1. 1 1 Economic Statistics in Russia: development and new challenges for International Forum on Monitoring National Development (Beijing, 27-29 September 2011)

2. 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. 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. 4 Implementation of SNA-93

5. 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. 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

7. 7 2011 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. 8 Classifications Russian ClassificationInternational Classification 1Classification of Kinds of Economic ActivityNACE Rev. 1.1 2Nomenclature of Goods for Foreign Economic ActivityHS-1996 3Classification of Products by Kinds of Economic ActivityСРА-2002 4Classification of Individual Household Consumption by Purpose COICOP 5Classification Institutional Units by SectorSNA-93 6Classification of OccupationsISCO-88 7Classification of Professions by EducationISCED-1997 8Russian edition of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ICD-10 9Classification of currencyISO 4217 10Classification of Countries of the WorldISO 3166 11Classification of Measurement UnitsISO 31/0

9. 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

10. 10 Thank you for your attention!