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3.154. There are few household surveys conducted
specifically for
balance of payments purposes; the most
usual such surveys are the periodic or ongoing surveys
that are conducted to collect information on travel
expenditure. It is common, however, to make use of
existing household surveys to collect extra information
for balance of payments purposes. Such sources include
migration statistics
and household income and
expenditure surveys.
3.155.
Official sector (government and monetary
authorities) data include data available from the detailed
accounting records of the monetary authorities and all
levels of government. These may supplement other data
sources or be used to validate data obtained from other
sources.
3.156.
Data on balance of payments services
transactions may also be obtained as a by-product of
administrative functions of the government.
For services
statistics, the most common of these are applications that
may be needed for residents to export or import services
and the records that may be kept relating to education
and health services provided to or by non-residents.
3.157. Information obtained from partner countries is
useful to provide data where it is not possible to collect
these directly within a country as well as to validate
other data collections and estimation methods. Data
from international organizations are particularly useful
for aid-recipient countries to compile data on technical
assistance services.
3.158. Compilers must consider many things when
choosing a method or methods
for estimating the various
services components, including the legislation that
permits data collection, the data that are already
available, the available resources, the needs of users and
the appropriateness for the particular country of the
various methods of data collection that might be used.
3.159. Information on some types of transaction may be
obtained from more than one data source.
If information
can be collected from more than one source, data can be
usefully cross-checked.
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