1 1 Economic Statistics in Russia: development and new challenges for International Forum on Monitoring National Development (Beijing, September 2011)

2 Some advantages and disadvantages of Soviet statistical system Advantages Strictly centralized system Unified methodology Sound technological base Highly skilled and qualified personnel Disadvantages Concentrated on monitoring of plan Non-harmonised methodology Isolated and closed system; not oriented to broad audience Only total surveys or censuses No observation on some core areas (unemployment, inflation, SNA…)

3 Instruments of Statistical System Reform  4 Federal programs of development of state statistical system + 2 World bank projects  Topical projects with UN organizations  6 EU technical assistance programs  Observance of IMF standards  OECD pre-accession  Cooperation with NSIs – learning experience

4 Implementation of SNA-93

5 Demands of users  value added and its dynamics by types of economic activity  financial account data and balance sheets  accounts and balanced tables by institutional sectors and economic subsectors  GDP dynamics by double deflation method  input-output tables following SNA methodology  non-financial assets basing on current market value

6 SNA challenges (OECD and IMF recommendations)  gross value added and its components according to NACE  households final consumption by type of production or by purpose according to COICOP  current transactions accounts by sectors of non- financial and financial corporations  rent evaluation, the closest to SNA-93 methodology  labor costs by type of employment consistent with output data and value added by kinds of activity  financial account

input-output tables  table “Resources of goods and services”  tables of goods and services use with separate tables for domestic and foreign products use  symmetrical input-output table  Published tables. Basic input-output tables (188 sectors and 338 product groups)  Working tables. Results of sample surveys and “supply and use” indicators (298 sectors and 642 product groups)

8 Classifications Russian ClassificationInternational Classification 1Classification of Kinds of Economic ActivityNACE Rev Nomenclature of Goods for Foreign Economic ActivityHS Classification of Products by Kinds of Economic ActivityСРА Classification of Individual Household Consumption by Purpose COICOP 5Classification Institutional Units by SectorSNA-93 6Classification of OccupationsISCO-88 7Classification of Professions by EducationISCED Russian edition of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ICD-10 9Classification of currencyISO Classification of Countries of the WorldISO Classification of Measurement UnitsISO 31/0

9 Business Statistics  Business Register  Business Demography  Identification of economically active units and small enterprises  Better use of administrative data in official statistics  Integration with SNA

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