GDP comparison basing on purchasing power parities in the CIS countries

Participating countries Azerbaijan Armenia Belarus Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgizstan Moldova Russian Federation Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine

Regional Coordinators CIS Stat. committee Rosstat ICP Regional Office - Bureau of Economic Analysis

Legal base Council of the Heads of statistical offices of the CIS countries in December 2003 confirms participation of CIS countries in comparison MOUs has been approved by Governments and signed Global MOU has been signed

Base year CIS countries plan to participate in 2004 round as stated in initial plan of Global round Global round is postponed to 2005 CIS decision: Both years: 2004 and 2005

Main features of CIS comparison GDP comparison 1993 SNA Multilateral base EKS aggregation Fixity principle for CIS countries Using asterisk method

What is done? 1 multilateral meeting in 2003 Subject: ICP methodology 2 multilateral meetings in 2004 Subject: Consumer and investment item list 1 bilateral meeting between coordinators and participating country

What is done?(continued) Creation of item lists (1330 consumer and 200 equipment items) Special work with construction Creation of the web site Translation of documents Monitoring price observation in countries Research in construction

Problems Communication problems caused by absence of electricity, non compatible software Voluntary changes of reporting forms Institutional changes in some countries No checking prices No marking asterisks for representative items Financing

Achievements Timely receiving questionnaires Good coverage of item lists