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CONFERENCE ON DATA QUALITY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
ROME, JULY 2008
Development of Metadata Framework for
National Agricultural Statistics:
Recent Experience in Asia and Middle East,
and Plans for Expansion to Other Regions
FAO Statistics Division
7 July 2008
Preparation of Country Reports
• Questionnaires
• Annotated Outline:
– National System of Agricultural Statistics
– Major Domains of Selected Indicators of
Agric. Stat.
– Major Data Sources
• Presentation at APCAS 21
Consultation and Feedbacks from
Countries
• Initial draft country reports reviewed by
BAS/FAO Committee: comments
• Modified (First) draft were discussed at
Workshop, in Manila in 2006:
• Gaps
• Problems and difficulties
• After workshop, countries revised again their
reports
• Revised Reports discussed at Focal Points
Meeting of RDES, in Cambodia in March 2007.
Preliminary Review of Country
Reports
• Major publications:
– yearbooks on agric. stat
– Quarterly indicators of agric stat (price)
– Occasional report on agricultural
census/survey
– Chapters on agric. stat. in national statist.
yearbooks
– Trade statistics
Preliminary Review of Country
Reports (2)
• Major Domains:
– production; price; foreign trade; agricultural
inputs; agric. credits; food consumption; rural
communities and infrastructure
• Data Sources:
– agricultural census
– agricultural production survey
Relationship Between Major
Domains and Data Sources
• In general, agricultural surveys and
census produce data for the domains of
production, prices, employment
Plans for Expansion to Other Regions
• The FAO Metadata Framework will be implemented in
other regions started with 17 countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) under the BMG-funded CountrySTAT
project.
• One of the main activities in the CountrySTAT project is
to analyze the situation in countries and prepare
benchmark reports on food and agriculture data and
metadata in the countries.
• The Metadata Framework will provide the overall
framework for the preparation of these country reports.
• These benchmark reports will provide reference for
evaluation of the impact of project in terms of data
accessibility, data quality, and data dissemination.
CONCLUSION
• FAO metadata framework provides a possible
answer to “What should adequate Metadata
be?”
• Metadata helps users interpret agric. stat.
• Metadata framework is useful for producers to
improve the food and agric. stat. system
• To obtain good metadata, joint efforts are
required by all concerned parties
• Post country reports to countries’ RDES page
THANK YOU