IMF Staff Country Reports

This Technical Assistance report on Botswana focuses on details of National Accounts mission. The draft Census of Economic Establishments (CEE) questionnaires finalized during the previous mission in March 2023, have been tested. Some improvements were identified and have been incorporated into the CEE questionnaires. The mission and team commenced development of the data collection and data processing manuals. The deflator issues raised by the IMF country team were discussed. The Statistics Botswana (SB) indicated they had resolved these issues after the Ministry of Finance raised the same concern. SB are planning to use the tax list to identify the sample frame for this rebase. SB need to commence discussions with Botswana Unified Revenue Service to determine the sample frame as soon as possible. The sample design will have an impact on the data processing system. The mission reminded the team that they should be consulting now with the Population and Housing Census data processing team to obtain the data required for the rebase.