FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTEMENT STATISTISTICS IN ALBANIA

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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTEMENT STATISTISTICS IN
ALBANIA
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CONTENT

• Legal framework for the FDI statistics
• Methodology

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Legal framework

• Law of Central Bank
• Law for compilation of Balance of payment
• Law in statistics
• Law for the 5 year of the statistical national
  program

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METHODOLOGY

• Administrative Business Register, since 1994
• Statistical Business Register, since 1998
• Sampling frame for FDI
• Questionnaire
• Training of the enumerators
• Data collection
• Problems and conclusions

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Statistical business register

• Background from the administrative register
• Variables of the statistical business register
  (identification and demography )
• Maintenance and update of the statistical
  business register
• Sub-register of the foreign companies and
  joint-venture companies

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Questionnaire

• Design from team of experts, InstatCB
• Content of questionnaire
• a) identification data
• b)annual accounts data( assets/liabilitiesprofit
  accounts,
• c)investments,
• d)adopted above mentioned indicators, for
  companies without annual accounts document
• Pre-test for the questionnaire
• Pilot test

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Problem's identified

• Lack of addresses
• Hugh number of closed enterprises(50,19)
• High rate of refusal(15,4)
• non contact enterprisessleeping enterprises
  (46, 16)
• High rate of out of scope(12,,15)

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Ways for improvements of the data collection
process

• Contact with associations of foreign companies,
  to reduce rate of refusal, Contact
  with ME and chamber of commerce
• Use of other administrative sources (VAT and
  annual accounts file of enterprises)

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Conclusions

• Improve feedback from central bank
• Conduct the survey for FDI in the regular base,
  yearly or quarterly
• Improve cooperation among institutions and
  associations