Transcript Slide 1

Statistical Capacity Building Activities for OIC Member
Countries
by
Sıdıka Başçı (Ph.D)
SESRTCIC
Experts Group Meeting on Statistical Capacity
Building
IDB, Jeddah
April 29, 2007
Tasks of National Statistical
Organizations
• Collecting statistical data
• Processing and analysing these data
• Disseminating the final output
NSOs Necessitate Highly Qualified
Staff of Statisticians
To secure and keep maintaining such a
staff, the NSOs should:
• give special attention to their human
resource development needs
• analyse their needs and capacities in
order to determine their programmes of
capacity building.
Statistical Capacity Building
Programmes of International Organizations
• PARtnership In Statistics for Development in the
21 st Century - Paris21
• World Bank Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity
Building
• International Monetary Fund
• Different Departments of United Nations
Outline
• Training initiatives and activities of SESRTCIC
• A brief information on the Centre’s database
system and the process of collecting statistical
data from the OIC member countries
• A framework for statistical capacity building for
the OIC member countries.
A Survey on the
Needs and Capacities of NSOs
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
General Statistics
National Accounts
Balance of Payments Statistics
International Trade Statistics
Monetary and Financial Statistics
Government Finance Statistics
Real Sector Statistics
Price Statistics
Agriculture Statistics
Education and Training Statistics
Industry and Services Statistics
Labor Statistics
Environmental Statistics
Health Statistics
Science, Technology and Patent Statistics
Population and Demography
Web-based Data Compilation Techniques
Statistical Data Analysis
Census/Surveys and Sampling Techniques
Outcome of the Survey
• 20 countries out of 57 member countries of OIC responded to the
questionnaire. The response rate for this survey is 35 %.
• The most urgent 7 subjects are determined as follows:
General Statistics
National Accounts
Labor Statistics
Population and Demography
Web-based Data Compilation Techniques
Statistical Data Analysis
Census/Surveys and Sampling Techniques
• Needs and capacities are matched by SESRTCIC.
Training Programme of
SESRTCIC
Labor Statistics
Yemen
Countries which
declared
capacity for
training
Palestine
Statistical Data Analysis
Yemen
Palestine
Web-based Data Compilation
Techniques
National Accounts
Labor Statistics
National Accounts
Population and Demography
Census/Census Surveys and
Sampling Techniques
General Statistics
Statistical Data Analysis
Statistical Data Analysis
Census/Census Surveys and
Sampling Techniques
Population and Demography
Azerbaijan
Turkey
Indonesia
Morocco
Albania
Jordan
Jordan
Maleysia
Palestine
Turkey
Egypt
Egypt
February,
2007
February,
2007
February,
2007
May 2007
May 2007
May 2007
May 2007
May 2007
Maldives
Bangladesh
Mozambique
Mali
Egypt
Palestine
Uganda
Senegal
July 2007
July 2007
August 2007
August 2007
Sudan
Egypt
Sudan
Egypt
September
2007
September
2007
Subject/Areas
Census/Census Surveys and
Sampling Techniques
Countries which
declared
need for training
Time
E-learning Course
• E-learning course is a World Bank project where
staff who are able to develop and manage
statistical capacity building programmes and
projects and who can provide guidance and
support to the managers of statistical services
are educated.
• SESRTCIC applied for this e-learning course in
order to equip its staff with the methodologies
and the techniques of how to build new projects
for developing the capacities of the NSOs of the
OIC member countries.
BAsic Social and Economic
INDicators (BASEIND)
BASEIND currently contains data on 186 socio-economic variables under 15 different
categories for the 57 OIC member countries dating back to 1975. The categories that are
defined under BASEIND are:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Agriculture (27 indicators),
National Accounts (27 indicators),
Education (15 indicators),
Demography (14 indicators),
Exports (12 indicators),
Imports (12 indicators),
Transportation and Communication (12 indicators),
International Finance (11 indicators),
Money and Prices (10 indicators),
Industry and Manufacturing (9 indicators),
Energy and Mining (8 indicators),
Health (8 indicators),
Labour Force (8 indicators),
Public Finance (8 indicators),
Tourism (5 indicators)
Category-Wise Coverage of
SESRTCIC’s Database
on
portati
Tra ns
m
e
nc
na
Fi
ns
nicati o
o mmu
and C
is
ur
To
ic
bl
Pu
National Accounts
Agriculture
Demography
Education
ur
bo
a
L
Int
ern
ati
on
al
Fi n
an
ce
Indu
s try
an d
Man
ufac
turin
g
ne
Mo
es
Pric
nd
a
y
Ene
rgy
and
M
e
rc
Fo
Exports
Imports
Health
ini ng
A Framework for Statistical
Capacity Building
• Training activities will continue. The Centre is planning to
make a new survey after September 2007, with the hope
of a participation higher than 35%.
• Centre will try to create coordination with other
international organizations regarding training
programmes. A coordination with IDB can also be
possible.
• Depending on the outcomes of the e-learning
programme of the World Bank new statistical capacity
building techniques will be promoted.
A Framework for Statistical
Capacity Building (Continue)
• Indicators of Millenium Development Goals, indicators
related to environment, indicators related to science and
technology will be added to the database of SESRTCIC.
• Methods of data collection will be improved through an
ongoing project of developing a computer programme.
This project is carried out in cooperation with the NSO of
Turkey. This programme will enable the data transfer of
each OIC member country to SESRTCIC. The
programme will be introduced to the OIC member
countries, the first time, during the OECD World Forum
which will be at the end of June in Istanbul.
A Final Word
OIC gave the task of statistical data collection to SESRTCIC.
The quality and the extent of the database can be improved if
coordination with IDB and also with other international
organizations is provided.
The number of SESRTCIC website visitors is at a considerable level
(1000 people per day). It is highly desired that the data about Islamic
Countries could be disseminated to the world through this website.
A proper and reliable data provision system may also increase the
number of researches on the member countries of OIC.
Thank you.