Transcript Training and Regional Workshops by Duncan Millard

Improving data quality through IEA
training and regional workshops
Duncan Millard
IEA Chief Statistician
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IEA’s global data outreach
Countries we have data for
Countries for which we
only have aggregate data
Plus engagement with other Energy organisations eg APEC, Olade, etc
Growing demand in IEA and other users for NMC data
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Non-member data
 Voluntary data collection – IEA has no mandate
• 110 countries and growing and 3 aggregate world regions – allows
compilation of World energy balance
• Collected in multiple formats – whatever the country can provide: but
official data
• Use of secondary sources and estimations – when country cannot
provide data
• Communication with country contacts on identified data issues: can they
help us solve it?
• 1 month data review process across IEA to seek additional input
• Issues of data availability persist – for some countries energy data
collection is ad-hoc process
• IEA often seen as the reference when it comes to energy data: others
reconcile or calibrate their data/models to us.
• How do we improve quality
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Improving data quality in several ways
Technical Assistance:
Training and capacity building:
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 Regular bi-annual
Barriers assessments
Data processing missions
Guidance documents
 Regional, topic-specific
 Collaboration with other
programmes/organisations
Continuous data
quality
improvement
Data collection, processing,
dissemination and use:
 Building and maintaining country
contacts
 Dialogue with analysts and users
 Expanding data coverage and reach
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Training and capacity building
 IEA expertise in training recognised
 35 participants at March and October training, creating a
network of alumni
 Special consideration for Association countries: reserved places,
side meetings, etc.
 Regional, issue specific trainings: Indonesia coal,
Viet Nam legislative basis
 New manuals and translations of guidance documents: Russian
guidance documents for questionnaires, revised energy
statistics manual
 Providing publications to data providers, assisting them with
difficult data interpretation questions.
 Keeping energy statistics at the forefront of energy policy
discussions
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Stats training at IEA March 2016
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IEA & APERC Training Workshop
(Hanoi, December 2015)
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Reinforcing the learning
Senior policy level seminars workshops
• focus on: policy use, data governance, data sharing, access
to admin data
• Elements added to all training
Webinars
• Being piloted to support and reinforce formal training
• Option of leading on on-line package – working with Olade
Alumni Network
• On line Blog space to allow trainees to raise questions
with each other and us, share knowledge and be part of
wider group
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Selected country activity (1)
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Fact-finding study in South Africa to identify barriers to producing energy balance and energy
end-use data. Plan to continue working with them to help implement recommendations from
the study.
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Completed two years of capacity building with India to improve their ability to compile a
national energy balance. Training in Delhi (20 energy data collectors), 8 Indians attended our
training in Paris, 3 secondees worked in EDC for 3 months each. Outcomes : better contacts for
energy data in India, solved some key data problems, awareness at high level within India’s
government that high quality energy balance needs to be a priority. EDC chaired a meeting
with India’s Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board and 7 representatives from IEA
countries in New Delhi in early 2015
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Received 9 secondees from China in last 10 years (none in last 4 years, due to lack of
funding). Helped strengthen China NBS core knowledge about energy data and created strong
links between IEA and China. Results included: expansion of energy balance to include new
renewable energy forms. Joint training with UN followed by workshop for provincial
statisticians in May 2016
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Selected country activity (2)
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Workshop being planned for May 2016 – senior level for cooperation and integration,
followed by 3 day technical training
Hoping to help them improve their coal data collection, which is the main data issue in
Indonesia and really dwarfs all the other problems in their statistics.
4 energy statistics training events in last 6 years. Three-day training scheduled for April 2016.
Besides six people attended on the Paris ESC weeks.
December 2015 a two-day workshop on legislative basis followed by a three-day course on
energy statistics was held in Hanoi. Follow up work on road map for intergration of statistics
under way. An Energy Statistics Course dedicated to Viet Nam was held at the IEA in Paris in
November 2012.
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Current main stats problem is the grey zone concerning how annexed territories data are
collected and processed (checks with Russian data to do).
Three-day annual visit from the Ukraine energy statistics team to improve the quality of the
five fuel questionnaires.
Three training events have been organized in Ukraine since 2010, including on energy
efficiency, plus three people attended the Paris course.
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Global action
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Close collaboration with other international energy statistics organisations (APEC, OLADE,
OPEC, UNESCWA, UNSD) on harmonisation of definitions and methodology to reduce
reporting burden on countries and move towards more consistent energy data internationally.
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New MOU with OLADE to allow interaction between staff to achieve better understanding of
their data collection methodology for South American countries.
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Work with EU-funded INOGATE programme to help improve energy data from former Soviet
Union countries. Now 8 countries reporting on joint questionnaires.
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8 energy statistics trainings conducted (over last 3 years) in Africa in collaboration with African
Energy Commission (AFREC). Created simplified questionnaire for African countries and
trained them on how to use it. Outcomes better contacts in certain countries, increased data
submission, recognition that more needs to be done at the country level to improve their
capacity to collect better energy data. Energy efficiency October 2015. Training conducted
with EU-funded TARES project in Egypt to help them build better energy balances and energy
efficiency indicators.
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3 training events with UNESCWA (over last 3 years) for Middle East countries, discussing one
for 2016. Additional outreach efforts are needed to improve data quality in those countries.
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IEA to support global
energy efficiency statistics
 Building on experience with Members and proposing an
internationally coherent framework to target partners’
priorities
 Sharing capacity-building tools and expertise:
• Template for harmonised data collection
• Free manual on efficiency indicators statistics
(translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish)
• Online database on data collection practices
• Training capacity – formats vary
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Energy data collection for Non-member countries (and
members!): a process focused on continuously improving
data quality.
Thank you
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