Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and household and personal goods

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Wholesale and retail trade repair of motor
vehicles and household and personal goods

• By
• Mathew Oduor
• Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

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Introduction

• The Government through reform agenda enacted the
  new Statistics Act 2006 that replaced the
  Statistics Act CAP 112, enacted in 1962 to meet
  the challenges posed by increased demand for
  information. The Act established the Kenya
  National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), a Semi-
  Autonomous Government Agency responsible for
  coordination, supervision and development of a
  National Statistical System that collects,
  analyzes and disseminates national statistics as
  well as develops and maintain a national
  statistical database. The Act commenced
  operation from 1st February 2007.

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Establishment based Surveys/administrative records

• Establishment based Surveys/administrative
  records
• Monthly Survey of Industrial Production survey
• Labour force survey Annual
• Bussiness expectation enquiry
• Foreign trade statistics Monthly
• Banking and insurance data Annual
• Hotels and conferences statistics Monthly
• Migration Statistics Monthy
• Government Finance Statistics Annual
• Agriculture statistics Monthly
• Transport and Communication Monthly/Annual

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Outline

• Wholesale and retail trade
• Repair of motor vehicles and household and
  personal goods

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Wholesale and retail trade

• Output
• is measured by total value of the trade margins
  realised on the goods they purchase for resale.
• Trade margin
• The difference between the revenue of goods sold
  and the value of goods purchased for resale

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Definition of Output in 1993 SNA

• Value of output
• The value of sales, including sales at reduced
  prices
• Value of other uses of goods purchased for
  resale (e.g. remuneration in kind to employees)
• - Value of goods purchased for resale
• The value of additions to inventories of goods
  for resale
• - the value of goods withdrawn from the
  inventories of goods for resale
• - The value of recurrent losses due to normal
  rates of wastage theft or accidental damage

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Output

• Calculated as the sum of adjusted trade margins
  in the commodity flows both at current and
  constant prices.
• An addition of 10 is made for a likely
  underestimation of margins on goods sold for
  intermediate consumption and for services that
  are not included in the trade margins.

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Intermediate consumption

• Estimated at 54 of output.

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Compensation of employees

• The Labour Enumeration Survey (LES) .

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Repair of motor vehicles and household and
personal goods

• Output.
• Benchmark for 2001 is estimated by
• The number of cars average cost for repair and
  maintenance.
• Constant Prices
• Extrapolated (run forward) with the number of
  vehicles for the estimates.
• Current prices
• Derived by reflation with CPI, transport.

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Intermediate consumption

• is estimated at 55 of output, which is based on
  evidence from other countries

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Problems/weaknesses

• Business register
• No major survey done, most of these ratios are
  based on other countries experiences

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Dissemination

• Mainly disseminated through
• The annual economic survey report
• The annual statistical abstract
• KNBS website
• Specific requests

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Thank you