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Economic Statistics in Thailand1 National Statistical Website: http://www.nso.go.th/ World Bank Economic Grouping: Upper middle-income income 2 Population (millions, 2014): 67.2 2 GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 8,463 Advocacy Coordination ▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ National Statistical Office ○ Bank of Thailand ○ National Economic and Social Development Board ○ Ministry of Finance ○ Ministry of Commerce ○ Ministry of Industry ○ Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives ○ Ministry of Labor ▪ National Statistical Master Plan is being implemented ▪ 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, FAO, Japan, UNDP, and UNFPA ▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities since 2005 Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations National Accounts Frequency Timeliness Quarterly 2 months Quarterly 2 months Balance of Payments Labour Force Survey Monthly 1 month Household Income/Expenditure Survey Annually 6 months Enterprise/Establishment Survey Quarterly 2 months Population Census Every 10 years 3 months Economic Census Every 10 years 6 months Agricultural Census Every 10 years 3 months Standards/Classifications - SNA 2008 - ISIC Rev. 4 - CPC ver. 2 - COICOP - COFOG - BoP coherent with BPM6 Quality assessment framework is available and used to monitor the quality of economic statistics outputs × Centralized national metadata repository is not available Centralized business register is currently used for multiple statistical products Established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses × IT systems are not 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 Monthly Monthly External merchandise trade price indices Monthly Monthly Wages / Earnings data Quarterly Quarterly Labour costs index / Wage index Annually 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 Monthly Quarterly STI – services output Monthly Quarterly STI – consumer demand Monthly Quarterly STI – fixed investment Monthly Quarterly STI – inventories Monthly Quarterly Economy structure statistics Every 10 years Every 5 years ● Productivity Quarterly Annually Integrated national accounts Annually Annually Institutional sector accounts Other Annually ● Balance of payments (BOP) Quarterly Quarterly International investment position (IIP) Annually Annually External debt Quarterly Quarterly Income distribution Every 2 years 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 Monthly Quarterly Money and Banking Government Labour supply and demand Monthly Annually Labour Market Hours worked Monthly 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 Below Recommendations 27 Unavailable or No Response 3 1