9.00 -10.00 |
1. Registration |
10.00 - 10.30 |
2. Opening of the workshop
- ECLAC
- Banco Central do Brasil
- UNSD
- Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)
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Coffee Break |
10.50- 12.20 |
3. Statistics of International Trade in Services
- Overview of the developments in statistics of international trade in services (UNSD)
- Status of statistics of trade in services in the Latin American and Caribbean countries
(ECLAC)(ALADI)
- Overview of the 2005 Panama workshop on trade in services recommendations (ECLAC)
- Overview of the result of the pre-workshop questionnaire on the status of trade in services statistics in the Latin American and Caribbean countries (ECLAC/UNSD)
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Lunch Break |
Afternoon session (Chairperson: Ms. Carol Coy, Statistical Institute of Jamaica)
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14.00 - 15.30 |
4. MSITS and its revision
- MSITS revision process (UNSD)
- The MSITS Revision and its Impact on the Balance of Payments Compilation in Brazil
(Banco Central do Brasil)
- General discussion
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Coffee break |
15.50 – 17.00 |
5.
The revision of the Balance of Payment Manual (BPM6)
- Overview of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Manual (BPM6) (OECD)
- General Discussion
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Wednesday, 2 December
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Morning session (Chairperson: Mr. Fernando Lemos, Banco Central do Brasil )
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9.00 – 10.30 |
6. Services transactions between residents and non-residents; the Extended Balance of Payment Services (EBOPS) classification
- Definition of services in SNA 2008 (UNSD)
- Use of sources of International Trade in Services in the System of National Accounts (IBGE, Brazil)
- Statistics of export of services in Brazil: difficulties, limitations, challenges, good practices and results for the 2003-2007 period (IBGE, Brazil)
- General discussion
- EBOPS
- General discussion
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Coffee Break |
10.50 - 12.20 |
7. CPC ver. 2.0 and EBOPS/cpc correlation - BOP/EBOPS/CPC (UNSD)
- General discussion
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8.
Approaches to data compilation
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Afternoon session (Chairperson: Laudia de Camino, UNECLAC)
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14.00 – 15.30 |
(b) Enterprise surveys
- Introduction (UNSD)
Banco Central del Ecuador
- General discussion
9. Other data sources and estimations
- IBGE, Brazil
Central Bank of Chile
Banco Central de Venezuela
MDIC, Brazil
- General discussion
10. Statistics by partner country
- Introduction (UNSD)
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos Argentina
- Banco Central do Brasil
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Coffee Break |
15.50 - 17.00 |
11. Foreign affiliates statistics (FATS)
- WTO
Central Bank van Aruba
- General discussion
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Thursday, 3 December |
Morning session (Chairperson: Antonio Godoy, BANCO CENTRAL DEL PARAGUAY) |
9.00 - 10.30 |
12. Trade in services statistics by mode of supply
- WTO
Contraloria General, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censo, Panama
Costa Rica Central Bank
- General discussion
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10.50 - 12.20 |
13. Metadata and quality of the trade in services data
- UNSD
Statistical Office, St Vincent and the Grenadines
- General discussion
14. Submission of trade in service statistics to international organization
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Afternoon session |
14.00 - 15.45 |
15. Group discussion: cooperation of the NSO and the central bank in data collection, data compilation and dissemination practices, data quality checking procedures and metadata, problems and solutions |
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16.00 - 17.00 |
16. Presentation of the group discussion |
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Friday, 4 December |
Morning session |
9.00 - 12.30 |
17.
Roundtable discussion: Towards improved SITS in the Latin American and Caribbean countries (Chaired by UNSD) |
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Lunch break |
Afternoon session (Chairperson: Vladimir Markhonko, UNSD) |
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18. Conclusions and recommendations of the Workshop |
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19. Evaluation and closing of the workshop |