This workshop was a follow-up to three workshops organized jointly by OECD, ADB and ESCAP, on Business Tendency Surveys, held in Manila from 16 to 19 November 1999 and in Bangkok from 21 to 24 November 2000, respectively, and on Key Economic Indicators held in Bangkok from 22 to 25 May 2000.

The  objectives of this particular workshop were to encourage wider use of these surveys and to encourage countries to adopt a core set of standard questions to make inter-country comparisons possible.  In the last two days of this workshop, participants exchanged experiences and gauged how much progress had been made thus far.  They also got hand-on training in analyzing composite leading indicators and predicting turning points of their economies.

List of participants

Tentative Schedule

Opening Statement

STAT/LIBTS/1(Revised) - OECD Cyclical analysis and Composite Indicators System (= A user guide for an MS Excel -based tool for cyclical analysis and for the compilation and study of composite indicators)

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STAT/LIBTS/2 - Pilot Business Tendency Survey Report: comparing business expectation survey and business tendency survey (Draft report)

(295KB)

STAT/LIBTS/3 - Growth cycles and leading economic indicators in India

(175KB)

STAT/LIBTS/4 - Quarterly business tendency survey in Viet Nam

• Presentation

STAT/LIBTS/5 - Harmonizing business tendency surveys: The results of the pilot survey in Indonesia

• Presentation

STAT/LIBTS/6 - Business expectations survey, Singapore

STAT/LIBTS/7 - Implementation of the harmonized business expectations survey questionnaires in the Philippines

(286KB)

STAT/LIBTS/8 - The harmonized business tendency survey in Malaysia: Progress Statement

STAT/LIBTS/9 - EUROSTAT: Seasonal adjustment interface  DEMETRA for TRAMO/SEATS and X-12 - ARIMA (User manual)

• Presentation

STAT/LIBTS/10 - EUROSTAT: Demetra application for seasonal adjustment

STAT/LIBTS/12 - Business Prospects Survey in Hong Kong, China

• Presentation

STAT/LIBTS/13 - The present status, progress and development of nationwide business survey in China

STAT/LIBTS/14 - Singapore: Singapore BT - CBRD Business Tendency Survey update

• Presentation

(88KB)

(140KB)