Technical Assistance Technical Assistance for Improving Economic Statistics  for ASEAN Member States

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Technical Assistance
Technical
Assistance
for Improving Economic Statistics for ASEAN Member States
Agus Sutanto
ASEAN Secretariat
Third Meeting of the Steering Group for the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics UNESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand, 29‐31 October 2013
Outline
 Mandate
Mandate of the ASEAN Community Statistical of the ASEAN Community Statistical
System (ACSS) Committee
 Three major components of ACSS Work Plan
 Capacity Building on Economic Statistics
 Strategic Plan 2016‐2020
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1. Mandate of the ACSS
ACSS Committee’s Stronger Mandate:
 ACSS Committee is the highest regional policy‐making and coordinating body on statistical matters in the ASEAN region.
1. Mandate of the ACSS
ACSS Committee’s Roles (amongst others):
 Formulate statistical policies
 Promote improvement of statistical infrastructure and facilitate institutional and capacity building
 Ensure supply of timely and comparable ASEAN statistics
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In support of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), ASEAN Socio and Cultural Community (ASCC) as well as ASEAN Political and Security Community (APSC)
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1. Mandate of the ACSS
NSO’s Stronger Mandate
 The national focal point
 Coordinator of statistical development and harmonisation at the national level
 Coordinator of statistical provision to the ASEC
1. Mandate of the ACSS
ASEANstats’s Stronger Mandate
 Member of the ACSS Committee
 Regional focal point
 Links between ACSS Committee, ASEAN bodies and international statistical organisation
 Technical arm of the ACSS Committee
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 Secretarial function
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2. Three Major Components of the
ACSS’s Work Plan
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Institutional Strengthening
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Institutional and legal framework, Infrastructure, coordination, work plans, monitoring tools, and other enabling mechanisms towards the establishment of an ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) by 2015
Strengthening ASEAN statistics
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Harmonisation of statistics, improvement of quality, dissemination, IT and database
Narrowing Development Gaps
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Catchup programme for (but not limited to) CLMV
2. Three Major Components of the ACSS’s Work Plan
Accomplished
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The ACSS Committee
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Strategic Plan 2011‐2015
Multi‐Year Action Plan (MYP) and AWPs
Rules of Procedure
The Sub‐Committee on Planning and Coordination
ACSS Code of Practice
Policies on Data Sharing, Confidentiality, Dissemination and Communication of Statistics
 Improved comparability, availability, and dissemination of IMTS, SITS, FDIS, and dissemination of MDG and ASEAN integration indicators
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2. Three Major Components of the
ACSS’s Work Plan
On‐going:
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Quality monitoring tools
Data Sharing arrangement
Dissemination and communication strategy and model
Improvement of availability, quality and comparability of key integration statistics (FDIS, SITS, IMTS) and facilitation for SNA, MDG, Connectivity and other relevant statistics
for SNA, MDG, Connectivity and other relevant statistics
 Including metadata and methodological documentation
 ASEAN Statistical Indicators (ASI) – covering the core set
 Consolidate template for effective collection of ASI
 ACSS Strategic Plan 2016‐2020
2. Three Major Components of the
ACSS’s Work Plan
Coverage of the ASEAN Statistical Indicators (ASI) 140:
 (ESCAP) Core Set of Economic Indicators: 44;
 Other ASEAN economic indicators: SITS, FDIS, manufacturing statistics, and ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS): 14;
MDGs Indicators: 61;
 MDGs Indicators: 61;
 Poverty and Well‐being Indicators: 20;
 IMTS: 1
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2. Three Major Components of the
ACSS’s Work Plan
The ASI and Consolidated Template:
 140 endorsed by the ACSS Committee in November 2011
 63 for regular submission to the ASEAN Secretariat
– 10 have been regularly submitted through separate mechanisms
– 53 to be submitted to the ASEAN Secretariat through a new mechanism (consolidated template) to be defined by the Working Group on Data Sharing, Dissemination and Communication (WGDSA).
2. Three Major Components of the
ACSS’s Work Plan
The 53 indicators covered in Consolidated Template – 10 Chapters:
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ASI‐A: Macroeconomic, Gov Finance & Monetary ‐ Quarterly
ASI‐B: Macroeconomic, Gov Finance & Monetary – Annual
ASI‐C: Price Indices and Index of Industrial ASI‐D: Industry Output, Employement, Science & Tech and Innovation
ASI‐E: Commodity Prices Data
ASI‐F:
ASI
F: Government Finance
Government Finance
ASI‐G: Gross National Income (GNI)
ASI‐H: External Debts
ASI‐I: Production Data
ASI‐J: Social and MDG
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3. Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
1. EU‐ASEAN Statistical Capacity Building (EASCAB) Programme:
 2009‐Jan 2013
 IMTS, FDIS, SITS, and to some extent MDG
 IT and Regional Database Exchange System (REXDBS)
 Institutional building
Institutional building
 Greater emphasis on CLMV
 Euro 6mn
3. Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
2. AUSAid (AADCP) :
 2005‐2007 (AADCP): IMTS and SITS – ground works for harmonisation of statistics – with ABS expert
 2008‐2009 (AADCP): ASEAN Progress Monitoring System (ACPMS) 2007
2012‐2013
2013 (AADCP II): ACPMS 2012
(AADCP II): ACPMS 2012
 2012
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3. Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
3. GIZ :
 Database for dissemination: DevInfo application ‐ 2012
 Model, Strategy and policy on data sharing, confidentiality and dissemination – 2013 (on‐going)
 Modernization of the ASEAN statistics publications production process – 2013 (on
production process 2013 (on‐going)
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3. Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
4. Others and Ad‐hoc :
 USAid – 2007‐2009:  Workshop on SNA and assessment
 Identification of Poverty and well being indicators
 IMF – 2007‐2009:
 Workshops on SNA  ILO – 2007:2009:
 Workshops on labour market indicators
 ADB – 2009:
 Database for the ACPMS
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3. Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
4. Others and Ad‐hoc :
 ABS 2013: ABS 2013:
 Technical support for the Model of dissemination and communication of statistics – a project under the GIZ
 PARIS21 and Eurostat:
 Workshops on Strategic Planning – 2012
 APRIS (EU): ISIC4
APRIS (EU): ISIC4
 UN 2013:
 Workshops on SITS
 Japan: Manufacturing statistics and ISIC 4 2004‐2007
3. Capacity Building and Technical Assistance
5. Forthcoming :
 EU‐ASEAN Capacity Building on Monitoring and Statistics 2014‐2018:  IMTS, SITS, FDIS, SNA, MDG, other relevant indicators
 Institutional building
 IT and Database and Dissemination
 Other development partners (Ad‐hoc):
 Dissemination
 Indicators for monitoring ASEAN progress
 Strategic Plan 2016‐2020
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4. Strategic Plan 2016‐2020
Four (tentative major components)
Four
(tentative major components)
 Enhancing dissemination and communication, visibility and use of statistics
 Catching up and narrowing development gaps
 Improving response to ASEAN statistical requirements
 Catch‐up and narrowing development gaps
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4. Strategic Plan 2016‐2020
 Improving response to ASEAN statistical requirements
 Institutional strengthening
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 Improving response to ASEAN statistical requirements
– Focus on harmonization of statistics of key ASEAN integration:
– ASI and metadata and methodology documentation
– Improve comparability and timeliness of statistics in support of new ASEAN initiatives: MDG, ACPMS, and ASEAN Surveillance, Connectivity, price &financial market stability
 Improve response to global initiatives on statistics
• SNA 2008 and the Improvement of Core Set of Economic Indicators
 Enhance metadata and methodological documentation
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THANK YOU
Email:
[email protected]
Website: www.asean.org/aseanstats
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