Ashgabat, 11 March 2021: Within the framework the joint project “Strengthening the institutional, statistical and information-technical capacity of the State Statistics Committee”, jointly implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the State Statistics Committee of Turkmenistan,  a two-day online seminar “Statistical features of input-output tables and supply use tables for Satellite Tourism Accounts” was held with the support of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).  The workshop was led by Japanese  international expert Professor Masaaki Kuboniwa, who has more than 40 years of experience in economics.

Representatives of the State Statistics Committee of Turkmenistan and the Central Bank of Turkmenistan engaged in macroeconomics and balance of payments took part in this seminar. The aim of the seminar is to strengthen methodological, informational, and human resources potential of the national accounts of Turkmenistan by demonstrating the peculiarities of compiling the "supply-use" table and "input - output" tables. These tables allow making a qualitative analysis of the flows of goods and services in the economy, since they are built on the basis of a comparison and assessment of data obtained from different sources.

“It should be noted that the activities of one of the components of this project are aimed at implementing a conceptual transition from the SNA 1993 to the SNA 2008 version, which implies improving the methodological framework and human resources of TurkmenStat,” said Rovshen Nurmuhamedov, UNDP Assistant Resident Representative in Turkmenistan.

Considering the impact of tourism on both the world and the national economy, as well as the fact that tourism statistics is the most important source of analytical information about the tourism sector, during the seminar participants discussed the "supply-use" and "input-output” tables to calculate the tourism satellite account and at the same time the experience and practice of other countries in this area was highlighted.