Improving sufficiency and responsiveness of economic statistics is very important in achieving policy objectives of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Officials in the NSOs and economic related ministries achieve knowledge on economic statistics, including National Accounts in the framework of System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA); advanced topics in National Accounts; regional core set of economic statistics; statistical business registers; International Comparison Programme/ Purchasing Power Parity (PPP); government finance statistics; and industrial statistics including banking, airline and wholesale; Supply and Use Tables serve as the basis for compiling a range of accounts such as regional accounts as well as National Accounts including computation of effect of globalization, digitization and sustainable development including wellbeing.
Household consumption and expenditure surveys (HCES) have been typically undertaken to compile information for important macroeconomic indicators, such as consumer price indices, and to provide input into national accounts. With time, the use of HCES has been extended to welfare and poverty analysis, and more recently to food security and nutrition analysis. The food data collected in HCES provides core information for these types of analyses.
