Objective
ICP Asia Pacific aims to:
- Strengthen and build sustainable capabilities for national statistics offices
of the participating developing countries to integrate ICP into their national
accounts and price collection systems, and
- Contribute to a regional and national structure for implementing the ICP
on an ongoing basis.
Scope
ICP Asia Pacific has two components: country
and regional.
The country component includes
- Establishing the greatest possible synergy between ICP data collection
efforts and routine national statistical programs;
- Strengthening institutional capacity through technical and managerial training
and assistance;
- Providing financial assistance and logistics, including hardware and software
for data collection, verification and processing;
- Creating and maintaining databases and improving the quality and timeliness
of the publication and dissemination of data;
- Promoting the use of data for policymaking and progress monitoring.
The regional component includes
- Developing a comprehensive and standardized survey framework;
- Organizing regional seminars and training designed to address issues related
to sample designs, data collection, verification and processing procedures;
- Organizing regional workshops designed to facilitate the sharing of best
practices in the production, dissemination and use of data. These will contribute
to the improvement of the quality, comparability and consistency of economic
data, and establishing and maintaining an up-to-date regional databank.
- Providing assistance to participating countries in the preparation of individual
county product list.
- Preparing the regional product list.
- Processing regional data, creating and maintaining regional databases, and
establishing regional PPP estimates and reports.
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