Transcript Current status of implementing the 2008 SNA in Swaziland

EN/AGNA/2014/Pres/05
Swaziland Presentation on
Demand for Technical Assistance
and Capacity Building
AGNA Meeting on the Implementation
of the 2008 System of National
Accounts
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3-6 February
2014
OUTLINE
1. Current Status of Implementing The 2008
SNA in Swaziland
2. Main Challenges and Difficulties
3. Type of Technical Assistance Required
4. Urgent Technical Assistance Topics
Current status of implementing the
2008 SNA in Swaziland
• Currently conducting an Economic Census
• Data collection for Phase 2 should be
complete in March 2014
• Data entry, editing and validation should be
complete by July 2014
Current status - continued
• We will be working with the IMF regional
office on benchmarking and rebasing the
National accounts.
• With the benchmarking we hope to
implement aspects of the 2008SNA.
• Currently the national accounts are based on
the 1993SNA
Main Challenges and Difficulties
Encountered
• Mainly concern the 1993SNA. For the minimum
requirement data set (MRDS) we were still on
milestone one.
• We need to improve the scope of the accounts in
compliance with the SNA concepts
• Inadequate staffing ,i.e,lack of human resources
(number and level of knowledge) capable of
implementing and developing national accounts
Type of Technical Assistance
• Consultancy – short term for capacity building
• Training – on the job and workshops
Urgent Topics which need Technical
Assistance?
• Technical issues relating to statistical
infrastructure, such as the business register
and administrative data sources.
• Estimating supply and uses tables (SUT) and
production account and generation of income
account by institutional sector.
TA continued
• Detailed supply and use tables offer the best
framework for the calculation of GDP
following the 2008 SNA recommendations
• Capacity to use developed IT tools for national
accounts statistics such as ERETES.
Conclusion - Technical Assistance
Needs
• TA to make the conceptual changes from the
1993 SNA to the 2008 SNA. (IMF)
• TA to improve the scope, detail and quality of
the national accounts and supporting
economic statistics through:
– SUT framework
– ERETES
– Quarterly NA
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