Seminar: “Official statistics for analyzing the productivity of the Russian economy”

The second open training seminar was held on November 26. The approaches to constructing performance indicators and the choice of statistical indicators depend on the tasks for which the performance analysis is required. These may relate to the study of interdependent, but not equivalent, phenomena—the development of technology, efficiency gains, lower real costs, the optimization of production methods, or higher living standards. Another important criterion when constructing performance indicators is data availability in national statistics.

The seminar covered general issues of performance measurement, and using Russian official statistics for performance analysis. In particular, the seminar addressed questions of how to ensure the correspondence between performance indicators and actual tasks for analysis; what opportunities are provided for this by the official Russian statistics; where data and methodological descriptions are published; and how the official performance numbers compare with the Russia KLEMS performance.
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