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Compiling

National Accounts,

Balance-of-Payments

and Foreign Trade

Statistics in the

Framework of the

Coronavirus Disease

(Covid-19) Health

Emergency 1

INTRODUCTION

This document was prepared by the Statistics Division through its Statistics Division, has decided to conduct a
of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the survey of the situation to determine the effects that the
Caribbean (ECLAC) on the basis of two videoconferences health emergency is having on statistical institutions’
held with representatives of Latin American countries , work. To this end, the Division has launched a series of
2
as well as exchanges with regional experts . surveys and held videoconferences with representatives
3
of the national statistical offices and central banks of the
As a result of the health emergency caused by the countries of the region, and international organizations,
COVID-19 pandemic, the countries of the region have as well as experts and consultants. Until now, the focus
declared states of emergency and applied measures to has been on social and price statistics (in particular,
restrict economic and social activity, which affect the consumer prices).
compilation of basic statistics. In this context, ECLAC,

1 OECD (2020), Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020, OECD Publishing, Paris. https://doi.
org/10.1787/1256b68d-es.
2 Representatives of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) of Argentina, the Central Bank of Ecuador, the
Bank of Guatemala, the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) of
Mexico, the Bank of Mexico and the Central Bank of Uruguay participated in the first videoconference. Representatives of all the
Latin American countries were invited to participate in the second videoconference. 71
3 Lourdes Erro, Salvador Marconi and Juan Carlos Propatto.