Accessing and using data Donor needs

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Accessing and using dataDonor needs

• Siobhan Carey
• Chief Statistician
• DFID

1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie
House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75
8EA
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Context

• DFID budget is increasing 12 pa
• Consensus around the Managing for Development
  Results Agenda
• Creates expectations
• So how can we help policy colleagues be more
  evidenced based?
• The stupid things that test us -
• Updates - not adequately referenced
• Lack of metadata
• Short lead in times
• country dialogue with centre - whos data to use
• What would make us more effective ?

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Context

• Programmes in almost 70 countries
• Over 500 advisory staff 10 disciplines
• Posting 2 to 4 years
• Managing knowledge is difficult in general
• Managing knowledge about data
• Got to be a better way
• better use of better statistics

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Looking for at expense of looking at

• Access
• All the data in a single space
• (WDI, UN, Country, DAC)
• Metadata means to hold/capture
• Ideally up to the minute - available on day
  produced
• Other stuff - capturing the knowledge -
  referencing
• Communication
• Tools to make the messages easy and quick to
  absorb
• Automating routine reports properly cited

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Portal for Development Indicators

• Prototype
• How feasible is it to have different data in the
  same space?
• Is it useful?
• Approached from two fronts
• content - tested using indicators from different
  sources - not comprehensive
• function - capturing the knowledge, additional
  graph and map features
• Used DevInfo for convenience

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If this was easy it would have been done already

• Issues around standards, definitions,
  classifications
• Content management
• getting stuff in
• handling revisions
• ownership / stewardship
• Ideally not just indicators - distributions,
  microdata, project data, expenditure data,
  outputs

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Questions

• Are these problems recognisable? shared?
• Have you found clever ways around it?
• Would something like this be useful?
• What else would be on the wish list?
• Should we go ahead and build?

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Expected benefits

• Better and more timely data analysis for policy
  and country offices
• More comprehensive analyses, using international
  data in conjunction with e.g. DFID expenditure
• Time saving in data extraction and presentation
• Easy and appropriate use by less-informed users
  including an enhanced awareness of the quality of
  the data for the end-user.
• Help resolve discrepancies between data sources
• Coherence of the data used across DFID
• Information about the data known to selected
  individuals is not lost.
• Autotmation of routine processes and reports

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An example of why it might be useful - education
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Still looking at NER
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Thats the why

• The what

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DevInfo v 4.0
Standard indicator selection Goal/sector Time Geog
raphy
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DevInfo v 4.0
Presentations in tables
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DevInfo v 4.0
Presentations in Graphs
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DevInfo v 4.0
Presentations in Maps
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The annoying paper clip
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Next steps

• Internal feedback is very positive
• Adding more content
• Deploying with a small group of users
• But our needs arent unique
• Have you a solution?
• Can you help find a solution?

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