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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Economic Statistics in Tajikistan 2 National Statistical Website: http://www.stat.tj/ World Bank Economic Grouping: Low-income Population (millions, 2014): 8.4 2 GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 1,920 Coordination Advocacy ▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ Statistical Agency under the President of Tajikistan ○ Ministry of Finance of the RoT ○ National Bank of Tajikistan ▪ National Strategy for the Development of Statistics currently being designed ▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and independence of statistical information ▪Decentralized 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 IMF, JICA, Statistics Sweden, SESRIC, the World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, GIZ, Turkey, and the United Kingdom Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations Frequency Timeliness National Accounts Annually 12 months Balance of Payments Quarterly 4 months Labour Force Survey Semi-annually 12 months Household Income/Expenditure Survey Quarterly 5 months Enterprise/Establishment Survey Quarterly 12 months Population Census Every 10 years 7 months Economic Census Undefined 10 months Agricultural Census Every 10 years No Response Standards/Classifications - SNA 1993 (2008 planned) - ISIC Rev. 2 (Rev. 4 planned) - Classification designed by CIS - COICOP - BoP coherent with BPM6 Quality assessment framework is available Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata Centralized business register is in use and shared by a number of agencies in the national statistical system Established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘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 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 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) Monthly Quarterly Commodity price index Unavailable Monthly × External merchandise trade price indices Unavailable Monthly × Wages / Earnings data Monthly Quarterly Labour costs index / Wage index Monthly Quarterly GDP (production) nominal and real Monthly Quarterly GDP (expenditure) nominal and real Annually Quarterly ● External trade – merchandise Weekly Monthly External trade – services Monthly Quarterly Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output Monthly Quarterly STI – services output No Response Quarterly × STI – consumer demand No Response Quarterly × STI – fixed investment Monthly Quarterly STI – inventories No Response Quarterly × Economy structure statistics Quarterly Every 5 years Productivity No Response Annually × Integrated national accounts Annually Annually Institutional sector accounts Unavailable Annually × Balance of payments (BOP) Quarterly Quarterly International investment position (IIP) Weekly Annually External debt Quarterly Quarterly Income distribution No Response Every 5 years × Assets / liabilities of depository corporations No Response Monthly × Broad money and credit aggregates Quarterly Monthly ● Interest rate statistics Quarterly Monthly ● Money and Banking Government Labour Market Natural Resources and Environment General government operations Monthly Quarterly General government debt Quarterly Quarterly Labour supply and demand Ad-hoc Annually ● Hours worked Monthly Quarterly Natural resources No Response Annually × Summary of Responses to all 31 Indicators in the Core Set (comparison of two columns in the table above) Meet or Exceed Recommendations 17 Below Recommendations 4 Unavailable or No Response 10