Economic Statistics in Russia:
development and new challenges
for International Forum on
Monitoring National Development
(Beijing, 27-29 September 2011)
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Some advantages and disadvantages
of Soviet statistical system
Advantages
Disadvantages
• Strictly centralized system
• Concentrated on monitoring of plan
• Unified methodology
• Non-harmonised methodology
• Sound technological base
• Isolated and closed system; not
oriented to broad audience
• Highly skilled and
qualified personnel
• Only total surveys or censuses
• No observation on some core areas
(unemployment, inflation, SNA…)
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Instruments of Statistical System Reform
 4 Federal programs of development of state
statistical system + 2 World bank projects
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Topical projects with UN organizations
6 EU technical assistance programs
Observance of IMF standards
OECD pre-accession
 Cooperation with NSIs – learning experience
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Implementation of SNA-93
Annual
Accounts, tables and indicators
Consolidated
Goods and services account
Quarter
By sector
Consolidated
By sector
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Production account
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Generation of income account
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Primary income distribution account
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Secondary income distribution account
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Use of disposable income account
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Use of adjusted disposable income account
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Capital transactions account
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Re-estimation account
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Other changes in assets account
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Financial Account
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Balance of assets and liabilities
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GDP by three methods in current and constant prices
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Available
Planned before 2017
Planned after 2017
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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
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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 nonfinancial 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
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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)
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Classifications
Russian Classification
International
Classification
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Classification of Kinds of Economic Activity
NACE Rev. 1.1
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Nomenclature of Goods for Foreign Economic Activity
HS-1996
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Classification of Products by Kinds of Economic Activity
СРА-2002
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Classification of Individual Household Consumption by
Purpose
COICOP
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Classification Institutional Units by Sector
SNA-93
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Classification of Occupations
ISCO-88
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Classification of Professions by Education
ISCED-1997
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Russian edition of International Statistical
Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
ICD-10
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Classification of currency
ISO 4217
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Classification of Countries of the World
ISO 3166
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Classification of Measurement Units
ISO 31/0
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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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Thank you for your attention!
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