Transcript Slide 1

SESRTCIC Statistical Activities:
Improving Cooperation With
NSOs of the OIC Member
Countries
Statistical Economic and Social Research and
Training Centre for Islamic Countries
(SESRTCIC)
The Centre is a subsidiary organ of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) started its
activities in Ankara on 1 June 1978.
The basic mandate drawn up for SESRTCIC is threefold:
To collate, process and disseminate socio-economic statistics and information on and for the
utilisation of the member countries,
To study and evaluate the economic and social developments in the member countries to help
generate proposals that will initiate and enhance co-operation among them, and
To organise training programmes in selected fields geared to the needs of the member
countries as well as to the general objectives of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
SESRTCIC Statistical Activities
•
Collecting, Processing and Disseminating Statistics and Information
•
A System of Computerised Databases
•
The Centre’s Website (www.sesrtcic.org)
•
Statistical Publications (Hard Copies and Electronic Format)
•
A Specialised Library
•
Training Programmes for Statistical Capacity Building in NSOs of the Member Countries
•
Other Activities
•
SESRTCIC Regular Meetings with NSOs of the OIC Member Countries
Collecting, Processing and Disseminating
Statistics and Information
•
The Centre serves as a major socio-economic information bank on and for the OIC member
countries.
•
The Centre regularly collects, processes and disseminates statistics and information from
both the national and international sources of the member countries.
•
Thus, the Centre provides the necessary statistical data and background information that
would make the member countries better informed of each other’s potentials and needs
and, thus, facilitates their elaboration of cooperation projects and integration schemes.
A System of Computerised Databases
•
The Centre maintains a system of computarised databases that support time series data
collection at regular intervals from both the national and international statistical sources of
the member countries.
•
The Centre is currently developing a Statistical Data Collection and Dissemination
Software System.
•
This is a new searchable and dynamic system whereby up-to-date statistical data on over
200 indicators will be electronically collected from the 57 member countries.
•
This system will enable the users of the Centre’s website to performe graphics or raw database cross-searching on the Centre’s statistical databases.
The Centre’s Website (www.sesrtcic.org)
•
The Centre is extensively engaged in electronic publishing to ensure a more expanding
circulation of its statistical data and information through its website.
•
The centre’s website has, in recent years, developed into a wealthy and dependable source
of information on the 57 member countries of the OIC and is being visited by an increasing
number of users the world around.
•
The Centre has very recently designed a new version of its website that will facilitate the
development of the new Statistical Data Collection and Dissemination Software System.
•
The new version of the Centre’s website will also allow enriching and frequently updating
the Centre’s statistical directories such as those of universities, statistical experts,
research institutions, etc.
•
Roughly 1000 users daily visit our website and after the developemnt of the Statistical Data
Collection and Dissemination Software System, this figure is expected to be more than
triple in less than two years.
Statistical Publications
(Hard Copies and Electronic Format)

The rate of dissemination of our statistical publications have been greatly increased due to
the successive improvements we made on the technical capacities and design features of
our website.
•
Statistical Databases: our statistical databases have been enriched in terms of both the
coverage and content. New thematic and sectoral databases have been developed on fields
such as environment, education, women, etc., and the number of indicators and variables
have also been increased.
•
Statistical Directories: such as those of universities, statistical experts, environmental
experts, research institutions, etc.
•
Statistical Yearbook of the OIC Member Countries.
•
Basic Facts and Figures on the OIC Member Countries.
•
Information Series on the OIC Countries: such as agriculture, tourism, education, etc.
A Specialised Library
•
The Centre’s library functions as a depository library for the World bank since 1987 and
houses more than 5100 of its publications.
•
The Centre has recently authorised a free access to the World Bank databases and efforts
are also being made to designate our library as a depository library for the IMF with a free
access to its databases.
•
In an effort to further extend its statistical and information services, the Centre has recently
launched its electronic library to provide all remote researchers the possibility of browsing
its rich collection of socio-economic reference material and statistical publications.
Training Programme for Statistical Capacity
Building in NSOs of the Member Countries
•
The Centre has recently initiated a training programme for Statistical Capacity Building in
NSOs of the member countries.
•
The programme aims at exploring the possibilities of matching the needs and capacities of
the NSOs in the member countries and investigating the most practical ways of sharing their
existing capacities.
•
In so doing, the Centre regularly circulates a questionnaire on the needs and capacities of the
NSOs of the member countries and based on the assessment of the responses of the
member countries, the Centre arranges for short-term training courses on various areas of
statistics.
Training Programme for Statistical Capacity
Building in NSOs of the Member Countries
 The Areas of Statistics Specified in the Questionnaire 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
Training Programme for Statistical Capacity
Building in NSOs of the Member Countries

The Results So Far Obtained
•
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 areas 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
Training Programme for Statistical Capacity
Building in NSOs of the Member Countries
Subject
Labor Statistics
Statistical Data Analysis
Web-based Data Complation Teq.
National Accounts
Labor Statistics
Population and Demography
Census/Census Surv., Samp. Teq.
National Accounts
Statistical Data Analysis
General Statistics
Statistical Data Analysis
Census/Census Surv., Samp. Teq.
Population and Demography
Census/Census Surv., Samp. Teq.
Country that
Declared
the Need
Yemen
Yemen
Azerbaijan
Indonesia
Morocco
Jordan
Jordan
Albania
Bangladesh
Maldives
Mozambique
Mali
Sudan
Sudan
Country that
Declared
the Capacity
Palestine
Palestine
Turkey
Maleysia
Palestine
Egypt
Egypt
Turkey
Palestine
Egypt
Uganda
Senegal
Egypt
Egypt
Time
Feb., 2007
Feb., 2007
Feb., 2007
June 2007
June 2007
June 2007
June 2007
August 2007
August 2007
August 2007
Sept 2007
Sept. 2007
Sept. 2007
Sept. 2007
Other Activities

The Centre has been welcomed as a new member of the Committee for the Coordination of
Statistical Activities (CCSA) at its 8th Session held in Montreal, Canada, in September 2006.
•
The CCSA agreed to set up a Task Team to explore how to improve the coordination of
technical cooperation programs in statistics at the sub-regional level, and the World Bank
was asked to take the lead in getting the Task Team established. The Centre is a member of
this Task Team.

The centre applied for the World Bank’s 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.
•
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.
Other Activities (Continued)

The Centre has become part of the Africa Statistics Training Task Team of PARIS21.
•
The Team was organised by PARIS21 at at the 5th Session of the Committee on
Development of Information (CODI-V), held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 29 April-4 May
2007. Two Senior Researchers of the Centre are now members in the Team.

The 9th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences 2007 (ICCS-IX).
•
The Conference will be organised in December 2007 jointly by the Centre, the Malaysian
Institute of Statistics and the Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences. On the
sidelines of the Conferenc, the Centre will organise a special session on “Improving
Statistical Capacity Building in the OIC Member Countries”.

News from the NSOs of the Member Countries.
•
The Centre is currently preparing a new section in its website to disseminate the NSOs
short reports on basic indicators of their countries.
SESRTCIC Regular Meetings with NSOs of the OIC
Member Countries

Since its inception in 1978, the Centre has organised four meetings with the Heads of
NSOs of the member countries (HNSOs) as follows:
The 1st HNS0 in Ankara in November 1979, with the participation of 15 NSOs.
The 2nd HNSO in Istanbul in October 1982, with the participation of 12 NSOs.
The 3rd HNSO in Ankara in June 1998, with the participation of 18 NSOs.
The 4th HNSO in Lahore in February 2004, with the participation of only 6 NSOs.
•
Unfortunately, the above-mentioned previous general meetings with the Heads of the NSOs
seem to be unsatisfactory in terms of the rate of participation.
SESRTCIC Regional Meetings with NSOs of the
OIC Member Countries

In an attempt to enhance its regular meetings with the Heads of NSOs of the member
countries, the Centre has organised the following two regional meetings during this year
as special sessions on the sidelines of different regional conferences:
•
The Centre organized on 17th January 2007 a special meeting for the representatives of the
SNOs of African member countries on the sidelines of the 2007 Africa Symposium on
Statistical Development, which was held in Kigali, Rwanda, on 15-19 January 2007.
Representatives of 16 SNOs attended the meeting.
•
The Centre organized a special session on “Statistical Capacity Building” on 4th May 2007
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa (UNECA) as part of the 5th UNECA Session on Development of Information in Africa.
Representatives of 19 NSOs attended the meeting.
Thank you
Presenters’ contact details
?
[email protected]
+90 312 468 6172 ext. ?
SESRTCIC
[email protected]
+90 312 468 6172 - 76
© 2007 SESRTCIC. All rights reserved.