BUENOS AIRES, July 13, 2009
PRESS STAFF
As you know staff in various media media has given prominence to the resignation of Professor Graciela Bevacqua at INDEC, filed on January 29, 2009.
is clear that such reputation is based on the expectations regarding the results of the Consumer Price Index, which is well known influence on the CER, which adjusts the public debt.
Much has influenced the collective imagination, introducing the replacement of Ms. Bevacqua for the conduct of the Bureau of Consumer Price Index (CPI) as the most blatant attempt of manipulation and destruction of official statistics. Professor Graciela Bevacqua "strangely" appears in recent days in various print media and television, making offensive statements to the entire workforce of the INDEC.
The wave of "statements" describe features require some means of providing Bevacqua labor and the Index managed under his leadership, guaranteeing workers' right to know the Institute as a whole reality of what happened.
For Ms. Bevacqua:
- Bevacqua is criminally prosecuted as co-author of the crime of falsifying a perfect competition with that of fraud to the detriment of the public administration, repeated twice ( Articles 54, 172 of the Penal Code, based on the 174, paragraph 5 and 293 of the Code). This prosecution is developed as a result of his performance as director of the Office of Consumer Price Indices, due to be certified to provide overtime Belforte Luciano agent, enabling the payment thereof. This man was demonstrably outside the country, yet they present in the forms included and attendance of the Directorate.
- Between 2007 and 2008, Ms. Bevacqua did not go to service for 403 days: 9 days were absent with notice, 40 days sick leave, 247 days of sick leave during treatment, and 107 days in regular annual license fees. It is of note that throughout the period of absence the person concerned received the 100% of its assets, under the national budget.
- When Ms. Bevacqua stated that he "canceled holiday, it is noteworthy that a person who once occupied a leading position not know basic rules of allocation of licenses. The regular annual license for a previous year can be enjoyed until 30 November next year. In November 2007, applied for leave for 31 days, from 20 November to 20 December of that year. Applying the regulatory framework is approved the license until November 30, completing another application until the date requested by the applicant. His first installment of license was interrupted by a sick leave which began on November 26 and concluded on 30 that month. As of December 1 was reassigned to the Library of the Ministry of Economy requested by the Program on Prevention of Mental Health at Work, coordinated by the Department of Occupational Medicine of the Ministry. This division has stated on 27 November 2007 that the discharge from Ms. Bevacqua " is subject to the effectuation of this redeployment ." All documents submitted in this institute shows the inconsistency of public statements Bevacqua and shows its vain attempt to victimization.
- respect to its claims in relation to their intention to work in the CPI of the National Institute of Statistics of Uruguay (INE), and with regard to dialogue between the Director and the Director of the INDEC, considerations should be made relevant, reported on Wednesday 8 of power to the Director of INE. First, the Ethics Act N º 25,188 Civil Service states that " all officials and state employees should not use information acquired in the performance of their duties for activities not related to official duties ..." (art. 1 and 2 inc. F, second part). What is actually shown is that Bevacqua intended to appear before the Government of its inability to work, receiving 100% of salary, and time to receive remuneration for work of UNDP through consulting in the sister Republic of Uruguay. In our Criminal Code, the figure is called fraud on the public administration. Second, in his own statement says that it was unable to work, a fact confirmed by the Program on Prevention of Mental Health at Work, as is stated in the previous section. Finally, it should be noted the "confusion" Bevacqua conceptual, since a point is that the INDEC provide international technical assistance through its agents, and quite another to make his officers paid consultants "independently" while receiving their salaries from the national budget.
- regard to his background in the INDEC, Ms. Bevacqua has two entrances to the Agency on different dates. The first, between November 1984 and January 1986, during which time he served in aid as an analyst, having resigned. The second, from September 1992 (as supervisor), and finally journal in the level hierarchical scale C.
- Ms. Bevacqua agreed not to contest a charge of driving for work history in the INDEC, and only served as Director of the Consumer Price Index on a temporary basis for a year and a half.
- The current National System of Public Employment (SINEPAD) states that the career ladder can only be filled by graduates of university degree of four or more years. Ms. Bevacqua not meet this requirement, as is Professor of Mathematics, Physics and cosmography, tertiary level qualification.
- Since its resignation, made effective in early 2009, he joined a consulting firm called the Buenos Aires City, is falsely attributed to belong to the Faculty of Economics, UBA, a fact repeatedly denied by the authorities of the home high school.
- asserting that the methodology currently used 13 of INDEC wonder where it obtained the information to form the local sample, how to get the weighting structure at the level of variety to calculate the Index, how it manages to generate an index considering only aggregates regardless of the varieties, how they compare their results with those produced by the Institute structure that mobilizes more than 100 field surveyors who cover the whole area Gran Buenos Aires (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and 24 districts of Greater Buenos Aires). Or INDEC uses information that is not public-or its index is close to meeting basic quality standards.
- Graciela Bevacqua is attributed in his curriculum vitae, published on page http://bsascity.googlepages. Com-
the authorship of " Consumer Price Index Gran Buenos Aires, base 1999. Methodology 13 ", unaware that the copyright belongs to the INDEC, and directly responsible for this publication was Mr. Heber Camelo, not she, who at the time of the development of the methodology only operated as an assistant to Ms. Myriam Fischman, who was the director of the Bureau of Indexes Consumer prices, as appears from the Methodology 13.
regard to the management of IPC by Bevacqua:
- From the first working day of January 2007, a major newspaper in the city anticipated the GBA CPI result, even when not had started the survey of any price. Weekly advances provided to authorities, coincided exactly with the information published in the newspaper weekly.
- On many occasions it has provided confidential information, with varying degrees of disaggregation, to non-members of the National Statistical System, including private consulting, "without any administrative act which authorized it.
- During his tenure there was a total lack of receipt of confidential information, had the highest level of access to the database of people who did not work index in the management of the IPC and others that no longer worked at the institution.
- The final draft of the press release submitted for the month of January 2007 was tampered with computer gadgetry, by two professionals who are members of the team at Bevacqua. The fact was duly noted by the General Government Clerk's Office, giving the proceedings a copy of the relevant ministerial authorities.
- To make corresponding changes to the variety Domestic Service, instead of drawing a representative sample, approves a list of people with job performance in the Ministry of Economy and the INDEC-some of them with the rank of Director- including family. These situations went so far include responses from people with no home personal services, counting among them the charge of the survey. These decisions violate the good practices in official statistics and collide with any ethical standard. Accordingly, such conduct is under investigation. This is compounded when taking into account that the weight given to the domestic variety was superior to that of fresh bread.
- For price surveys were generated varieties with specific brands other than those normally used in calculating the CPI, as opposed with the current methodology. Such work is usually done by private consultants as part of market research on specific brands for which they are hired.
- The 818 varieties GBA measuring the CPI base 1999 = 100 were selected for full convertibility phase, reflecting the consumption of imported goods of high quality. As you may remember, since the exchange rate was fixed, these products "amesetaban" index. You can not deny that low-income sectors were unable to access these consumption, damaging the representativeness of the indicator. That
- variety selection -Including many examples like the roses of Ecuador, cat neutering, travel to Cancun, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, imported whiskey, coffee beans, among others, was complemented by a selection of local neighborhoods inhabited by people with high purchasing power, where the characteristics of demand tends to validate major price increases. For example, in Liniers, Villa Lugano and abattoirs, as well as other areas with a lot of people did not take local prices as butchers, greengrocers, etc..
- CPI Bevacqua managed by not updating the varieties in order to reflect the true consumption population, although the methodology so established: on the case after the entry into force of the Generics Act was not updated the list of medications, even when this information was available in detail in the Ministry of Health the Nation, nor were replaced national tourist destinations, despite having this information at the Institute, or international destinations excluded despite the end of convertibility, among many other cases. Index
- That was not, then, representative of the entire population of the area, such as establishing the methodology-but mainly in the sectors of high and medium high consumption.
- Countries with consumer price indices measure monthly nationally representative fewer than 818 varieties selected in the IPC-1999 = 100 base GBA: 491 in the case of Spain, 350 in the United States . It also indexes prepared by the INDEC relieved prior to 1999 amounts to approximate the latter. A good indicator is one that measures consumption varieties actually representative of the population to which you referred.
- regard to specific practices to drive this work program until the end January 2007, regular audits showed, among other things, that:
- By providing indicators related to price movements in tourism, fail to take into account comprehensive information generated by the same INDEC, as the Survey Hotel Occupancy developed by the Agency itself in conjunction with the Ministry of Tourism of the Nation. This violates the internationally recommended practices, while ignoring changes in consumption, referring to the sector.
- methodological errors were committed involving price changes did not reflect the Actually, as long as no adjustments were made "changes in quality." For example, when replacing a car base for a full model, where variations do not respond to price changes but benefit.
- were kept in the sample of many local informants who did not have a single price for a period exceeding one year. These situations usually respond that the variety is no longer available, and consequently the local informant should be replaced. However, their persistence in the sample was not available to impute prices (assign a dummy value).
The said work would not respond to what determines the Resolution No. 779/2004, Decree resulting from approving the structure of the Ministry of Economy, about the actions that must meet the Office of Consumer Price Indices.
These brief descriptions of some of the anomalies express administrative, budgetary, organizational, methodological and ethical performance that characterized the work program until January 2007.
The failures and distortions briefly reviewed provide evidence that the supposed neutrality of "technical" declared Ms. Bevacqua not stop to express, once again, to the unfounded criticisms aimed to discredit our organization and its workers only respond to the clear intention of benefiting interest groups, and not the public interest.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS AND CENSUS
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