Short – term statistics and seasonal adjustment in Azerbaijan Yusif Yusifov

• Short – term statistics and seasonal adjustment in Azerbaijan

• Yusif Yusifov,

• Head of division Industry, transport

• and communication statistics

• State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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Priority of integration of official statistics of Azerbaijan to European standards

• Priority of integration of official statistics of Azerbaijan to European standards

• Increasing of demands of users on Business statistics

• International organizations: UN, IMF and etc.
• Government institutions
• Other users: questionnaires, letters and etc.

• Twinning projects of EC

• State Program on improvement official statistics

Not clear business statistics

• Not clear business statistics

• Different approach of frame of BS

• Different approach organization of surveys and collection of data

• Nor covered all indicators on BS

• Not coordination of BS and publication

Learning of regulations and recommendations of European Union

• Learning of regulations and recommendations of European Union

• Support of Twinning project

• Learning of experience of Bulgaria and Germany

• Study visit and expert missions

• Training on BS

• Analyze of availability of indicators

Decisions of State Statistical Committee:

• Decisions of State Statistical Committee:

• Improvement of questionnaires
• Coordination of data
• Publication of data

• Creating of working group

• Preparation of indicators system on BS (STS and SBS)

National Classification of Economic Activities

• National Classification of Economic Activities

• - NACE Rev.2 and NACE Rev.1.1

• National Product Classification by activity

• - CPA-2003 and CPA-2008

• Nomenclature of industrial production

• - PRODCOM

• Classification of regions of Azerbaijan

• Register of statistical units

Industry – B to E (13 indicators)

• Industry – B to E (13 indicators)

• Construction – F (14 indicators)

• Retail trade and repair– G (3 indicators)

• Market services -H to R (2 indicators)

By industry statistics – 13 indicators

• By industry statistics – 13 indicators
• 110 Production -
• 120 Turnover
• 121 Domestic turnover
• 122 Non-domestic turnover
• 130 New orders received
• 131 Domestic new orders
• 132 Non-domestic new orders
• 210 Number of persons employed
• 220 Hours worked
• 230 Gross wages and salaries
• 310 Output prices
• 311 Output prices of the domestic market
• 312 Output prices of the non-domestic market

By construction statistics – 14 indicators

• By construction statistics – 14 indicators
• 110 Production
• 115 Production of building construction
• 116 Production of civil engineering
• 130 New orders received
• 135 New orders received for building construction
• 136 New orders received for civil engineering
• 210 Number of persons employed
• 220 Hours worked
• 230 Gross wages and salaries
• 320 Construction costs
• 321 Material costs
• 322 Labour costs
• 411 Building permits: number of dwellings
• 412 Building permits: square metres of useful floor area or alternative size measure

By retail trade and repair statistics – 3 indicators

• By retail trade and repair statistics – 3 indicators
• 120 Turnover
• 210 Number of persons employed
• 330 Deflator of sales
• By market services statistics – 2 indicators
• 120 Turnover
• 210 Number of persons employed

• Carried out via X12 ARIMA

• By Industry statistics - since 2009

• Trade statistics – since 2009

• Price statistics – since 2009

• Construction statistics – since 2010

Short-term statistics

• Short-term statistics

• Integration (unification) of questionnaires

• Different time for collecting data (turnover, labour)
• Creating of metadata, quality management
• Electron questionnaire

• Seasonal adjustment

• Not confidence on accuracy of data
• Seasonal adjustment by NACE class and aggregation
• Publication of data
• Implementation DEMETRA

• Thanks !

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