Economic governance and management

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Economic governance and management Presentation
to the ad hoc committee on economic governance
and management Pali LehohlaStatistician
General 1 November 2005
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Structure of presentation

• To supply quality statistics
• Purpose of Stats SA
• Statistics Act
• Statistics and governance
• Available statistics
• Price statistics
• Labour statistics
• Industry statistics
• Government statistics
• National accounts
• Socio-economic statistics

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Purpose of Stats SA

• Provide a relevant and accurate body of
  statistics to inform
• users on the dynamics in the economy and society
  through the
• application of internationally acclaimed
  practices.
• Benchmarks
• Statistics Act (Act 6 of 1999)
• UN Fundamental Principles of official statistics
• IMF Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS)
• Report on standards and Codes (ROSC)
• System of National Accounts (SNA 93)
• ILO labour markets definitions

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Statistics and governance
Linking statistics and governance

• Criteria in data quality assessment framework
• Integrity
• Methodological soundness
• Accuracy and reliability
• Serviceability
• Acccessability

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National priorities
Priority area
Relevant statistics
GDP and set of economic surveys, CPI, PPI etc
Grow the Economy
Create jobs
LFS and QES
GHS, Census, Community survey, Municipal Census
Deliver services
Eradicate poverty
GHS, Census, Community survey
Improve health
Mortality statistics
Contribution to statistical development
Impact Africa and the world
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Evolution of statistics in Stats SA
95/96
00/01
05/06
10/11
Fragmented statistics
Transformation
Stabilise standardise
Coherent national statistics
No social statistics
Set of social and employment stats
Stabilised social stats
Improved living conditions information
First inclusive Census
Second census based on geographic frame
Community survey
Census 2011
Start business register improvement
Stabilised economic stats
Expanded coverage of economy
Poor quality Economic statistics
1 black manager
6 (of 19) black SMS members
48 (of 94) black SMS members
82 (of 112) black SMS members
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Statistics and governance
Linking statistics and governance

• Statistics measure previous economic governance
  and management
• Various instruments are used
• Vary according to method, frequency etc
• Statistics inform future economic management,
  development and policies
• Statistics itself are governed by international
  standards, methodologies and practices
• SNA93, ILO, UN, SDDS, IMF, World Bank

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Available economic statistics
Suite of economic statistics

• Price statistics
• Monthly CPI(X), PPI
• Labour statistics
• Quarterly formal employment, average monthly
  earnings
• Industry statistics
• Monthly, quarterly, annual, periodic variables on
  economic performance of selected industries

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Available economic statistics
Suite of economic statistics

• Government statistics
• Quarterly and annual financial statistics for 3
  levels of government
• The non-financials for service delivery
• National Accounts
• Quarterly and annual measurement of national and
  regional performance of economy
• Socio-economic statistics
• Bi-annual employment and unemployment
• Periodic measurement of informal economy
• General Household Surveys

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Economic statistics in Stats SA
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Prioritisation of challenges in 2003
Attend to urgently
Maintain and Improve
Price Indices Income expenditure Poverty
information Research and analysis GDP Sectoral
economic statistics Business Register Quality and
Methodology Financial data Employment (SEE and
LFS) General household survey Census 2006
Degree of importance
Innovate
Drop
Geography MIS Datawarehouse
Parallel samples
Stakeholder satisfaction
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And how it has changed in 2004
Attend to urgently
Maintain and Improve
Price Indices Income expenditure Poverty
information Research and analysis and CRS Second
Economy Construction Service sector
GDP Sectoral economic statistics Business
Register Quality and Methodology Financial
data Employment (SEE and LFS) General household
survey
Degree of importance
Innovate
Drop
Geography MIS Datawarehouse
Parallel samples Census 2006
Stakeholder satisfaction
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Key projects as in 2004

• External stakeholders
• Branding Stats SA
• Census replacement survey
• Matching of LFS questionnaires for panel
  analysis
• Census 2011
• ISI/ Commonwealth

• Statistical process
• Benchmarking/re-basing GDP
• CPI direct price collection
• IES diary method
• Quality improvement survey and BR improvements
• PPI updating of sample
• Technology improvements collection and
  processing
• Statistical data management and warehousing
• Regional offices
• Geo-referenced dwelling unit frame

• Governance
• Risk management
• Asset management
• Business process management
• Assessment of IT infrastructure

• Investment in the future
• Internship project
• Human capacity development

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• Urgent to attend
• Quality control and management
• Recruitment
• CPI direct price collection methodology
• Income and Expenditure Survey
• Community Survey 2007 - geo-referenced dwelling
  frame - setting-up regional offices
• Re-engineering the Labour Force Survey
  (methodology)
• PPI re-weighting
• Providing Second economy information
• Statistical capacity development/Training and
  development strategy
• DMID
• Providing Poverty information
• Economic statistics strategy
• Managing risks effectively
• Internship programme
• Improving procurement processes and systems
• Improving critical stakeholder relations
• Managing the performance of the organisation
• Improving support to projects.

• Long-term initiatives
• Census 2011
• Implementing the NSS
• Establishing a permanent fieldwork force to
  collect information on a regional level
• Improving the business register
• Technology for data collection and processing
• Strategy for vital statistics which includes the
  population register
• Role of provinces which will include the
  decentralization of functions to the provincial
  offices
• Improving the legal capacity which includes legal
  policies
• ICT strategyCareer pathing
• Succession planning
• Employment Equity
• New Building

High
Degree of importance

• Maintain Improve
• Longitudinal analysis of LFS
• Causes of death
• ISI 2009
• Gross domestic product
• Tourism Satellite accounts
• Maintenance of the master sample

• Innovative
• Construction and Tourism statistics
• Measures for organisational performance
• Space/office accommodation
• Policies
• Geographic spread of economic activity
• Business process improvement project
• Document and records management systems
• Management Information System
• Research and development
• Designation of official statistics
• Branding
• Common Wealth Conference
• Effective cash flow management system
• Asset management
• Transformation (OD and change management)

Urgency
Long-term
Short-term
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Economic statistics in Stats SA
Recent improvement in economic statistics

• Access to taxation data, improved coverage and
  scope
• Labour stats improved since 2002 STEE/AME -
  SEE - QES
• Economic activity survey 2002 onwards
• Short-term series Level increases 2004
• GDP revisions November 2004
• CPI price colletors
• IES diary method

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Economic statistics in Stats SA
Future improvement in economic statistics

• Increased scope of short-term indicators,
  focusing on tertiary sector
• Improved detail of current short term indicators
• Maintaining the rotation of the LSS
• Increase the scope of the EAS
• Improved IES and price statistics
• Frequent measurement of informal sector

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Economic governance and management Presentation
to the ad hoc committee on economic governance
and management Pali LehohlaStatistician
General 1 November 2005