Statistical Capacity Building

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• Statistical Capacity Building
• Indicators (SCBI)
• January, 2003

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Background History

• Developed by PARIS21 Task Team
• Convened by IMF
• We would like you partner on implementation
• What are they?
• How are they compiled?
• Who will administer them?
• What do they show?
• Use as a management tool
• What we will do with them.

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What is their purpose?

• Status of statistical capacity - evidence needed.
• Assess country statistical conditions.
• Needed for advocacy, country internationally.
• Management tool - highlight strengths
  weaknesses.
• We need to assess ourselves.
• Need to monitor progress.

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A Three Part Questionnaire

• 1. System-wide Indicators
• 2. Agency-related Quantitative Indicators
• 3. Data-related Qualitative Indicators

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1. System Wide Indicators

• Simple
• What Statistics Produced
• Most Recent Reference year
• Which Agency Responsible

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2. Agency-related Indicators

• Three Domains - 18 Quantitative Indicators
• GDP
• Population Statistics
• Household Income/Expenditure Statistics
• ?? Optional
• Any others - countries choice

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2. Agency-related Indicators(18 Quantitative
Indicators)

• Amount government funding (current capital)
  (2)
• Amount donor funding (money experts) (2)
• Number donors involved (1)
• Staff numbers turnover (2)
• IT equipment (computers, network, Internet,
  Website) (5)
• Number of surveys, censuses and administrative
  sources (3)
• Number of data releases. (1)
• Format of data releases. (1)
• Existence year of strategic statistics
  plan (1)

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3. Data-Related Indicators(18 Qualitative
indicators...

• Assess on Scale 1- 4
• Prerequisites
• Legal framework, confidentiality enforcement
• Coordination, user assessment planning of
  statistics
• Staff resources, pay conditions physical
  environment
• Management, evaluation change processes
• Integrity
• Professional standards, independence,
  transparency quality
• Methodological Soundness
• Internal/relational standards met

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.18 Qualitative Indicators)

• Accuracy Reliability
• Accuracy validation (source data, intermediate
  data, outputs)
• Methodologies used
• Response monitoring
• Serviceability
• User consultation, timeliness, periodicity, GDDS
• User opinion sought
• Accessibility
• Metadata revisions
• Dissemination methods and channels

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Benchmark Descriptions

• Rating Scale - Qualitative Indicators
• Level 4 Highly Developed Statistical System
• Level 3 Moderately Well Developed
• Level 2 Developing with deficiencies
• Level 1 Underdeveloped Statistical System
• Each Indicator with full description for each of
  4 levels
• (several issues for each indicator)

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Example of Benchmark

• 0. Prerequisites - Statistics Law
• Level 4 - Law gives agency full access to
  information, responsibility to compile
  disseminate assures confidentiality, enforced
  penalties for breaches of law.
• Level 3 - Limited access to information,
  responsibility, confidentiality, inadequate legal
  penalties.
• Level 2 - No effective access to information, no
  clear responsibility, no clear statement of
  confidentiality, no adequate enforcement.
• Level 1 - No statistical law, no responsibility,
  no confidentiality, no penalties, no enforcement.

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What do they show?

• Quantitative indicators quantify
• Statistics produced
• Success in obtaining resources, ability to use
  them to produce outputs
• Qualitative indicators measure
• Measures efficiency effectiveness of
  statistical production
• International statistical good practices followed
  
• Policy relevant statistical products, accessible
  to users

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How are SCBI compiled?

• Through a self-administered questionnaire
• Completed by data producers, and
• Coordinated by the National statistical agency

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Management Tool

• A snapshot of a specific units statistical
  conditions
• A focus on opportunities by highlighting
  strengths and weaknesses in producing a specific
  statistic
• A track results of capacity building efforts of a
  specific unit and/or production of a specific
  statistic - over time

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Users of SCBI

• International donor community
• Domestic policy makers
• Data producers

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Why Use SCBI

• If you cannot measure it..you cannot manage it!
• Advocacy Tool - measure problems - show successes
• Statisticians can argue case for more resources -
  using evidence
• Report regional international statistical
  capacity

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Experimental Period

• Now
• West African countries asked to try out
  questionnaire
• Return to Abuja with completed questionnaires
• In Abuja
• Report problems, solutions, reflections to
  PARIS21
• Advise us on familiarisation implementation
• Later in 2003
• Programme for implementation training
• Launch with co-ordinating agency

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PARIS21 Task Team on SCB Indicators Members and
Consultants

• Ms. Lucie Laliberté, Senior Advisor, IMF
  Statistics Department (Chairperson)
• Mr. Thomas Morrison Advisor, IMF Statistics
  Department
• Mr. Jan Bové, Chief, GDDS Unit, IMF Statistics
  Department
• Mr. Sarmad Khawaja, Senior Economist, IMF
  Statistics Department
• Mr. Lamine Diop, Director General, AFRISTAT
• Ms. Beverley Carlson, Chair, ISI Committee on
  Women in Statistics, ECLAC
• Mr. Jean-Etienne Chapron, Regional Adviser, UNECE
• Mr. Misha Belkindas, Team Leader, World Bank
• Mr. Graham Eele, Consultant/Statistician, World
  Bank
• Ms. Makiko Harrison, PARIS21 Coordinator, World
  Bank
• Mr. Antoine Simonpietri, Manager, PARIS21
  Secretariat
• Mr. David Allen (consultant)
• Mr. Tim Hold (consultant)
• Mr. Jan van Tongeren (consultant)

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Further Information

• PARIS21 Secretariat
• OECD
• 2, rue André-Pascal, 75016 Paris, France
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• http\\www.paris21.org
• e-mail paris21contact_at_oecd.org