Statistics on Cultural Industries - International Trade Centre

Domestic Product (GDP) and related macro-economic aggregates such as domestic consumption,investments, saving, etc. The data information is collected by NSB from various governmentorganizations and private agencies, and then validated.The 2004 edition of the National Accounts <strong>Statistics</strong> of Bhutan was revised to bring the estimatesin line with the United Nations System of National Accounts 1993 (SNA 93). The report publishesrecent information in line with the indication of SNA 93. In addition, some sectors were furtherdisaggregated into sub-sectors and presented separately in order to provide the users with moremeaningful information.The sectors and sub-sectors considered in the report include: agriculture; mining and quarrying;manufacturing; electricity and water supply; construction; wholesale and retail trade; restaurantsand hotels; transport, storage and communication; finance; insurance and real estate; communityand social services (government); private social and recreational services.While the data listed in these publications are aggregated, it is possible to revisit this data to accessmore detailed information about sub-sectors of the economy.The NSB has also, since 1987, published the Statistical Yearbook of Bhutan, a comprehensive andsystematic compendium of basic statistical information on Bhutan, covering a wider range ofstatistics than the National Accounts <strong>Statistics</strong> of Bhutan, which similarly are derived from secondarydata from various sources.At the moment it is not possible for NSB to produce comparisons over time but with thedevelopment of a database system for the storage of the statistical data produced by the NSB, thiswill become possible.<strong>Statistics</strong> on Cultural IndustriesFramework for the Elaboration of National Data Capacity Building ProjectsThe domains in the Statistical Yearbook of Bhutan cover population; health; education; humanresources; land use and agriculture; industries; transport and communication; energy; tourism;foreign trade and balance of payments; money, banking and finance; public finance; plan outlays;gross domestic product; prices; and crime.Labour <strong>Statistics</strong> and Establishment SurveysLabour statistics have been collected since 1998 through a Labour Force Survey. This importantsurvey was repeated in 2000 by the NSB. The third round of the Labour Force Survey (2001) wasconducted by the Department of Employment and Labour. The fourth and the fifth rounds werecarried out by the Department of Employment of the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources in2003 and 2004, respectively. At the moment the future of this survey is uncertain and it is unclearwhether the survey will be repeated or not. It may be more productive to integrate the laboursurvey with other surveys undertaken by the NSB. As the survey has only been carried out once ayear it is not possible to estimate the seasonal effect in the labour market.Household SurveysSeveral recent activities have contributed to the upgrading of the national statistical capacity aswell as the compilation of important information.Most important of these is perhaps the undertaking of the Bhutan Living Standard Survey (BLSS)- a nation-wide survey of households carried out by the NSB in 2003. The BLSS followed the LivingStandards Measurement Study (LSMS) methodology developed by researchers at the World Bank72