Suriname: Technical Assistance Report-National Accounts Statistics Mission

International Monetary Fund

No 2017/187, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Technical Assistance Report discusses measures required to improve the national accounts of Suriname, including consistency with the System of National Accounts 2008. The General Bureau of Statistics (GBS) is expected to implement the recommendations of the IMF mission progressively over a five-year period. Given the staff time wasted on data entry and potential transcription errors, the GBS should give high priority to requesting the Ministry of Finance to provide the Government accounts data in Excel format for 2015 onward. With the support of the Finance Minister, the GBS also needs to implement a formal agreement with the Tax Department to share tax registration data, company income tax returns and sales tax returns.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; estimate; GDP; center; price index; KPV estimate; GDP-p estimate; GDP estimate; SUT estimate; CPV estimate; GDP-e estimate; current price; BM estimate; GDP-P estimate; Consumer price indexes; Data collection; Price indexes; Caribbean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 61
Date: 2017-07-20
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