Statistical%20Capacity%20Building%20in%20Africa%20%20Dr.%20Savas%20Alpay%20Director%20General%20SESRTCIC

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Statistical Capacity Building in Africa Dr.
Savas Alpay Director General SESRTCIC
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Statistical Economic and Social Research and
Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRTCIC)

• A subsidiary organ of the Organization of the
  Islamic Conference (OIC)
• The OIC was established in 1969
• It has now 57 member countries
• It is the 2nd largest International Organization
  after the UN
• 27 members in Africa, 26 in Asia, 2 in Europe and
  2 in south America

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Why Statistical Capacity Building?
Economists have come to feel What
cant be measured, isnt real. The truth
is always an amount Count numbers, only
numbers count.
(Chambers 1997)
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• 18 African OIC Members are below the World
  average
• 18 African Members are below OIC Average

• in
• National accounts methodology (SNA93 or SNA68),
• National accounts base year, balance of payments
  manual in use (BPM5 or BPM4),
• External debt reporting (actual, preliminary or
  estimate),
• CPI base year,
• Government finance accounting concept
  (consolidated or budgetary)
• Source All tables on statistical capacities are
  based on the data provided by the World Bank.

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African OIC Members performance is weaker than
both the World and OIC Average

• With respect to frequency of
• Population Census,
• Agricultural Census,
• Poverty Survey,
• Health Survey and
• The coverage of Vital Registration System

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The performance of African OIC Members is similar
to the average World OIC performance with
respect to World Development Indicators

• Income Poverty
• Child Malnutrition
• Child Mortality
• Immunization
• HIV/AIDS
• Maternal Health
• Gender Equality
• Primary Completion
• Access To Water
• Per Capita GDP Growth

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More than half of the OIC African member
countries are performing below the World Average
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SESRTCICs 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

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Outcome of the Survey

• 20 countries out of 57 member countries of OIC
  responded to the questionnaire. The response
  rate 35 .
• 8 of the African Members of OIC responded the
  questionnaire. 40 of the total responses.
• The most urgent 7 subjects are determined as
  follows
• General Statistics
• Labor Statistics
• Population and Demography
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Census/Surveys and Sampling
  Techniques
• Needs and capacities are matched by SESRTCIC.

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Training Programme of SESRTCIC Involving
African Members
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BAsic Social and Economic INDicators (BASEIND)

• BASEIND is the statistical database of the
  SESRTCIC and 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)

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Category-Wise Coverage of SESRTCICs Database
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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 generate coordination with
  other international organizations regarding
  training programmes.
• After the finalization of the e-learning
  programme being developed by a team led by the
  World Bank, new statistical capacity building
  techniques will be promoted.

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A Framework for Statistical Capacity Building

• 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 in cooperation with
  the NSO of Turkey. A new web based data
  collection system will enable the data transfer
  of each OIC member country to SESRTCIC online.

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• A proper and reliable data provision system will
  increase the quality and quantity of researches
  on the member countries of OIC.
• The quality and the coverage of the SESRTCIC
  statistics database can be improved if
  coordination with NSOs of the member countries is
  enhanced.
• The number of people visiting the website of
  SESRTCIC is at a considerable level (1000 people
  per day) so it is very much desirable that data
  about member countries should disseminate through
  this website.

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• Please visit our new website
• www.sesrtcic.org