RPES at the national level: Mongolia Implementation of the RPES

Fifth meeting of the Steering Group for the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics
Review implementation of the
RPES at the national level:
Mongolia
B.Badamtsetseg, NRSO of Mongolia
Implementation of the RPES
1. Advocacy and Co-ordination
2. Progress made to improve statistical capacity and
production
3. The domains of the Core Set of economic statistics
that needs most assistance
4. Technical cooperation projects or programmes on
economic statistics
5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics
for SDG monitoring
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Advocacy and Co-ordination
The implementation of economic statistics was the integral part of the NSDS.
NSDS (2016-2020)
NSDS (2011-2015)
approved by Parliament
to be approved by Parliament
Action plan (2011-2015)
Action plan (2016-2020)
approved by Statistical Consul
to be approved by Statistical Consul
Annual work plan (yearly basis)
Annual work plan (yearly basis)
approved by NSO chairman
to be approved by NRSO chairman
- NSDS: 7 target, 23 sub-target, 160 activities
implemented
- Of which implemented 40 activities related to
economic and environmental statistics.
- Global assessment
- NSDS: 6 target, 25 sub-target, 163 activities .
- 50 activities related to economic and environmental
statistics
- SDG
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2. Progress to improve statistical capacity & production
•
The core set of economic statistics: Availability of Core set of Economic
Statistics /ESCAP/
Series
Prices and Costs
Demand and Output
Income and Wealth
Money and Banking
Government
Labour market
Natural resources and the
environment
Total
ESCAP
Mongolia
6
11
6
3
2
2
6
11
6
3
2
1
Incorporated
indicators in
NSDS, Mongolia
3
9
2
3
3
2
1
31
0
29
1
23
Unavailable indicators: hours worked, natural resources
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2
2. Progress to improve statistical capacity & production
• Statistical infrastructure has been improved:
Key Collections/compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
Notes

National Accounts
Annually
5 months
GDP –quarterly

Balance of Payments
Quarterly
2 months

Labour Force Survey
Quarterly
2 months

Household Income/Exp. Survey
Quarterly
2 months

Enterprise/ establishment survey
Annually
4 months

Population Census
Every 10 years
12 months
Inter-census for 2015

Economic Census
Every 5 years
7 months
Enterprise/ establishment census
for 2015-2016

Agricultural Census
Every 10 years
8 months
Livestock census – annually; Intercensus for 2015-2016 (surveys: yield
of agricultural productivity, PPI,
survey on costs for agri.activities)
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2. Progress to improve statistical capacity & production
Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES
recommendations:
Price and Costs
Money and Banking
Government
Labour market
Core indicator
Reported Freq.
RPES
recommendations
Consumer price index (CPI)
Monthly
Quarterly

Producer price index (PPI)
Quarterly
Quarterly

Commodity price indices (agriculture)
Monthly
Monthly

External merchandise trade price indices
Quarterly
Monthly
*
Wages /Earnings data
Quarterly
Quarterly

Labour cost index / Wage index
Annually
Quarterly
*
Assets/ liabilities of depository corporations
Monthly
Monthly

Broad money and credit aggregates
Monthly
Monthly

Interest rate statistics
Monthly
Monthly

General government operations
Monthly
Quarterly

General government debt
Quarterly
Quarterly

Annually

Quarterly
x
Labour supply and demand
Hours worked
 meet or exceed recommendations
Unavailable
* below recommendations
x unavailable or no response
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2. Progress to improve statistical capacity & production
Demand and Output
Core indicator
Reported
Freq.
RPES
recommendations
GDP (production) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly

GDP (expenditure) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly

External trade – merchandise
Monthly
Monthly

External trade – services
Quarterly
Quarterly

Short term indicators (STI) - industry output
Monthly
Quarterly

STI - services output
Quarterly
Quarterly

STI – consumer demand
Quarterly
Quarterly

STI – fixed investment
Quarterly
Quarterly

STI - inventories
Quarterly
Quarterly

Economy structure statistics
Every 5 years
Every 5 years

Productivity
Annually
Annually

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2. Progress to improve statistical capacity & production
Income and Wealth
Core indicator
Reported Freq.
RPES
recommendations
Integrated national accounts
Annually
Annually

Institutional sector accounts
Annually
Annually

Balance of payments (BOP)
Quarterly
Quarterly

International investment positions (IIP)
Quarterly
Annually

External debt
Quarterly
Quarterly

Income distribution
Every 5 years
Every 5 years

Natural Resources
Annually
Annually

Natural Resources and
Environment
 meet or exceed recommendations /28/
* below recommendations /2/
x unavailable or no response /1/
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2. Progress to improve statistical capacity & production
• Scope of the implementation of the SNA – Milestone
Milestone 1
• Basic indicators of GDP
Milestone 2
• GNI and other primary indicators
Milestone 3
• Institutional sector accounts (first step: production accounts for all
sectors; other accounts for General Gov.)
Milestone 4
• Institutional sector accounts (intermediate step 1: current & capital
accounts for all institutional sectors )
Milestone 5
• Institutional sector accounts (intermediate step 2: financial accounts for
all institutional sectors)
Milestone 6
• Institutional sector accounts (final step: other changes in assets
account & balance sheet for all institutional sectors)
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3. The domains of the Core Set of economic statistics
that needs most assistance
•
•
•
•
Quality assurance framework
Metadata
Labour: hours worked
Natural resources
10
5
4. Technical cooperation projects or programmes
on economic statistics
• “Smart government” project, loans from World Bank,
2016-2019
• Trust fund project, World Bank, 2016-2017
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics
for SDG monitoring
Economic statistics in SDG
 From 17 goals of SDG, 13 goals are contained economic statistics indicators.
 86 or about 36% of SDG indicators (241) are involved to the economic statistics.
Goal
code
Goal name
1 No poverty
2 Zero hunger
Good health and
3 well being
4 Quality education
5 Gender equality
Clean water and
6 sanitaion
Affordable and clean
7 energy
Decent work and
8 economic growth
Industry, innovation
9 and infrastucture
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14
Of which:
related to
economy
2
9
26
11
14
-
11
-
6
4
17
14
15 Life on land
Peace, justice and strong
16 institutions
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17 Partnerships for the goals
Number of
indicators
12
Number of
indicators
Of which:
related to
economy
11
6
15
4
13
7
9
2
14 Life below water
10
1
14
-
23
2
25
25
Goal
code
Goal name
10 Reduced inequalities
Sustainable cities and
11 communities
Responsible
consumption and
12 production
13 Climate action
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics
for SDG monitoring
 Generally, core set of economic statistic’s indicators are included in the related
goals of SDG.
Goal
code
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Core set of economic statistics
Money
Govern- Labour
and
ment
market
banking
Goal name Prices and Demand Income and
costs and output
wealth
Natural resources
and the
Environment
Poverty
Hunger
Health
Education
Gender
Water
Energy
Economic
Infrastructure
Equalities
Urban
Consumption
Climate
Ocean
Forest
Justice
Partnership
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics
for SDG monitoring
Core set economic statistics in SDG
 From Category of Price and costs statistics, 1 indicator (Wages/earnings) are
included in the SDG.
Category of statistic
In SDG ?
Related
Goal
Indicators
Price and costs
Consumer price index
N
-
-
Producer price index
N
-
-
Commodity price index
External merchandise trade price
indexes
N
-
-
N
-
-
Wages/Earnings data
Y
8, 10
10.4.1, 8.5.1
Labour cost index/Wage index
N
-
-
Exchange rates
N
-
-
Purchasing power parities
N
-
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Core set economic statistics in SDG
 All of 6 indicators of category of Demand and output statistics are included
in the related goals of SDG.
Category of statistic
In SDG ?
Related
Goal
Indicators
Demand and output
GDP, (production), real and nominal
Y
GDP, (expenditure), real and nominal
Y
External trade-merchandise
Y
External trade -services
Short term indicator
STI-consumer demand
Y
STI-fixed investment
Y
STI-inventories
Productivity
Y
7.3.1, 7.b.1,
8.1.1, 8.2.1, 8.4.1, 8.4.2,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
9.2.1, 9.5.1, 10.4.1, 11.5.2,
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12.2.1, 12.2.2, 12.2.c,
17.1.1, 17.3.2
2, 10, 17
2.b.2, 10.a.1, 17.4.1, 17.10.1,
17.11.1
1.b.1, 2.a.1, 7.b.1,
1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 11, 17 9.1.2, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.3, 9.3.1,
9.3.2, 9.b.1, 10.b.1, 11.4.1,
17.3.1
2, 8, 10
2.3.1, 8.2.1, 10.4.1
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics
for SDG monitoring
Core set economic statistics in SDG
 All of 6 indicators of category of Income and wealth are incorporated in the
related goals of SDG.
Category of statistic
Income and wealth
Integrated national accounts for the
total economy
In SDG ?
Goal
Related
Indicators
Y
17
17.13.1
Institutional sector accounts
Y
17
17.13.1
Balance of payments
Y
7, 10, 11, 17
7.b.1, 10.b.1, 11.4.1, 17.3.1,
17.3.2, 17.4.1
International investment position
Y
7, 10, 11, 17
7.b.1, 10.b.1, 11.4.1, 17.3.1,
173.2, 17.4.1
External debt
Y
17
Income distribution
Y
2, 10, 17
17.4.1
2.3.2, 10.1.1, 10.2.1, 10.7.1,
17.1.1, 17.2.1
16
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics
for SDG monitoring
Core set economic statistics in SDG
 2 of 3 indicators of category of Money and banking statistics are included in the related
goals of SDG.
 All of indicators of category of Government, Labour market, Natural recourses and the
environment statistics are included in the SDG.
Category of statistic
Money and banking
Assets/Liabilities of depository
corporations
In SDG ?
Related
Indicators
Goal
Y
9, 10, 16
10.5.1, 16.4
Y
N
9, 10, 11, 17,
-
9.3.2, 9.a, 10.5.1, 11.c.1, 17.9.1,
-
General government operations
Y
2, 14, 16, 17
General government debt
Y
17
Broad money and credit aggregates
Interest rate statistics
Government
2.a.1, 10.5.1, 14.a.1, 16.6.1,
17.1.1, 17.1.2
17.4.1
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics
for SDG monitoring
Core set economic statistics in SDG
Category of statistic
Money and banking
Assets/Liabilities of depository
corporations
Broad money and credit aggregates
Interest rate statistics
Government
In SDG ?
Goal
Related
Indicators
Y
9, 10, 16
10.5.1, 16.4
Y
N
9, 10, 11, 17,
-
9.3.2, 9.a, 10.5.1, 11.c.1, 17.9.1,
-
General government operations
Y
2, 14, 16, 17
General government debt
Labour market
Y
17
Labour supply and demand
Y
1, 2, 8, 9, 10
Hours worked
Y
Natural Resources and the Environment
Natural resources
Y
2.a.1, 10.5.1, 14.a.1, 16.6.1,
17.1.1, 17.1.2
17.4.1
5, 8.5.1
1.1.1, 2.3.1, 8.2.1, 8.3.1, 8.5.1,
8.5.2, 8.6.1, 8.7.1, 8.8.1, 8.7.1,
8.8.2, 8.9.2, 8.b.1, 9.2.2, 10.4.1
5.4.1, 8.5.1
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12.2.1, 12.2.2
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics
for SDG monitoring
Proposal on relation core set economic statistics and SDG
 Disaggregate the key indicators in the core set of economic
statistics;
 Identify the economic indicators in SDGs; and
It is necessary to evaluate the harmonization between the core set of
economic statistics and SDGs. This will help assess the implementation
of the regional programme for improvement of economic statistics and
SDGs, review the linkage of the data, and harmonize the data.
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics for
SDG monitoring
 NRSO has translated 17 goals, 169 targets, 304 indicators into Mongolian and
sent to all ministries and related agencies.
 NRSO has initiated meetings with the MOF and the UNDP.
 With the support from UNDP and UNEP, NRSO recruited a national and
international consultants to make assessments with the aim of:
- providing an overview of national and provincial data availability in
regard to the Global SDG;
- identifying data gaps in regard to indicators for reporting against the
proposed Global SDG targets;
- creating a set of SDG indicators that are feasible for Mongolia.
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics for
SDG monitoring
 On 26 November, 2015, NRSO, MOF, UNDP and UNEP jointly
organized a National SDG Mainstreaming and Planning Workshop to
bring together all relevant stakeholders and to present the assessment
results to them.
 A resolution on establishing a Working group on SDG composed of the
representatives from key stakeholders has been supported by all
ministries.
-The Working group on SDG is divided into the Task Forces on
society, economy and environment and their responsibilities, TORs,
relationship with the Working group and scope of work are defined.
- NRSO leaded task forces on methodology development of SDG
and assessment of SDG
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5. Discussions regarding the use of economic statistics for
SDG monitoring
 On 29, March-1 April 2016, NRSO, UNSD and UNEP
jointly organized a “Strengthening basic statistics to support
the sustainable development goals” final regional workshop
for Asia and the Pacific to bring together all relevant project
matter countries and stakeholders and to present and
measure progress towards achieving a Green economy.
During the workshop, identifying linkages SDG and Green
economy indicator was pointed and discussed.
On 28, April, 2016, NRSO and MOF has organized meeting
for related ministries and stakeholders to present activities
done and to discuss further activities related to SDGs.
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