Forging Partnership in Training in Statistics: A way forward

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Forging Partnership in Training in StatisticsA
way forward

• Dr. S.K.Nath
• Director General, Central Statistical
  Organisation
• INDIA

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• Training is to the mind what physical exercise
  is to the body

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Situation Analysis

• Information is the key for any developmental
  activity
• Statistical System of a country is the mirror
  of the nation
• Statistical antenna

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Bread and Butter

• Statistics, IT and Data Analysis
• Policy formulation VS System Management
• Country needs VS International developments

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International Efforts

• PARIS-21 document on National Strategy for
  Development of Statistics (NSDS)
• Hanoi Third International roundtable conference
  in February 2007 identified weak statistical
  capacity as a key constraint for managing for
  better results.
• Meetings of Steering Committee of PARIS21
• MAPS Advisory board of World Bank

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Conceptual Framework

• Statistical Process Assessment and
  Re-engineering or SPARe
• Cross Country Statistical Coordination or CCSC.

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Statistical Process Assessment

• The is a study of identification of needs and
  related core statistical activities of a country
  to assess the system in terms of knowledge
  analysis and deliveries
• This calls for understanding the following
• Needs within the framework of NSDS
• Indicators associated with programme monitoring
  for attaining the societal needs especially MDGs

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Priority

• Statistical Process Assessment should look
  into the priorities/needs of a country such as
• Reduction of Poverty
• Improvement of Health Care programme
• Improvement of Education and Quality of life
• Enhancement of Economic Growth

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Core Statistical Areas

• Household Income Expenditure Statistics
• Employment/Unemployment Statistics
• Housing condition Statistics
• Village facilities Statistics
• Agriculture and land use Statistics
• Demographic Statistics
• Educational Statistics
• Health and family welfare Statistics
• Economic and Financial Statistics
• Informal sector Statistics
• Population and Migration Statistics
• Price and wage Statistics
• Disaster Management Statistics
• Natural Resource Accounting

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Benchmarking

• Benchmarking through development of a 5-point
  scale based on following parameters
• Trust worthiness in terms of transparencies
• Adoption of Statistical Standards
• Reliability in terms of methodology followed
• Data availability at sub-national levels
• Timeliness in data dissemination in terms of
  defined benchmark ( say, SDDS).

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Development of Road Map

• Essential Inputs for development
• Knowledge of socio-economic classifications
• Knowledge of survey techniques and survey
  operations
• Knowledge of System of National Accounts
• Knowledge of Data processing capabilities
• Knowledge in Computer / IT application

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Capacity Development Programme(CDP)

• To implement CDP, it would be necessary to
  develop a 7-point knowledge base scale to record
  score of each practicing Statistician on the
  following criteria based on specially designed
  questionnaire
• Knowledge in Socio-economic classification
• Knowledge in Survey techniques and sampling
• Knowledge in Health Information system
• Knowledge in National Accounts Statistics
• Knowledge in Large scale Data Processing
  techniques
• Knowledge in Computer applications in relation
  to RDBMS/ Statistical package and Networking
• Management Development programme

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Plan of Action for cross country statistical
care (CCSC).

• Directory of experts
• Directory of countries determined through SPARe.
• Uniform detailed guidelines for various training
  modules
• Workshops for senior Statisticians involving
  various important target groups

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INDIA EXPERIENCE

• Three tier regular programmes
• At entry level 2 years compulsory training for
  all Group-A Statistical officers as per SIDA-
  about 20 new recruits are there per year. The
  minimum education qualification is post-graduate
  degree in Statistics.
• Regular in-service capsule training programme for
  middle and senior officers about 250 officers
  are trained each year.
• Modular training programme for State officials
  and for sub-ordinate Statistical officers- about
  600 officers are trained each year.

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Demand based programmes

• Demand based programmes for States
• Special demand based programme for visiting
  officials from other countries both within ESCAP
  / Outside ESCAP programme
• Special programmes collaborated with UNSIAP /
  UNIFEM / UNSD and also ISI, Kolkata for ISEC
  students.

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Training Needs

• International programmes At present the officers
  are receiving training mostly within the country
  except a few under UNSIAP / JICA programme. The
  total number of such training abroad is very
  limited as compared to the need for training of
  about 500 middle level officers within a span of
  4-5 years. It may be examined whether the intake
  of UNSIAP / JICA programme could be enhanced in
  sectors relating to a) IT applications, b) Seoul
  based research programme c) Data analysis and
  reporting in international format and d) Emerging
  areas ( like NRA , Disaster Management Stat
  etc,).
• Domestic Programmes It takes care of only 7 tp 8
  of training needs for primary, secondary and
  middle level officers whose number is extremely
  high touching about 50,000 in number. Training
  needs are assessed in ACR.
• The detailed programme organised by India has
  been appended along with hard copy.
• The Indian training calendar is also available on
  the web namely, www.mospi.nic.in .

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Present Development

• India has constructed a world class training
  campus on about 37000 sq. meter land which will
  be furnished with state of art library IT lab
  facilities for practicing Statisticians of the
  country.
• This facilities will be open to International
  statisticians also.
• The new campus will have full residential
  courses of about 45 trainees at a time.
• The commissioning of the new infrastructure
  is expected to start from mid 2008.

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INDIA WELCOMES PARTNERSHIP

• India would welcome if ESCAP / UNSIAP use
  this facility as their regional hub training
  centre and would like to join in the partnership
  approach.

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• THANKS
• KHOKAN KHA