Statement of Strategy Template for the
Implementation Programme of the 2008
SNA and supporting statistics in Brazil
National Seminar on Developing a Programme for the
Implementation Programme of the 2008 SNA in Brazil
16 September, IBGE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Elements of the statement of strategy
o Mandate,
o Mission statement
o Values
o High-level goals
o Specific goals
o Required actions
Mandate
Mandate, is determined by national and regional policy
objectives and underpinned by the regulatory and
institutional framework
o Legal mandate
o Statistical act and other relevant legislation, with
possible review, revision and promulgation of new
legislation
o International standards
o UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
o Standards 2008 SNA, BPM6, GFSM, MFSM, ISIC
Rev4, MITS, SIT
Mission statement
Mission statement describes the purpose, users, outputs,
markets, philosophy and basic technology
The efficient and timely dissemination of high quality
national accounts and supporting economic statistics in
response to policy needs in an interconnected regional and
global economic environment
Values
Values need to reflect the values and principles portrayed by
the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics to produce
useful high-quality data
Statistical professionalism
Relevance, public utility and equal access
Independence and integrity
Excellent service to our customers
Respect and understanding for our data suppliers
Value for money
High-level goals
High-level goals represent the overall accomplishments to be
achieved
Improving scope, quality and timeliness of
economic statistics
Minimizing response burden
Increasing use of administrative data for statistical
purposes
Achieving cost effectiveness using best practices
Raising public awareness and use of national
accounts and economic statistics
Specific goals
Specific goals describe the ultimate results that need to be
accomplished
Compiling
national
accounts
and
other
macroeconomic statistics according to SDDS
Developing a national central hub for annual and
short term economic statistics on real, fiscal,
financial and external sector
Required actions
Required actions to be carried out:
Regulatory and institutional framework
o strengthening the functioning of NSS, its programming,
management and performance
Statistical infrastructure
o strengthening of use of standards (2008 SNA, etc.),
classifications (ISIC Rev 4, etc.), registers and frames,
modernizing information management and information
technology
Statistical operations
o strengthening
of
data
dissemination and analysis
collection,
compilation,
Regulatory and institutional framework
o Modernisation of the national regulatory and institutional
framework for 2008 SNA and supporting statistics by
strengthening
o Statement of strategy (by November 2013) with deliverables by
2015 and 2018/19 – change over in Q 2 2015, annual and quarterly
national accounts and time series 1995 -2014
o Implementation plan reflected in annual and medium-term work
programme of IBGE (by 2015 for 2016-2019)
o National technical coordination board/working group for
economic statistics operationalized by the partners (data
producers, data providers, policy users, academia)
o Updated and new MoUs with data providers
o Senior management and statistical training – human
development
o Other as relevant
Statistical infrastructure
The staged upgrading of statistical infrastructure
o 2008 SNA, BPM6, GFSM 2013 compliance
o Scope 2008 SNA – updated SUTs
o Scope 2008 SNA – institutional sector accounts,
including balance sheets
o Periodicity - quarterly GDP by production, income
and expenditure
o Periodicity - annual SUT, current and prices t-1
o Periodicity – quarterly institutional sector accounts,
including balance sheets
Statistical infrastructure
The staged upgrading of statistical infrastructure
o Establishing a minimum set of annual and short
term statistics (e.g. real, financial, fiscal, external
sector)
o Scope BPM6 – BOP and IIP
o Periodicity BPM6 - quarterly
o Scope GFSM 2013 – including balance sheets
o Periodicity GFSM 2013 - quarterly
o Classification compliance – ISIC rev4, CPC2, HS2010
o Business registers, towards single national register
o Harmonized system of household surveys
o Harmonized system of enterprise surveys
o Modernization of information management and
information technology
o Others as relevant
Statistical operations
Staged upgrading of statistical operations
o Making 2008 SNA/BPM6/GFSM 2013/MFSM and ISIC Rev.
4/CPC v2 compliance adjustments to business and
household surveys and administrative sources
o Introducing new benchmark 2010 using SUT
o Detailing capital stock and consumption of fixed capital,
including government consumption of fixed capital
o Extending scope of monthly and quarterly production
and price surveys for services
o Integrating of BPM6 and 2008 SNA-related surveys
o Increasing use of administrative data (service
agreements/ MOUs for formalizing modalities)
o Backcasting time series to 1995
Statistical operations
Staged upgrading of statistical operations
o Extending exhaustive measure of GDP (including
2008 SNA issues related to the GDP level)
o Integrating of flow of funds and balance sheets
in quarterly institutional sector accounts
o Move to accrual standards for Government
Finance Statistics based on IPSAS, including
valuation of assets (e.g. produced and nonproduced assets, including natural resources)
and liabilities (e.g pension entitlements)
o Update tourism statistics and tourism satellite
accounts
Statistical operations
Staged upgrading of statistical operations
o Updating of health accounts and health services
o Developing cultural accounts and cultural services
o Strengthening statistics in international trade in services,
including tourism, health and cultural statistics
o Introducing treatment of goods for processing and
merchanting
o Detailing sources and methods -metadata
o Updating detail of dissemination (e.g. revision policy and
communication strategy)
o Others as relevant
Thank You