E M conomic Statistics in acao SAR, China

Economic Statistics in Macao SAR, China1
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National Statistical Website: http://www.dsec.gov.mo
World Bank Economic Grouping: High-income
Population (thousands, 2014): 575.5
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GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 75,641
Coordination
Advocacy
▪ Agencies involved in economic statistics:
○ Government of Macao Special Administrative Region
- Statistics and Census Service
▪
Statistical
law
protects
confidentiality
and
independence of statistical information
▪ Centralized statistical system
○ Responsibilities are clearly defined for agencies
involved in the production of the Core Set
▪ 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 not considered
sufficient but there are activities in place to improve upon
it
International Collaboration
▪ Interested in participating in RPES as a recipient but
not as a provider of technical assistance
▪Partnered with IMF and ADB
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for
calculating purchasing power parities
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
National Accounts
No Response
3 months
Balance of Payments
Annually
3 months
Labour Force Survey
Monthly
1 month
Household Income/Expenditure Survey
Every 5 years
8 months
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Annually
11 months
Population Census
Every 10 years
4 months
×
×
Economic Census
N/A
N/A
Agricultural Census
N/A
N/A
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993 (2008 planned)
- ISIC Rev. 3 (Rev.4 planned)
- CPC ver. 2
- COICOP
- COFOG
- Plans to make BoP coherent
with BPM6
Quality assessment framework is available and used to monitor the quality of economic statistics outputs
Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata
Centralized business register is currently used for multiple statistical products
Established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses
IT systems are considered adequate for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics
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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
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ESCAP Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2014: http://www.unescap.org/resources/statistical-yearbook-asia-and-pacific-2014
NSDS information for developed countries is not included in the national summary.
Technical Skills
× Human resources are not
Documentation of internal
considered adequate for producing the Core Set
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)
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
Commodity price index
Unavailable
Monthly
×
External merchandise trade price indices
Quarterly
Monthly
●
Wages / Earnings data
Quarterly
Quarterly
Labour costs index / Wage index
Quarterly
Quarterly
GDP (production) nominal and real
Annually
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
Quarterly
Quarterly
Economy structure statistics
Annually
Every 5 years
Productivity
Unavailable
Annually
×
Integrated national accounts
Annually
Annually
Institutional sector accounts
Annually
Annually
Balance of payments (BOP)
Annually
Quarterly
●
International investment position (IIP)
Unavailable
Annually
×
External debt
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
Income distribution
Every 5 years
Every 5 years
Assets / liabilities of depository corporations
Monthly
Monthly
Broad money and credit aggregates
Monthly
Monthly
Interest rate statistics
Monthly
Monthly
General government operations
Quarterly
Quarterly
General government debt
Unavailable
Quarterly
×
Money and Banking
Government
Labour supply and demand
Quarterly
Annually
Labour Market
Hours worked
Quarterly
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
21
Below Recommendations
Unavailable or No Response
3
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