The roadmap of the NSDS

1
The roadmap of the NSDS

• NSDS Seminar
• World Bank
• Ministry of Statistics and Analysis
• Minsk, 15 16 March 2007

2
The milestones on the road and the prerequisites
of the ISIS

1. Statistical metadata base
2. National statistical register
3. Statistical frames
4. Methodology of design of statistical
   questionnaires
5. Electronic intelligent questionnaires
6. Register of statistical questionnaires and input
   data
7. Optimization of statistical data collection
8. Use of administrative records for statistical
   purposes
9. Statistical databases system (non aggregated, low
   level aggregates, time series, regional)
10. Dissemination of statistical information

3
Development of methodology on the critical path
of the roadmap

• Demography
• National accounts
• Price statistics
• Household surveys
• Labor statistics
• Foreign trade
• Industry, construction and investments
• Agriculture
• Trade and services
• Social statistics
• Government sector

4
Key actions on the roadmap

• Deep modernization of the ICT architecture of
  Minstat (hardware and generalized software as
  proposed in the expertises)
• New methodology of design of statistical
  questionnaires
• Upgrading the central statistical business
  register and integrated system of statistical
  frames
• Central metadata base
• Implementation of electronic questionnaires and
  electronic data collection
• Implementation of integrated system of
  statistical data bases
• Upgrading the computer literacy of statistical
  staff (by training and training on the job)
• Systems assisting the programming and
  coordination of surveys and databases of the
  system of official statistics (both central and
  branch statistics).

5
Resources

• Organizational frameworks
• Statistical staff
• ICT
• Technical infrastructure
• Financial resources

6
Concluding remarks

• The Republic of Belarus has clear middle term
  vision (for 2007 2010) of transition of
  official statistics, its methodological
  integration and interoperability with global
  system of statistics coordinated within the EU.
  The Minstat has legal and professional capacities
  of coordination of the official statistics in
  existing decentralized model.
• The impact of the program of Electronic Belarus
  on official statistics should be taken into
  account in taking concrete decisions of
  development of the information infrastructure of
  official statistics.
• The Minstat is the coordinator of one of the
  strategic information systems of the country,
  that plays fundamental role in the development of
  information standards and integrity of social and
  economic information.
• It is suggested to use the findings of the SWOT
  analysis presented above for optimization of the
  use of existing capacities, for defining
  efficient ways of their strengthening and
  defining piorities.

7
Concluding remarks

• The actions related to the upgrading of the ICT
  and building the ISIS are lying on the start of
  the critical path of the roadmap of the NSDS.
• Common education and training program of
  statisticians (in centralized and decentralized
  statistics) and of other statistical
  stakeholders is an important long term priority
  of the NSDS.
• For effective realization of transition of
  official statistics, strengthening the capacity
  of the R D (especially the RIS) should be
  given high priority.
• International cooperation of official
  statisticians with international organizations
  and with the statistical offices which have the
  expertise and experience in transition of
  statistics.
• Taking into account the time of realization of
  the population census 2009, it is suggested to
  postpone the introduction of deeper
  organizational changes in the centralized
  statistics for the period after finishing the
  census and elaboration of the results.

8
NSDS as dynamic strategy

• Systematic updating of the VISION
• SWOT analysis should be continuous
• Monitoring the information infrastrucutre of the
  country adoption of the NSS
• Updating the roadmap evaluating and changing
  the priorities
• Optimization of resources
• Statisticians as the most valuable resource of
  the NSS