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Economic Statistics in Russia: development and new challenges. for International Forum on Monitoring National Development (Beijing, 27-29 September 2011). 1. Some advantages and disadvantages of Soviet statistical system. Disadvantages Concentrated on monitoring of plan
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Economic Statistics in Russia: development and new challenges for International Forum on Monitoring National Development (Beijing, 27-29 September 2011) 1
Some advantages and disadvantages of Soviet statistical system Disadvantages • Concentrated on monitoring of plan • Non-harmonised methodology • Isolated and closed system; not oriented to broad audience • Only total surveys or censuses • No observation on some core areas (unemployment, inflation, SNA…) Advantages • Strictly centralized system • Unified methodology • Sound technological base • Highly skilled and qualified personnel
Instruments of Statistical System Reform • 4 Federal programs of development of state statistical system+ 2 World bank projects • Topical projects with UN organizations • 6 EU technical assistance programs • Observance of IMF standards • OECD pre-accession • Cooperation with NSIs – learning experience
Demands of users • value added and its dynamics by types of economic activity • financial account data and balance sheets • accounts and balanced tables by institutional sectors and economic subsectors • GDP dynamics by double deflation method • input-output tables following SNA methodology • non-financial assets basing on current market value
SNA challenges(OECD and IMF recommendations) • gross value added and its components according to NACE • households final consumption by type of production or by purpose according to COICOP • current transactions accounts by sectors of non-financial and financial corporations • rent evaluation, the closest to SNA-93 methodology • labor costs by type of employment consistent with output data and value added by kinds of activity • financial account
2011 input-output tables • table “Resources of goods and services” • tables of goods and services use with separate tables for domestic and foreign products use • symmetrical input-output table • Published tables. Basic input-output tables (188 sectors and 338 product groups) • Working tables. Results of sample surveys and “supply and use” indicators (298 sectors and 642 product groups)
Business Statistics • Business Register • Business Demography • Identification of economically active units and small enterprises • Better use of administrative data in official statistics • Integration with SNA