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Economic Statistics in Marshall Islands1 National Statistical Website: http://www.spc.int/prism/country/mh/stats/ World Bank Economic Grouping: lower middle-income 2 Population (thousands, 2014): 52.8 2 GDP Per Capita (2005 PPP, 2012): (no data) Coordination Advocacy ▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ Economic Policy, Planning and Statistics Office ○ Immigration Office ▪ No current plans to implement a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics ▪ 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 are not in place ▪ 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 considered sufficient and there are 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 the Australian Bureau of Statistics ▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities since 2011 Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations National Accounts Balance of Payments Labour Force Survey × × × × Household Income/Expenditure Survey Enterprise/Establishment Survey Population Census Economic Census Agricultural Census Frequency Timeliness Annually Annually Ad-hoc N/A N/A Ad-hoc N/A N/A 12 months 12 months 12 months N/A N/A 12 months N/A N/A Standards/Classifications - American standards for SNA, industrial classification, and product classification - BoP coherent with BPM6 × Quality assessment framework is not available × Centralized national metadata repository is not available × 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 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 ● Below Recommendations Core Indicator Reported Freq. Quarterly Quarterly Unavailable Quarterly × Commodity price index Unavailable Monthly × External merchandise trade price indices Unavailable Monthly × Annually Quarterly ● Wages / Earnings data Labour costs index / Wage index Demand and Output 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 × Annually Every 5 years Unavailable Annually × Economy structure statistics Productivity Income and Wealth RPES recommendations Producer price index (PPI) Consumer price index (CPI) Price and Costs × Unavailable or No Response Integrated national accounts Annually Annually Institutional sector accounts Annually Annually Balance of payments (BOP) Annually Quarterly ● Unavailable Annually × International investment position (IIP) External debt Annually Quarterly ● Unavailable Every 5 years × Assets / liabilities of depository corporations Annually Monthly ● Broad money and credit aggregates Annually Monthly ● Interest rate statistics Annually Monthly ● General government operations Annually Quarterly ● General government debt Annually Quarterly ● Income distribution Money and Banking Government Labour supply and demand Labour Market Hours worked Natural Resources and Environment Natural resources Unavailable Annually × No Response Quarterly × 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 4 11 Below Recommendations Unavailable or No Response 16
