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The Data: Coverage,
Periodicity, and Timeliness
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Coverage characteristics
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5.1.1 Statistical
presentation
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- The
geographic coverage of the data is the whole nationwide territory.
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Data are disseminated
generally in millions of NT dollars on GDP at current prices and
chained-dollars with year 2011 as the reference year.
- The
estimates are compiled in both the production and the expenditure
approaches. GDP are disseminated by breakdowns as follows:
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A breakdown by kind of
economic activity into: agriculture, forestry, fishing and animal
husbandry; mining and quarrying; manufacturing; electricity and gas supply;
water supply and remediation services; construction; wholesale and retail
trade; transportation and storage; accommodation and food services;
information and communication; finance and insurance; real estate and
dwellings services; professional, scientific and technical services;
support services; public administration and defence, compulsory social
security; education; human health and social work services; arts,
entertainment and recreation; other services.
- A
breakdown by major expenditure categories as follows: private final
consumption expenditure; government final consumption expenditure; gross
fixed capital formation; changes in inventories ; and exports and
imports of goods and services.
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The data are based on the
2008 SNA.
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Periodicity
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4.1.1 Periodicity
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Quarterly
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Timeliness
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4.1.2 Timeliness
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Advance estimates : Approximately one month after the
end of the reference quarter.
Preliminary estimates : Approximately seven to eight
weeks after the end of the reference quarter.
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Access by the Public
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Advance
dissemination of release calendar
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5.1.3 Advance
release calendar
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A quarter-ahead advance release calendar showing the
"no later than" release dates is published on the DGBAS website (http://win.dgbas.gov.tw/dgbas03/bs7/sdds/english/calendar.htm
), which will be updated according to precise release dates 1 week
prior to the release.
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Simultaneous release to all interested parties
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5.1.4 Simultaneous
release
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The data are released simultaneously to all interested
parties by issuing a press release and on the national accounts website of
National Statistics. The websites are listed as follows:
http://eng.stat.gov.tw/lp.asp?ctNode=2008&CtUnit=1016&BaseDSD=7
(in English)
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Integrity
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Dissemination of terms and conditions under which
official statistics are produced, including ...
Confidentiality of individual responses
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0.1.1
Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics
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All statistics collected, compiled
and published by the DGBAS are governed by the Statistics Act and the
Enforcement Rules.
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The data on the national
accounts are disseminated by the DGBAS as a service to the public.
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Identification of internal government access to data
before release
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1.2.2 Internal
governmental access to statistics prior to release
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The information in the press release is
provided, under strict embargo, to the Premier, the Vice Premier and the
Secretary-General on the morning before official release.
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Identification of ministerial commentary on the
occasion of statistical releases
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1.2.3 Attribution of
statistical products
No ministerial commentary is released with these data.
DGBAS provides its own analytical commentary with these data releases.
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Provision of information about revision and advance
notice of major changes in methodology
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4.3.1 Revision
schedule
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Preliminary quarterly data are released in the
following quarter, and revised in the next of the following quarter.
The first annual revision for a given year are released
in November of the following year and the second revision will be released
in November of the next of the following year.
Comprehensive revision will be released every 5 years.
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1.2.4 Advance notice
of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques.
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Information on major changes in practices and re-basing
is provided in the yearly report in which these changes are first
introduced.
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Quality
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Dissemination of documentation on methodology and
sources used in preparing statistics
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5.2.1
Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis
of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques
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A description of the methodology is
published in the Appendix of “ National Accounts in
the Taiwan Area of the Republic of China”,
available from the contact person.
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Dissemination of that support statistical
cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness
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4.2.1 Internal consistency
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Quarterly national accounts are
estimated independently from the production side and the expenditure side.
This procedure enables cross-checks of both statistics. The results of the
estimation are released after the discussion and examination of the
National Accounts Statistics Evaluation Committee.
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