Compilation of Economic Statistics at CSA, Ethiopia

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Compilation of Economic Statistics at CSA,
Ethiopia

• Mageru Haile
• Central Statistical Agency
• www.csa.gov.et

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Outline

• Introduction
• Institutional Arrangement
• Types of surveys
• Challenges
• Conclusion

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Institutional Arrangement

• CSA is headed by a Director General and three
  Deputy Director Generals
• The Agency has 25 branch offices
• One of the Deputy Director Generals is
  responsible for Economic Statistics

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Institutional Arrangement (contd)

• The Economic Statistics Branch has three
  departments
• Natural Resources and Agricultural Statistics
• Industry, Trade and Services Statistics and
• Household Budget and Price Statistics
• Furthermore within each department there are two
  to three expert teams

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Types of surveys

• Agricultural Statistics
• Survey carried out on annual basis since 1980
  through Integrated Household Survey Program and
  includes
• Crop forecasting
• Area and Production
• Farm management practices
• Land Utilization
• Livestock

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Statistics on Manufacturing Industries

• Annual Survey on Large and Medium Scale
  Manufacturing Industries, Since 1976
• Quarterly Survey on the same since 2004
• Compilation of Producer Price Indices (PPI-M), on
  quarterly basis, since 2005
• Small Scale and Cottage/Handicraft Industries
  Survey, every five years

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Trade and Services Statistics

• Distributive Trade and Services
• Carried out in 1997 and 2003
• External Merchandise Trade Statistics
• Data capturing is done at Customs using ASYCUDA
• CSA processes external trade data using Eurotrace
  since 1997

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Transport, Communications and Finance Statistics

• They are based on data from administrative
  sources

Household Budget and Price Statistics

• Household Income, Consumption and Expenditure
  Survey
• Conducted every five years the latest in 2004
• CPI since 1963

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Challenges

• Data Gap
• Construction
• Services
• Distributive Trade
• Lack of Business Register
• Shortage of Trained Manpower

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Conclusion

• We need to bridge the data gap on the key sectors
  of the economy, e.g. construction, services..
• We need to train our staff in ways of writing an
  in-depth analytical report on the surveys carried
  out by the department, and we need to retain
  experienced staff through attractive remuneration
  as Uganda does
• A forum for a dialog between CSA and the
  manufacturing establishments needs to be
  established to minimize non-response
• Every effort needs to be exerted to create a
  robust business register system

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• Thank You !