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Collaboration Among Developing Countries, Partner
States, and International Organizations in Building
Statistical Capacity for National Accounts: The UK DFIDFunded GDDS Project for Anglophone Africa
Prepared for discussion by IMF and World Bank
Joint Eurostat-UNSD Conference on International
Outreach and Coordination in National Accounts
for Sustainable Growth and Development
Luxembourg
May 6-8, 2008
International Commitments
and Frameworks
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General Data Dissemination System
(GDDS) projects for Anglophone Africa
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Funding agency
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Executing agencies
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United Kingdom Department for International
Development (DFID)
IMF
World Bank
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International Commitments
and Frameworks
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GDDS projects for Anglophone Africa
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GDDS Phase I
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15 countries 2001-2006
Participation in the General Data Dissemination
System
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GDDS Phase II
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Macroeconomic and socioeconomic datasets
Metadata only
22 countries 2006-2009
Execution of GDDS plans for improvement and
National Strategies for Statistical Development (NSDS)
Data production and institutional capacity
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GDDS Phase II
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Modular approach
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Inventory packages of statistical outcomes
participating TA collaborators can help provide,
as a menu from which countries can select,
based on national statistical development
strategies
Modules formed from consistent topical
structures that facilitated interagency
coordination
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NSDS, incorporating GDDS and Data Quality
Assessment Framework (DQAF) concepts (IMF)
Statistical production schema (World Bank)
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GDDS Phase II
Institutional
policy
ICT
Registers and
frames
Surveys
Integration
frameworks
Dissemination
Management
systems (WB)
GIS (WB)
Population
statistics (WB)
Agriculture
statistics (WB)
Labor
statistics (WB)
Financial
statistics (IMF)
GFS (IMF)
National
accounts
(IMF)
GDDS and
SDDS (IMF)
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National accounts module –
Expected output
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Improvements in the coverage and currentness of
GDP (integration framework) through maximum use
of existing data sources, especially those currently
underutilized, in addition to improving existing
surveys; and
Improvement in relevance of GDP by rebasing to
the most recent year allowed by available data
sources.
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Context and purpose of the National
Accounts module – use of available
sources for integration framework
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Household income and expenditure surveys and
related surveys for measuring poverty:
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Value added tax:
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An important administrative source for improving the
business register and estimates of industry output and
value added;
Government accounts:
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These are an important source for compiling final
household consumption, income and subsistence
production;
These data on actual government expenditures (rather
than budget estimates) are the primary source for
estimating activities of the government sector; and
Banking data:
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These data are critical to estimating financial
intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM).
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Capacity requirements for
participating countries
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Module emphasizes the need for adequate planning
and resource provision (see also SDDS/GDDS/ PRSP
module.
Needed national resources:
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Collection of data from underutilized sources and
improvement of existing surveys require a minimum of two
technical staff part time for a small economy and more in
the case of a large economy.
Management should
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express a commitment to providing these resources as work on
the module begins and
remain involved in continuing to identify statistical needs and
priorities and for supporting their staff where needed (e.g.
ensuring continued access to administrative data from other
ministries).
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Planned execution of the
module
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Regional workshop covering
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Technical assistance missions addressing
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The use of survey data in the national accounts;
The data needs and priorities for surveys and administrative
sources;
Technical aspects of rebasing the accounts;
Specific project outcomes for each country and a plan to
achieve them (planning and sampling, follow-up, data analysis)
Discuss the staffing and other inputs, potential funding sources.
Improving existing surveys and in exploring the increased use of
administrative data
A closing workshop confirming the achievement of the
planned outputs and identifying common problems.
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