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CHALLENGES & PRACTICES ON THE COMPILATION ECONOMIC STATISTICS IN ETHIOPIA

CHALLENGES & PRACTICES ON THE COMPILATION ECONOMIC STATISTICS IN ETHIOPIA. Elias Fisseha UNECA Hotel Meridien July 5-9,2010 Mauritius. In Ethiopia, the compilation of economic statistics started in the beginning of 1950’s at National Bank.

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CHALLENGES & PRACTICES ON THE COMPILATION ECONOMIC STATISTICS IN ETHIOPIA

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  1. CHALLENGES & PRACTICES ON THE COMPILATION ECONOMIC STATISTICS IN ETHIOPIA Elias Fisseha UNECA Hotel Meridien July 5-9,2010 Mauritius

  2. In Ethiopia, the compilation of economic statistics started in the beginning of 1950’s at National Bank. • Currently, Monetary Statistics is compiled at National Bank. • National Accounts is compiled at Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. • Sectorial statistics such as Agriculture, Manufacturing is compiled at central statistical agency. • Revenue statistics is compiled at the at the Ministry of Revenue and expenditure statistics is compiled at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. • Price , Household Income Consumption & Expenditure, Welfare monitoring , Labour force, Employment & informal sector survey and statistics is compiled at Central Statistical agency.

  3. Challenges There are three major challenges in the collection ,compilation and dissemination of Economic Statistics. • Data Gap • Organizational responsibility • Business as usual practice

  4. 1. Data Gap • Annual survey is available for Agriculture , Livestock and Manufacturing. • Small scale industries survey is conducted in every five years. • Distributive trade survey is conducted in every five years. • Labour force survey is conducted in every five years. • Welfare monitoring survey is conducted in every five years. • Household income consumption and expenditure survey is conducted in every five years.

  5. 1.1 Major Problems • Only Agriculture and Manufacturing survey is conducted annually. • Most of the survey are conducted in every five years. • There is not enough survey on the service sector. • Indirect estimation technique is applied to obtain the value added .

  6. 2.Organizational Responsibility • Different organizations are responsible in the compilation of economic statistics. • Most of the data produced by different organization does not follow international standard. The data is produced for their own annual report and plan performance. It is difficult to use the data for National Accounts purpose . • Duplication of responsibility in the production of data. For example both the Ministry of Agriculture and the Central Statistical Agency produce agricultural production statistics. • The different publication have different date of data dissemination.

  7. 2.1 The National Accounts Compilation • Unlike other African countries the National Accounts Statistics is compiled in the Ministry of Finance. • All the survey and census results are collected and analyzed at Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. • These have advantages and disadvantages.

  8. 2.1.1 Advantages • Forecasting parameters like investment, budget and the overall macroeconomic and sectoral parameters are available at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. • Direct access to budget statistics from the federal and regional bureaus. • International Economic analysis and outlook is better dealt at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.

  9. 2.1.2Disadvantages • It is difficult to obtain Micro and disaggregated data at the firm and enterprises level. • It is not possible to conduct surveys to fill the data gap. • The National Accounts and other statistics from the Central Statistics Agency do not disseminate at the same time. • The discrepancy in data due to definition and methodology. • Some surveys are used due to clarity of concepts, definition and miscommunication between the Central Statistical Agency and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.

  10. 3. Practice of Business as Usual • This is the practice of an individual or an institution not accept new ideas, new technologies. • Inflexibility. • Lack of pro-activeness. • Resistance to changes.

  11. 4. Recommendations • To improve the data gap more survey on the service sector. • To establish a common database which will allow access to both the Ministry and Statistical Agency. • Fully implement a newly adopted National Statistical Development Strategy (NSDS).

  12. Thank you for your attention!

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