Abstract
This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes data module provides a review of Azerbaijan’s data dissemination practices against the IMF’s General Data Dissemination System (GDDS), complemented by an in-depth assessment of the quality of the national accounts, consumer price index, producer price index, government finance, monetary, and balance-of-payments statistics using the Data Quality Assessment Framework. Azerbaijan meets and in many cases substantially exceeds the GDDS recommendations on periodicity and timeliness for its macroeconomic statistics. The three main agencies responsible for compiling macroeconomic data have broadly adequate legal powers.
I. State Statistical Committee of the Azerbaijan Republic
THE CHAIRMAN
Inshaatchflar Ave Balcu 370136
Tel: 38 1-7l.
Fax: +(994 12) 38-24-42
E-mail: ssc@azstate.org
February 10. 2003
No. 2-14
Ms. Carol S. Carson, Director
Statistics Department
International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C. 20431
Dear Ms. Carson:
The State Statistical Committee of the Azerbaijan Republic has examined the final version of the data and the attached detailed assessment, which includes factual corrections made by the State Statistical Committee, and we wish to report that we do not have any comments and we have no objection to publication of the ROSC report.
Sincerely yours,
Sgd:
A. Veliev