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Economic Statistics in Russia: Economic Statistics in Russia: development and new challengesdevelopment and new challenges

for International Forum on for International Forum on Monitoring National Monitoring National

DevelopmentDevelopment

(Beijing, 27-29 September 2011)

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Some advantages and disadvantages of Soviet statistical system

Advantages

• Strictly centralized system

• Unified methodology

• Sound technological base

• Highly skilled and qualified personnel

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…)

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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

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Implementation of SNA-93Annual Quarter

Accounts, tables and indicators Consoli-dated

By sector Consoli-

dated By sector

Goods and services account + + + - Production account + + + - Generation of income account + + + - Primary income distribution account + + + -

Secondary income distribution account + + + - Use of disposable income account + + + - Use of adjusted disposable income account + + + - Capital transactions account + + + - Re-estimation account - - - - Other changes in assets account - - - -

Financial Account - - - - Balance of assets and liabilities - - - - GDP by three methods in current and constant prices + + + +

Available Planned before 2017 Planned after 2017

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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

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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

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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)

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ClassificationsRussian Classification International

Classification

1 Classification of Kinds of Economic Activity NACE Rev. 1.1

2 Nomenclature of Goods for Foreign Economic Activity

HS-1996

3 Classification of Products by Kinds of Economic Activity

СРА-2002

4 Classification of Individual Household Consumption by Purpose

COICOP

5 Classification Institutional Units by Sector SNA-93

6 Classification of Occupations ISCO-88

7 Classification of Professions by Education ISCED-1997

8 Russian edition of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems

ICD-10

9 Classification of currency ISO 4217

10 Classification of Countries of the World ISO 3166

11 Classification of Measurement Units ISO 31/0

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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

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