Tanzania Socio-Economic Database

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Tanzania Socio-Economic Database

• Tanzania/UNCT Presentation to ECOSOC
• Implementing the Internationally agreed
  Development Goals National Perspectives and
  Strategies
• July 7, 2005, New York
• Cletus P. B. Mkai
• National Bureau of Statistics
• United Republic of Tanzania

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What is TSED?

• TSED is an indicator and database system
  facilitates systematization, storage and analysis
  of performance indicators allows user-friendly
  access to data and presentations in Maps, Graphs,
  Tables and Reports allows grouping of indicators
  in different frameworks, e.g. integrating MDGs,
  PRS, etc
• It is institutionally based at the National
  Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and supported by over
  20 Government Ministries and Institutions,
  including Bank of Tanzania. Maintenance and
  updating is done at NBS. TSED has been a good
  example of how successful partnerships between
  the Government and its bilateral partners (UNDP
  and UNICEF) can be.
• TSED is currently running on stand-alone and on
  web (www.tsed.org) Tanzania is one of the two
  countries piloting this DevInfo web version

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Why a common database?

• Data not easily accessible disperse in various
  institutions restricted use within Ministries
  and Institutions format not easy to access,
  read and process no proper documentation
  (definitions /metadata)
• Enhance statistical capacity and literacy Two
  focal points in more than 20 TSED collaborating
  Ministries and Institutions continuously being
  trained on how to use and update the database.
• Support evidence-based advocacy as a database,
  TSED allows public advocates to monitor progress
  of international, regional and national goals and
  commitments

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Who are the target users of TSED?

• 1. Increasing use for policy design and
  implementation
• Government officials / Parliamentarians
• Local Government planners and policy makers
• Staff involved in day-to-day policy making and
  planning
• NGOs
• Staff of NBS incl. Regional Statistical Officers
• Donors
• 2. Stimulating public monitoring of policy
• VPO
• NBS
• Universities and research centers
• 3. Improving social communication
• Media

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Where is data from?

• Line Ministries
• Routine data collection systems e.g. Ministry of
  Education, Health, Water, Agriculture
• Surveys/Censuses
• Population and Housing Census, Household Budget
  Survey, Demographic and Health Survey, Integrated
  Labour Force Survey, etc.
• Special research conducted in various areas
• Data from various sources available in TSED is
  disaggregated by gender, rural/urban strata and
  age groups
• Data available at national, regional, district
  ward level data for pop counts

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Use of TSED in Poverty Monitoring

• TSED as a tool for storage and dissemination of
  all quantitative information is at the very heart
  of the poverty monitoring systems. Most of the
  MDGs and targets are incorporated
• To highlight priorities using empirical data
• To inform the public and policy makers on
  progress on Poverty reduction indicators and MDGs
• To trigger action to meet time-bound targets
• To contribute towards the design of policies
  based on evidence
• To create public interest in progress at home and
  abroad
• Database contain Themes highlighting Poverty
  (currently), Goals highlighting MDGs and Sector.

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TSED Database
Indicators by Themes
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TSED Database
Indicators by Goals, e.g. MDGs
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MDG 1, Target 1 Food Poverty Line
Population below the Food PL

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Population below the Food PL
MDG 1, Target 1 Food Poverty Line
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MDG 1, Target 1 Basic Needs Poverty Line
Population below the Basic Needs PL

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Population below the Basic Needs PL
MDG 1, Target 1 Basic Needs Poverty Line
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MDG 4, Target 5 Under five Mortality
Regions
Districts


Deaths per 1,000 live births
58 - 133 134 - 163 164 - 175 176 - 217 Missing
data
Census 2002
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Under five mortality
MDG 4, Target 5 Under five Mortality
DHS series. Note The figure for 2004-05 TDHS is
112 per 1,000 from the Preliminary Report
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Under five mortality
MDG 4, Target 5 Under five Mortality
Note The figure for 1978, 1988, and 2002 are
from Population Censuses
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MDG 2, Target 3 Net Enrolment
Source BES 2004
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TSED facilitate disagregation..
Primary NER - Regions

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Primary NER -- Districts
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MDG 5, Target 6 Births attended by skilled
Health Personnel


19.6 32.9
33 44.4
44.5 86.7
Missing Data
DHS 1996
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MDG 7, Target 10 - Accessibility to safe drinking
water
Regions
Districts




Per Cent
21 38 39 57 58 -88
Census 2002
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Opportunities and challenges offered by the MDGs
framework

• Opportunities
• There was in place a national policy framework
  and poverty monitoring system, that made
  integration of MDGs easy
• TSED is at the very heart of the poverty
  monitoring system facilitating storage and
  dissemination of all quantitative information
  generated by the poverty monitoring system i.e.
  from the routine data collection systems and
  Surveys and Census.
• Challenges
• To collect/collate the full complement of data
  sets to compute indicators under a number of
  targets e.g. target 9 (Goal 7)
• Always producing indicators allowing addressing
  equity issues in relation to MDGs, i.e by sex,
  rural/urban strata, regions and so forth, in
  order to strengthen the national policies and
  strategies and make them more targeted and
  effective

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Thanks You for listening.
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