Decentralized statistical system ○ Responsibilities are not clearly defined for agencies involved in the production of the Core Set ○ No plans are currently being implemented to improve coordination of production of economic statistics ▪No publication policies for statistical dissemination ▪ There are no user consultations 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 a recipient but not as a provider of technical assistance ▪ Partnered with SPC and the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis ▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities since 2011 Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations Frequency National Accounts Annually Timeliness No Response × Balance of Payments N/A N/A Labour Force Survey No Response No Response Household Income / Expenditure Survey Every 5 years No Response Enterprise/Establishment Survey No Response No Response Population Census Every 10 years >24 months Economic Census Other >24 months Agricultural Census Every 10 years >24 months Standards/Classifications - US methodology for national accounts - North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Quality assessment framework is available and used to monitor the quality of economic statistics outputs × Centralized business register is not currently used × No established methods for identifying ‘births’ or ‘deaths’ of businesses 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 × No documentation of internal processes or 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) Quarterly 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 Annually Annually Institutional sector accounts Unavailable Annually × Balance of payments (BOP) Unavailable 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 × Money and Banking Government General government operations Annually Quarterly ● General government debt Annually Quarterly ● 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 5 Below Recommendations 24 Unavailable or No Response
