Transcript See POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

International conference on international outreach and
coordination in national accounts for sustainable
growth and development
Session 4 – Institutional capacity building in countries
Economic statistics in South Africa
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Economic statistics
Role players
• Statistics South Africa
• Official statistics; Statistics Act
• 170 publications (monthly, quarterly, annual, periodic)
• NA: GDP (prod, inc); SUT; SAM; TSA; EEA; GFS
• South African Reserve Bank
• Reputation provides stature to statistics
• NA: GDP (exp); IEA; BOP; Financial accounts; GFS
• Other
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Minerals and Energy
• South African Revenue Service
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Relationship
• Memorandum of understanding
• Statistics on SNA93 & GFS
• Meet international obligations – SDDS
• Training & development of staff
• Data quality assurance – SASQAF certification an
option
• Mutual dependence on source data
• GDP estimates
• Statistical discrepancy in GDPexp
• Annual reconciliation in SU-framework, discrepancy
remains
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Economic statistics
• Gaps and improvements
• Agriculture: Stats SA = periodic; Dept Agriculture
• Mining: Admin records from Dept of Minerals
• Financial sector => SARB
• Foreign trade: SARB = BOP; SARS = X & M goods
• Short term data on tertiary sector
• Improvements to business register
• Risks
• Quality checks; SASQAF not widely implemented
• Sustainability when statistics are not core function
• Data confrontation/harmonisation may be problematic
on lower levels
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Economic statistics
• Advantages for national accounts
• Larger pool of experts, different point of view and
perspectives
• Staff retention in civil service poor
• Future challenges
• Documentation and evaluation
• Improve quality of outputs
• Common understanding of sources and methods
• User group:
• Engage regularly and productively
• Insufficiently skilled resources to maximise benefits
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Thank you for your time
J de Beer
[email protected]
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