Marilyn Milan Toledo

National Statistics Office Cuba was created on April 21, 1994, as a result of the reorganization of the agencies of the central state administration, from the late State Statistics Committee that was created on November 30, 1976, which was preceded in these functions by the Central Board of Planning.

 Cuba has a National Statistical System, coordinated by the NSO, with offices in all municipalities in the country working with the concept of capturing the economic and social data directly where it generates, in more than 7000 “center informants” throughout the island.  This information is processed through the network of more than 2500 computers connected in real time, which ultimately provides you the updated information.  NSO is assigned to the Ministry of Economy and Planning which is the agency responsible for directing, implementing and monitoring the implementation of the policy of state and government, regarding economy, planning and statistics.  The statistical organization structure in Cuba, is a centralized function and NSO has the technical and managerial autonomy which is financed by national budget.  The most operational statistics are centralized in the territories and the central bodies of state administration.  NSO has 15 territorial offices and 169 municipal offices

Ensure production of quality statistics through the National Statistical System to exercise proper management, implementation and monitoring of the uptake of economic and social figures, and their proper distribution in accordance with the needs of the economy and other country's needs on statistical information.

Build a statistical system that is capable of responding professional quality and timeliness of statistical information needs of the country to meet the goals of economic and social development and the appropriate international reflection, aware of being useful and necessary to society.

1.- To structure a complete training system of technical education system and ensure the updating of technical knowledge and methodology in accordance with the skill requirements of the statistical work. 2.- Ensure statistical discipline and compliance with regulations established for the collection of figures from reporting sources that make up the National Statistical System and to ensure the accuracy and quality of information.

1.- Strengthen the functioning of the system of data collection and processing of the NSO System according to the established methodology, seeking to ensure its rationality and discipline statistics from other sources. 2.- To ensure the quality and accuracy of data that is captured by the NSO System and the information received from other sources. 3.- To improve statistical services in the country and means for dissemination to meet the requirements, both national and international commitments. 4.- To advance steadily in the formulation of new indicators, the improvement of existing methodologies and prioritize the addition of other procedures, analysis and research to provide the necessary statistical basis for drawing up the new base year of national accounts of Cuba. 5.- To ensure the efficient operation of computer and support the core business of the NSO System. 6.- To improve the internal organization of work and ensure a disciplined environment in the NSO System that maintains the provision for defense, strict control of the resources available and the necessary safety and security.

1.-Integrate the country's state statistical work in an efficient, designed to provide the information required to control the economic plan, the analysis of economic performance and other needs of the country; 2.-Centralize and deliver the country's official statistics including state, cooperative, mixed and private; 3.-Arrange and approve the centralized statistics designed to meet the information requirements of management and international statistical undertakings and territorial statistics designed to meet the requirements of the bodies of the government in the territories and approve the methodology and classification rules that used in them; 4.-Conducting methodologically statistical activity of the organs, agencies, institutions and government agencies and oversee the statistical work in them, organizing statistical audit and ensuring the authenticity of the information; 5.-Identify the units of statistical observation and to capture, through the regional network, the information for centralized statistics bodies and agencies, organizations, institutions and other organizational units and designated areas of both state, cooperative, mixed and private as to individuals and households; 6.-Direct and / or run economic censuses and population, economic or social surveys of country and approve the conduct of such research bodies and organs of state when the nature and scope requires; 7.-State record keeping business, budgeted units and other state entities from entities subordinate to the political, social and mass organizations and cooperatives and the basic units of cooperative production;

 General direction  Department of Statistical systems  Department of National Accounts  Department of Industry  Department of agriculture and livestock activities  Department of Tourism and Trade  Social statistics department  Department Information  Department of Computer Science  International relations department, legal support and human resources  Protection department  Economy Department The NSO is given a Center for Population and Development Studies and has a Bureau of Social and Economic Research which is responsible for the consulting business.

 Cuba is a member of the Committee on United Nations statistics and Cuba was recently elected President of the Special Committee on Population and Development Unit for the period  The Millennium Development Goals are rectories by the National Institute of Economic Research, but its work is based on the information provided by the NSO, through national statistics system.  The statistical yearbook of 2009 has a new chapter devoted to the Millennium Development Goals.

The National Statistical System seamlessly integrating a common methodological framework to Cuba's state statistical information. In organizing the National Statistical Information System, NSO take cares to avoid unnecessary proliferation of statistics, that do not really correspond to the information needs of management bodies, and to minimize the reporting burden on reporting establishments. It is divided into three subsystems: National Statistical Information System - Form, Methodology, Nomenclature Territorial Statistical Information System Supplemental Statistical Information System

SENSEN T SIET C SIEC N SIEN NSIS TSIS National Statistical Information System Territorial Statistical Information System Supplemental Statistical Information System SSISNSS

 The National Statistical Information System is approved annually by order of the Chief of the NSO.  The NSO established methodological standards and classification of this system, prepared in accordance with the System of National Accounts of Cuba, which is the general methodological foundation of statistics. For this purpose determines: - forms to capture the units of observation and reporting establishments; - statistical indicators of the system; - methodological content of the indicators and their calculation method, and - classification systems used in the system.  Also corresponds to the NSO to determine the units of observation and reporting establishments of this system.  Collect information on population and business entities. - For the companies reported a total of 7080 units of observation or reporting establishments. - For the collection of information related to population, apply quizzes to 100 thousand households across the country, rural and urban. Includes statistics and analysis to meet the information needs of state and government for the purpose of understanding the behavior of the economic, demographic and social impacts, especially for the control of the national economic plan and budget, international statistical undertakings, to the public and other institutions.

 Includes the development of statistics to meet reporting requirements of the organs of state and government at the territorial level, so this system consists of 15 independent subsystems.  By territorial bodies are drawn towards the respective projects of information systems, by setting out the required coordination. These projects will include: - statistical observation units of the system; - information forms, and - bodies or agencies with responsibility for the collection, processing and issuance of the statistics.  The Territorial Statistical Information Systems are approved by order of the Chief of the NSO.

 Includes the compilation of statistics and analysis to meet the information needs of the organs, agencies and institutions for purposes of administrative control of their bodies, so this system is composed of subsystems for the various organs, bodies and state institutions and they are the ones responsible for the organization and operation of their respective complementary, so that: - dictate specific standards of their information systems in the framework of establishing the general rules of the National Statistical System, and - control the operation of their information systems.  NSO, as the governing body, ensures the proper functioning of Supplementary Statistical Information System and to this end: - understand and analyze complementary systems; - works so that such systems do not produce statistics that can be offered through timely processing of primary information collected by the National Statistical Information System; - provides, at the request of agencies, providing advice on methodological and operational aspects; - reports to the Heads of Central Administration of the State to detect deficiencies in the respective computer systems and makes recommendations on how to eradicate them.  The Supplemental Statistical Information Systems available are approved by the heads of agencies or institutions concerned.

GDP 2009 Structure (%) Agriculture, livestock and forestry 3.7 Fishing 0.2 Exploitation of mines and quarries 0.6 Sugar industry 0.4 Manufacturing (excluding sugar industry) 14.5 Construction 5.4 Electricity, gas and water 1.6 Transportation, warehousing and communications 8.3 Trade and repair of personal effects 18.6 Hotels and restaurants 4.5 Financial intermediation 1.9 Enterprises services, activities and rental inmoviliarias 2.6 Public administration, defence and social security 3.4 Science and Technological Innovation 0.4 Education 9.6 Public health and social care 15.8 Culture and Sports 4.3 Other community service activities, associations and personal 3.0 Import duties 1.0 Cuba follows the best practices recommended in the methodology of National Accounts System, 1993 United Nations. Cuba presents economic information according to the International Standard Industrial Classification, adapted to the Cuban economy and called Nomenclature of Economic Activities. Cuba computing the CPI in three markets, the informal, formal and agricultural products and livestock. GDP is calculated quarterly.

 Main data sources for social indicators:  Population Census  Household surveys (surveys of employment, income and expenses, living conditions)  Administrative records  Survey Multiple Indicator Cluster  Time Use Survey  Ministry of Education  Ministry of Higher Education

 Using the information on social statistics; 1. Identification, description and explanation of relevant relationships between variables of social welfare. 2. Measurement of levels, distribution and social welfare changes. 3. Contributes to the development of social policy according to its peculiarities in each territory. 4. Contributes to the design of strategies and plans for implementing that policy. 5. Social indicators help the decision making of public policy grounded in empirical evidence. 6. Meets the needs of information requested by international agencies (UNESCO, ECLAC, UNICEF, WHO and others) 7. In the evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals and monitoring achieve the objectives of education for all.

Cuba undertake the next census in September 2012, part of the Global Round of Census 2010, adopted by the Statistical Commission United Nations, where some 60 countries have collected data and its inhabitants since 2005, start of the round, until the next With the new census will change the base year of national accounts.

Chapters Territory Environment Population Institutional Organization National Accounts Finance Employment and Wages External Sector Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Mining & Energy Industry Statistical yearbooks in Cuba have 22 chapters, by theme, which displays information at the national and handouts for each of the territories. The statistical series coincide with the chapters of Statistical Yearbook (22). Construction and Investment Transportation Internal Trade Tourism Science and Technology Information Technology and Communications Education Public Health and Social Care Culture Sports and Physical Culture Electoral process in Cuba

Logs - State Register of enterprises and budgeted - List of 100% Cuban corporations with their code - Monthly Bulletin REEUP Update - Records of cooperatives - Summary table entities Classifiers - Nomenclature of Economic Activities - Correlator - Harmonized System of Classification of Products - Product Sorter Cuba - Occupational classifications - Encoder Political-Administrative Division - Countries Encoder - Organizations Encoder

Monthly - Monthly Bulletin REEUP Update - List of 100% Cuban corporations with their code - State Register of enterprises and budgeted - Agricultural Sector. Leading Indicators - Forestry Sector. Selected Indicators - Tourism. International visitor arrivals - Sales in the Agricultural Market Quarterly - Institutional Organization. Major players - Main indicators of Turquino Plan - Labour Protection. Selected Indicators - Records of cooperatives - Community Services. Selected Indicators - Summary table entities - Tourism. Selected Indicators

Annual - Demographic Yearbook of Cuba - Statistical Yearbook of Cuba - Food Consumption - Notebook Population and Development Studies - Investment Execution - Energy Statistics - Investment costs for Environmental Protection - Selected Energy Indicators - Selected Indicators for Innovation - National Inventory of Renewable Energy Sources - Forestry in Cuba - Surface movement and the cooperative in the CPA - Index Numbers of Foreign Trade of goods - Index Numbers of Exports - Index Numbers of Imports - Demographic Overview - Cuba Economic & Social - Environmental Overview - Panorama Place - Panorama Land Use - Turquino Plan - Course Outline Course School and Home School Casual - Comex Bases -Product Sorter Cuba (CPCU) -Cuba in Figures The gender perspective in statistics Turquino-Manati Plan -The current status and perspective of the Cuban population: A challenge for sustainable territorial development -Life expectancy. Cuba and Provinces Estimates by sex and age. -Internal Migration Studies -Cuban Women: Statistics and Facts 1958 – Population Projection -Population series reconstructed CPV/ Vol I and II -Existing surface sown seed and rice -Existing surface sown seed and bean

Interest - Latin America and the Caribbean. Growth Estimate for Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean Special Bulletin No. 30 FAO Representation in Cuba - NOTI FAO Bulletin December International crises and opportunities for regional cooperation - Trade in services in member countries of ALADI: Quantitative assessment and policy - The capacity building: Empowering People and Institutions - Unpaid productive work within households: Guatemala and Mexico - State of the World's Children Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, Incidence of-pocket health costs in seven Latin American countries - Selected Statistical Indicators of Caribbean Countries - Child Development Index - Report on Cooperation in Latin America - The volatility of international prices and policy challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean - Food trends, Agricultural Sector Information, North America and the Caribbean - The learning of students from Latin America and the Caribbean - Indigenous peoples and African descendants in the data sources: experiences in Latin America - Neurons for an economy unsettled - Millennium Development Goals. Progression towards the right to health in Latin America and the Caribbean - Overview of the international insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean. Trends Social Panorama of Latin America Economic and Social Plan and State Budget for Periodic report on the progress of the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean, Demographic changes and their impact on development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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