On July 10-14 this year, the city of Almaty (Kazakhstan) hosted the fifth regional seminar on government finance statistics and public sector debt statistics on the topic “Improving the quality of fiscal statistics”, organized by the Regional Capacity Development Center for the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia of the International monetary fund.
The seminar was attended by representatives of public finance and statistical services of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
From the Agency of Statistics, the head of the Division of Coordination of Statistical Evaluation of the Hidden Economy of the Department of Macroeconomic Indicators and National Accounts Kamilova Ziyoda took part.
The main goal of the seminar is to develop the knowledge and skills of participants on the compilation of government finance statistics and public sector debt statistics and the use of these data in national accounts statistics.
During the event, the participants exchanged views on methods for improving the sources of information necessary for the formation of indicators for government finance statistics and national accounts.