1. Short – term statistics and seasonal adjustment in Azerbaijan Yusif Yusifov, Head of division Industry, transport and communication statistics State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan yusify@azstat.org 24 Yanvar 2011 1

2. Assessment of needs  Priority of integration of official statistics of Azerbaijan to European standards  Increasing of demands of users on Business statistics  International organizations: UN, IMF and etc.  Government institutions  Other users: questionnaires, letters and etc.  Twinning projects of EC  State Program on improvement official statistics 2

3. Assessment of situation before 2010  Not clear business statistics  Different approach of frame of BS  Different approach organization of surveys and collection of data  Nor covered all indicators on BS  Not coordination of BS and publication 3

4. Initials to building BS  Learning of regulations and recommendations of European Union  Support of Twinning project  Learning of experience of Bulgaria and Germany  Study visit and expert missions  Training on BS  Analyze of availability of indicators 4

5. Practical steps by statistics of Azerbaijan  Decisions of State Statistical Committee:  Improvement of questionnaires  Coordination of data  Publication of data  Creating of working group  Preparation of indicators system on BS (STS and SBS) 5

6. Classifications for BS  National Classification of Economic Activities  - NACE Rev.2 and NACE Rev.1.1  National Product Classification by activity  - CPA-2003 and CPA-2008  Nomenclature of industrial production  - PRODCOM  Classification of regions of Azerbaijan  Register of statistical units 6

7.  Industry – B to E (13 indicators)  Construction – F (14 indicators)  Retail trade and repair– G (3 indicators)  Market services -H to R (2 indicators) Short-term Business Statistics: frame by NACE

8. Availability of STS indicators (1) By industry statistics – 13 indicators 110 Production - 120 Turnover 121 Domestic turnover 122 Non-domestic turnover 130 New orders received 131 Domestic new orders 132 Non-domestic new orders 210 Number of persons employed 220 Hours worked 230 Gross wages and salaries 310 Output prices 311 Output prices of the domestic market 312 Output prices of the non-domestic market

9. Availability of STS indicators (2) By construction statistics – 14 indicators 110 Production 115 Production of building construction 116 Production of civil engineering 130 New orders received 135 New orders received for building construction 136 New orders received for civil engineering 210 Number of persons employed 220 Hours worked 230 Gross wages and salaries 320 Construction costs 321 Material costs 322 Labour costs 411 Building permits: number of dwellings 412 Building permits: square metres of useful floor area or alternative size measure

10. Availability of STS indicators (3) By retail trade and repair statistics – 3 indicators 120 Turnover 210 Number of persons employed 330 Deflator of sales By market services statistics – 2 indicators 120 Turnover 210 Number of persons employed

11. Seasonal adjustment Carried out via X12 ARIMA  By Industry statistics - since 2009  Trade statistics – since 2009  Price statistics – since 2009  Construction statistics – since 2010 11

12. Problems on STS and seasonal adjustment Short-term statistics  Integration (unification) of questionnaires  Different time for collecting data (turnover, labour)  Creating of metadata, quality management  Electron questionnaire  Seasonal adjustment  Not confidence on accuracy of data  Seasonal adjustment by NACE class and aggregation  Publication of data  Implementation DEMETRA 12

13. 13 Thanks ! Questions?