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Economic Statistics in Tonga1 2 National Statistical Website: http://www.spc.int/prism/tonga/ World Bank Economic Grouping: Lower middle-income income Population (thousands, 2014): 105.8 2 GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 4,276 Coordination Advocacy ▪ Agencies involved in 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 ○ Statistics Department ○ Ministry of Finance ○ Reserve Bank of Tonga ○ Ministry of Health ○ Ministry of Education ○ Custom Data ○ Ministry of Revenue Services ○ Ministry of Agriculture ○ Ministry of Commerce, Tourism and Labour ○ Immigration ▪ Tonga Statistics Department Corporate Plan is being implemented ▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and independence of statistical information ▪ Semi-centralized statistical system ○ Plans are currently being implemented to improve coordination of production of economic statistics International Collaboration ▪ Interested in participating in RPES as both a provider and a recipient of technical assistance ▪ Partnered with Stats NZ, SPC, IMF, and Japan ▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities since 2011 Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations National Accounts Frequency Timeliness Annually 9 months Balance of Payments Quarterly 4 months Labour Force Survey Ad-hoc 12 months Household Income/Expenditure Survey Every 5 years 10 months Enterprise/Establishment Survey Quarterly Not Specified Population Census Every 5 years 12 months × Economic Census N/A N/A Agricultural Census Ad-hoc 12 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 not currently used 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 not considered adequate for producing the Core Set Internal processes are documented for reference by new staff 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) Unavailable Quarterly × Commodity price index Unavailable Monthly × External merchandise trade price indices Unavailable Monthly × Wages / Earnings data Annually 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 Monthly Monthly External trade – services Unavailable Quarterly × Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output Quarterly Quarterly STI – services output Quarterly 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 Annually Annually Balance of payments (BOP) Quarterly Quarterly International investment position (IIP) Quarterly Annually External debt Annually Quarterly ● Income distribution Unavailable Every 5 years × Assets / liabilities of depository corporations Quarterly Monthly ● Broad money and credit aggregates Quarterly Monthly ● Interest rate statistics Monthly Monthly General government operations Annually Quarterly ● General government debt Annually Quarterly ● Money and Banking 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 9 Below Recommendations 8 Unavailable or No Response 14
