Transcript Experience of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosna i Hercegovina
Agencija za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
PARIS 21 Meeting on Strategic Planning
in Statistical Development for Fragile
and Post-Conflict States
Experience of European Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina
New York, 20 February 2010
Background
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Geographic position: South East of Europe,
Balkan peninsula
Territory: 51.197 sq km
Estimated population: 3.8 million
Capital: Sarajevo
Recognised by UN in 1992
Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH)
Statistical system in BH reflects complex institutional
structure of the state:
Legislation
The BH Law on Statistics was imposed by OHR (Office of
High Representative) in 2004
The responsibility of the Agency for Statistics of BH
(Agency):
• To define statistical standards,
• to produce and disseminate statistical data at the State
• international representation and co-operation
The Director of Agency - the Chief Statistician of Bosnia and
Herzegovina
The Entities legislation not fully harmonised with the state
level legislation
Strategic planning
At the state level through consultations with Entity
statistical institutes
Multi-annual Statistical Programme and annual plans have
to be are approved by the Council of Ministers of BH
The Statistical Council- advisory body (11 members, six out
of them coming from statistical institutions)
The Entities strategic documents have to be aligned with the
State level documents
Strategic planning, continuation
The latest adopted is Multi-annual Statistical
Programme 2009-2012.
Priorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the process
of Euro Atlantic integrations
Professional and reliable producer of high quality
statistics comparable
Data in line with EU and international standards
and regulations.
Strategic planning, continuation
Our vision:
• Compliance with international and, especially, EU
standards and regulations;
• User-friendly orientation;
• More modern approach in collecting, processing and
dissemination of data ;
• Improving quality of statistical data;
• Implementation of new ICT technologies and
innovations;
• Application of the same statistical legislation,
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and
European Statistics Code of Practice, by all producers of
statistics;
• Capable and motivated staff;
• Improving working conditions.
Strategic planning, continuation
Lengthy and quite slow process (three institutes
involved)
State level priorities not recognised as the first
and most important by the Entities institutions
One Entity requests the production of certain state
level statistics
Agreement on the implementation of harmonized
methodologies and standards in preparing the statistical
data
Problems of Statistics in Bosnia
and Herzegovina
• Lack of cooperation between entities statistical
institues
• Cooperation with other relevant institutions
insufficient
• Administrative data sources not properly
established still
• Insufficient number of employees
• Limited absorption capacity and sustainability of
achieved results
• Lack of professional knowledge is evident in many
areas
Problems of Statistics in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, continuation
• Financing big statistical activities still
depends on donors
• The development of methodologies takes
time
• Unavailability of required micro data at the
state level
• Data dissemination is not well established
•
Problems of Statistics in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, continuation
• Major obstacle - political context
(Complex political situation reflects in
statistics)
The example of negative political influence:
Population and Housing Census in BH, round
2010
Risks:
• continuation of current policy in general and its
reflection in the statistics
• existence of three parallel statistical laws
• not harmonized strategic dokument and plans
• lack of cooperation between all “players” in
the statistical system
• insufficient finance resources for further
development
• insufficient human resources
Conclusions
Bosnia and Herzegovina has complex administrative
structure and harmonization of legislation goes
slowly
Problems in statistics similar to those in other small
countries but also specific ones
Change of political climate is a precondition for better
functioning of the statistical system
Better cooperation between statistical institutes and work
on common priorities and objectives are necessary
Thank you for your attention!
Zdenko Milinovic
Director
Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zelenih Beretki 26, 71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tel: + 387 33 22 06 26
E-mail: [email protected]
Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina at:
www.bhas.ba