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Economic Statistics in Samoa1 National Statistical Website: http://www.sbs.gov.ws/ World Bank Economic Grouping: Lower middle-income 2 Population (thousands, 2014): 191.8 2 GDP Per Capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 3,936 Advocacy Coordination ▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ Samoa Bureau of Statistics ○ Ministry of Finance ○ Ministry of Revenue ○ Samoa National Prodent Fund ○ Central Bank of Samoa ○ Land Transport Authority ○ Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ○ Immigration Department ▪ Samoa Strategy for the Development of Statistics is being implemented ▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and independence of statistical information ▪ Semi-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 ▪ Undergoing an institutional strengthening project and needs funding for additional professional training ▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities ▪ Partnered with IMF, SPC, StatsNZ, PFTAC, JICA, and UNDP Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations National Accounts Balance of Payments Labour Force Survey Household Income/Expenditure Survey Frequency Timeliness Standards/Classifications Quarterly 3 months - Metadata: IMF-GDDS Quarterly 3 months - SNA 2008 Ad-hoc 12 months - ISIC Rev. 3.1 Every 5 years 12 months - Future plans for CPC ver. 2 × Enterprise/Establishment Survey N/A N/A - COICOP Population Census Every 5 years 12 months - COFOG Economic Census Every 5 years 12 months - BoP coherent with BPM6 Agricultural Census Every 10 years 12 months Quality assessment framework available and follows GDDS guidelines × No centralized national metadata repository available, but statistical releases are accompanied with metadata × Centralized business register not currently in use but planned 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 to be available soon Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES recommendations Table Legend Meet or Exceed Recommendations ● Below Recommendations Core Indicator Reported Freq. Monthly Quarterly Quarterly Commodity price index Unavailable Monthly × External merchandise trade price indices Unavailable Monthly × Wages / Earnings data Unavailable Quarterly × Labour costs index / Wage index Producer price index (PPI) Demand and Output Income and Wealth RPES recommendations Quarterly Consumer price index (CPI) Price and Costs × Unavailable or No Response Unavailable Quarterly × GDP (production) nominal and real Quarterly Quarterly GDP (expenditure) nominal and real Other Quarterly ● External trade – merchandise Quarterly Monthly ● External trade – services Quarterly Quarterly Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output Quarterly 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 Unavailable Annually × Institutional sector accounts Unavailable Annually × Balance of payments (BOP) Quarterly Quarterly International investment position (IIP) Quarterly Annually External debt Quarterly Quarterly Every 5 years Every 5 years Unavailable Monthly × Quarterly Monthly ● Income distribution Assets / liabilities of depository corporations Money and Banking Broad money and credit aggregates Monthly Monthly General government operations Quarterly Quarterly General government debt Quarterly Quarterly Interest rate statistics 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 12 Below Recommendations 3 Unavailable or No Response 16
