Duration of assignment: 7 months
Narrative description of Project:
Ameria CJSC with the support from UNFPA, is implementing the National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA) Framework for Armenia. This pioneering initiative extends the results of Ameria’s earlier National Transfer Accounts (NTA) project—which informed Armenia’s Demographic Strategy 2024–2040 and Employment Strategy 2025–2031—by incorporating time-use and unpaid work data into national economic statistics.
The NTTA framework quantifies the economic value of unpaid activities such as caregiving, household production, and volunteer labor, highlighting their contribution to social welfare and national productivity. Using data from the 2023 Full-Scale Time Use Survey conducted by ArmStat and UN Women, the project will produce Armenia’s first set of standardized NTTA tables, integrate multiple data sources, and apply innovative estimation models to fill data gaps.
Ameria also leads a capacity-building program for government experts, statisticians, and researchers, enabling institutional adoption of NTTA within Armenia’s statistical and policy architecture. The resulting analytical report will provide a gender-sensitive and intergenerational understanding of Armenia’s care economy, informing reforms in social protection, labor policy, and gender equality. The project positions Armenia as a regional leader in the integration of unpaid work into macroeconomic analysis and strengthens its standing within the International NTA Network as a contributor to global knowledge on inclusive economic measurement.