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Guatemala: Technical Assistance Report-Statistics Technical Assistance and Training Evaluation Mission

November 13, 2015

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Guatemala: Technical Assistance Report-Statistics Technical Assistance and Training Evaluation Mission, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 23, 2024

Summary

This paper discusses the key findings of the report on statistics technical assistance (TA) and training evaluation mission on Guatemala. It is observed that overall users trust macroeconomic statistics in Guatemala. Data-producing agencies viewed TA and training provided by Statistics Department, IMF during 1998–2015 as most effective to improving the quality of statistics. There is broad recognition of the Bank of Guatemala’s key role in producing and disseminating statistics. There was consensus that TA and training were effective and helped enhance data quality of all datasets, but to a modest extent Government Finance Statistics and Producer Price Index. The effectiveness of TA largely depends on capacity built in the main data-producing agencies.

Subject: Data dissemination, Economic and financial statistics, External sector statistics, Government finance statistics, Labor, National accounts, Producer price indexes

Keywords: Base year, Central America, CR, Data dissemination, Data-producing agency, Evaluation mission, Evaluation mission, External sector statistics, Government finance statistics, Guatemala, Information, ISCR, Macroeconomic statistics, Position data, Recipient agency, Review TA report, Reviews Guatemala's data, ROSC mission, TA mission, TA provider, TA recommendation, Technical assistance

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    50

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2015/306

  • Stock No:

    1GTMEA2015001

  • ISBN:

    9781513546995

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685