Statistics on Cultural Industries - International Trade Centre

COMPONENT B - MODULE 2The Framework <strong>Statistics</strong> on Cultural Industries and in particular Component B, Module 2 likewiseforesees the need to elaborate the existing ISIC codes in order to capture the complexities and diversity ofactivities and products covered in this classification. The CPC classification system may certainly providea useful tool in this task.Implementation StrategyThe project will be carried out in collaboration not only with the NSO but also with relevantgovernment agencies dealing with the development of the country’s craft industries, culturalindustries and manufacturing SMEs as well as producers, associations, craft centres, etc., in orderto: (i) produce an appropriate registry of relevant establishments that are to be in the scope ofthe data collection survey; and (ii) ensure the full commitment and high response rate of theestablishments in the concerned industries, particularly in their data reporting during the dataenumeration stage of the survey.The survey and related activities specified below are to be carried out by the joint project teamconsisting of the team of international consultants recruited for the project and the NSO team (NSO’sresponsible staff for the project). The joint operation is particularly important since this project isexpected to create the basis for the development of a sustainable capacity in the NSO for industrialstatistics operations specific to the selected cultural industries. This means that counterpart staff ofthe NSO are expected to be involved in the whole process of the data development so that theywill become familiar with the management, co-ordination and operation of the intended regular(e.g., annual) data compilation, processing and publication.The proposed data production will consist of three steps in order to minimize the cost of datacollection and to avoid duplication of the target establishments’ data reporting:Step 1 – Compilation of macro and meso (e.g., provincial) data on the selected industrialstatistics by aggregating the establishment-level data that were reported by thetarget industries’ establishments to the NSO.Step 2 – Compilation of data from non-registered establishments in the target industries tosupplement the aggregates that would have been produced in Step 1.Step 3 – Estimation of aggregates for small-scale establishments based on readily availablemicro data (e.g., results of past industrial censuses and SSE, and household surveys).The project will be implemented with technical assistance from UNIDO, in co-operation withUNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok. Co-ordination and co-operation with the other datamodules of Component B and the other project components will be undertaken in terms ofshared information, co-ordination meetings, and the organisation of joint training as deemedappropriate.ScheduleSee implementation schedule in the general project description.33