Official Statistics

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Official Statistics
United NationsStatistical Institute for Asia
the Pacific
ECONOMIC
S U B J E C T S
How well-off is the society of the
country? What activities are being pursued to
improve well-being of people?
SOCIAL
DEMOGRAPHIC
ENVIRONMENTAL
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Official Statistics
United NationsStatistical Institute for Asia
the Pacific
ECONOMIC
S U B J E C T S
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Official Statistics
United NationsStatistical Institute for Asia
the Pacific
SOCIAL
S U B J E C T S
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Official Statistics
United NationsStatistical Institute for Asia
the Pacific
DEMOGRAPHIC
S U B J E C T S
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Official Statistics
United NationsStatistical Institute for Asia
the Pacific
ENVIRONMENTAL
S U B J E C T S
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Official Statistics
Development Goals
50s
from A Strategy for Development by Nicholas
Stern of the World Bank, May 2001
60s
70s
80s
90s
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Official Statistics
Development Goals
50s
Growth of GDP
ECONOMIC
60s
Growth of per capita GDP
SOCIAL
70s
DEMOGRAPHIC
80s
ENVIRONMENTAL
90s
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Freedom Indicators

• freedom notion of poverty
• whether, or to what extent, a person has the
  capabilities and environment for action and
  success
• empowering poor people to shape their own lives

Opportunity education health care
Empowerment participation inclusion in
social organizations
Security social protection making adjustments
from economic shocks
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Official Statistics
ESCAP FOCUS 2001
ECONOMIC
REDUCTION OF POVERTY
S U B J E C T S
Managing GLOBALIZATION
GENDER MAINSTREAMING Womens Empowerment
EMERGING SOCIAL ISSUES
SOCIAL
HRD of YOUTH
DEMOGRAPHIC
EQUALIZATION of opportunities for people w/
disabilities
ENVIRONMENTAL
Population AGEING
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Official Statistics
MDGs
Eradicate extreme poverty
S U B J E C T S
hunger
ECONOMIC
Achieve universal primary education
SOCIAL
Promote gender equality empower women
DEMOGRAPHIC
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
ENVIRONMENTAL
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria
Ensure environmental sustainability
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A Review of the SIAP/UNDP NHDR Project

• United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and
  the Pacific, 2002

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Challenges

• Demand Statistics required by NHDR
• Availability
• Quality
• Disaggregated information
• Supply inadequate statistical infrastructure

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Project (Course) Modality

• Implemented through providing training courses,
  workshops, seminars at both country and
  regional levels
• Provided training materials, lecturers and
  resource personnel
• Collaborated with NSOs, coordinated with, often
  supported by UNDP country offices

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General Objective

• To establish and strengthen national capability
  in areas of collection, analysis, interpretation
  and disaggregation of reliable statistics for
  effectively assessing and monitoring impact of
  economic and social policies on human development

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Specific Objectives

• To introduce the concepts and arouse the interest
• To instill awareness of the data needed and
  foster cooperation
• To provide knowledge and understanding of
  statistics used in NHDRs

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Major Achievements

• Preparing training materials (public domain)
• Organizing 15 country courses a subregional
  (Pacific) course in Statistics for NHDRs
• Completing two country courses, a subregional
  (Pacific) course in Sample Design and
  Establishment/Household Survey
• Organizing a subregional workshop and a regional
  seminar

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Culminating Subregional Workshop Regional
Seminar

• Serving as a forum for middle- and senior-level
  official statisticians to exchange country
  experiences, to discuss and evolve practical and
  relevant solutions to problems faced in the
  statistical work relating to NHDR preparation
• To be exposed to the good practices and
  approaches adopted in the region
• To identify areas of additional training for
  further strengthening national capabilities

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Impacts

• Sensitized statistical officers on current issues
  relating to NHDRs MDGRs
• Participants requested to advocate the active
  participation in next NHDR MDGR preparation by
  UNDP
• To generate up-to-date reliable data and
  indicators to provide useful measures and tools
  for policy discussions

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Lessons to Be Drawn

• Demands increase NHDRs, MDGs, PRSP
• Beneficial to NSOs building up capacities and
  capabilities through training and participation
• Coverage to be broader and subjects to be deeper
  in training
• Share other country experiences
• Extend the training to more countries

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Consolidated Findings in Chiba Seminar Bangkok
Workshop

• United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and
  the Pacific, 2002

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Current Situation of NHDR Statistics

• Most countries have data available for NHDR as
  routine at the national level but lack seen at
  the sub-national levels
• Challenges include
• Limited personnel financial resources
• Data consistency among line ministries
• Quality of data produced by other producers, and
• Need to put data together in user-friendly package

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Generating NHDR MDG Statistics

• Drawing inventory of required statistics for
  NHDRs MDGRs
• Processing administrative records
• Including new data requirements in existing
  surveys
• Improving coordination among data producers, e.g.
  line ministries
• Applying advanced statistical techniques, e.g.
  small area estimation network sampling

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Generating NHDR MDG Statistics

• Key Collection efforts
• Population census
• Household surveys income expenditures,
  demographic health, labour force
• Vital registration system
• Other administrative data systems, e.g. education

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NSOs as Advocate of NHDR MDG

• Providing relevant and comparable indicators and
  disaggregated data
• Including selected statistical tables
• Portraying data in tables, graphs, and maps to
  attract the attention of the public and policy
  makers
• Updating NHDR MDG statistics regularly

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NSOs Experience with NHDRs

• Supplied most of the data for NHDRs but only few
  participated actively directly in preparation
• Revealed inadequacy in NSOs in terms of data gaps
  irregularity in data collection as well as
  insufficiency in budget allocation, manpower
  knowledge base on NHDRs MDG
• Participation of NSOs would both strengthen the
  quality of NHDR MDG statistics upgrade NSO
  capabilities

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Inactive Participation of NSOs
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NSOs Collaboration with UNDP

• Extent ranged from no direct to very minimal to
  significant technical financial assistance,
  e.g. Vietnam, Mongolia, Pacific Island Countries
• UNDP should support advocacy programs for use of
  NHDRs MDGs in national policy promoting NSO
  role in the process

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Evaluation of SIAP Courses on NHDRs

• Very relevant the subject was new to NSOs
• Multiplier effects motivating NSOs to plan to
  collect data for NHDRs MDGs
• Problems a general lack of clear mandate to NSOs
  lack of necessary institutional arrangements
  made it difficult to build upon the training
  received
• Improvement to translate training materials into
  national language for wider application

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Follow-up Actions Training

• A wide range of training levels was desired
• Country courses for technical staff
• Subregional/regional training for middle-
  senior-level officials
• Modalities in training were suggested
• Training of trainers
• CD kits containing training manuals
• Availability of on-line manuals, questionnaires,
  reports publications
• e-learning (distance education)

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Follow-up Actions Training (Contd)

• Training areas requested in
• Emerging statistics, e.g. environment, gender,
  poverty, HIV/AIDS, informal sector, and time-use
  surveys
• Methodologies, e.g. small area estimation, data
  mining, rapid assessments
• Data processing, analysis, and dissemination,
  e.g. population census analysis
• Adopt strategy to tap experts from NSOs with
  successful NHDR experiences