Non-observed economy: practice, issues and improvement directions for its measurement

The author summarizes his point of view on novations in the Russian methodology for measuring the NOE that was carried out after the introduction of the corresponding assessments based on the international standards’ principles introduced into in the regular statistical practice in the 1990s. In the description of the methodological foundations of the NOE in Russian statistics are reviewed major stages of its evaluation and organization of the work of Rosstat adjusting GDP (calculated using three methods) on the volume of economic transactions, non observed by direct statistical methods; commented are examples of measuring parameters NOE to industry statistics, characterized by major ways of improving methods of incorporating estimates of the NOE in the calculation of macroeconomic indicators.

ненаблюдаемая экономика, теневая экономика, незаконная экономическая деятельность, деятельность в неформальном секторе экономики, производство домашними хозяйствами для их собственного конечного использования, методы исчисления ВВП, методы прямого статистического наблюдения, методы косвенного статистического измерения ненаблюдаемой экономики, non-observed economy (NOE), shadow economy, illegal economic activity, activity in the informal sector, household production for the own final use, GDP calculation methods, direct methods of statistical observation, methods of indirect measurement of the NOE