International Conference on the Millennium Development Goals Statistics

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International Conference on the Millennium
Development Goals Statistics

• National Statistical Service of the Republic of
  Armenia
• Improvement of Data Availability for MDGs of
  Armenia
• 1-3 October 2007, Manila, Philippines

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General

• The Statistical System of the Republic of Armenia
  is centralized and financed from the state
  budget.
• Mission to compile and publish statistics for
  public use.
• Statistics Armenia is comprised of the Central
  Statistical Office and 11 Marz (regional)
  Agencies of Statistics.
• The Supreme Body of Governance State Council on
  Statistics consisting of 7 members and authorized
  to accept normative legal acts on statistics.
• Head President of the National Statistical
  Service of RA, who at the same time holds the
  post of the Chairman of the State Council on
  Statistics.
• The Head and 6 members of the Council are
  appointed for 6 year terms by the RA President s
  Decree.

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Main Functions

• to collect, process, summarize, analyze and
  publish statistical data,
• to cooperate with state and local self-government
  bodies in collection of statistical information.
• to develop and improve statistical methodologies,
• to coordinate data collection according to
  international standards and classifications,
• to organize statistical surveys,
• to carry out population census every 10 years,
• to establish, maintain and update the
  business-register,
• to provide users with statistical information,
• to ensure the transparency and access to
  aggregated statistical information,
• to cooperate with international organizations and
  national statistical offices.

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Position within the Public
Administration

• Administrative position the National Statistical
  Service of RA is a specialized state management
  body implementing functions aimed at the public
  interest that is independent from other state and
  local self-government bodies.
• The Staff is united administrative institution
  consisting of functional and territorial units.
  Staff members are civil servants.
• The activity is based on the state statistical
  work programs. Three-year state statistical work
  program is approved by the Parliament of RA as a
  Law, while the annual program by the State
  Council on Statistics.

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International Classifications and Standards

• NACE Rev.1
• CPA,PRODCOM
• ISCO-88
• ISCED
• HS/CN
• ICD-10
• Armenia has become a subscriber to the IMF
  General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) since 29
  March 2001.
• On November 7 the Republic of Armenia became
  the 54th subscriber to the IMF Special Data
  Dissemination Standard (SDDS).

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MDGs

• It is not a secret that the Millennium
  Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the UN in
  September 2000 are the most comprehensive and
  worldwide program of the 21st Century. As
  articulated in the Millennium Development
  Declaration, the Millennium Development Goals are
  benchmarks for progress towards a vision of
  development, peace and human rights, guided by
  certain fundamental values essential to
  international relations in the twenty-first
  century.
• To implement the program a serious role is also
  preserved for statisticians both at international
  and national levels.

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MDGs

• In this respect, a big importance is attached to
  the program work of the National Statistical
  Offices of countries in the sphere of formation
  of accounting systems of the MDGs indicators, as
  well as exchange of statistical data and metadata
  with international organizations. It is extremely
  important to intensify a methodological
  coordination work by international organizations
  and to increase their status in this sphere. The
  work of countries statistical offices aimed at
  the formation and coordination of information
  sources of the MDGs indicators is essentially
  important at the national level.

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MDGs

• The last task in transition and developing
  countries is still remaining sharp, conditioned
  by the fact that those countries have still not
  finished the processes of formation of
  administrative registers. In particular, for
  Armenia as a transition country the compilations
  of the MDGs indicators by regions is still a
  serious task, because of registers at the
  community level have still not been formed. The
  compilation of the MDGs indicators is mostly
  implemented at the national level. Data
  collection on those indicators is implemented by
  statistical work programs that are a basis for
  statistical activities within the country.

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MDGs and PRSP

• The MDGs indicators have also been reflected in
  the Poverty Reduction Strategy Program (PRSP)
  adopted by the Government of Armenia in 2003, the
  goals of which are also benchmarked for
  achievement by 2015.
• The MDG-based PRSP has been designed by the
  Government of Armenia with the support of
  international organizations and experts.
• NGOs have largely been involved in that work.
  There were large-scale discussions on PRSP draft
  by the civil society.
• When defining the PRSP monitoring indicators, a
  numerous statistical indicators have been taken
  into account, particularly results of household
  surveys conducted by the National Statistical
  Service of the Republic of Armenia. The policy
  developed based on that monitoring enabled to
  reduce poverty from 56.1 in 1999 to 29.8 in
  2005.

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The main goals are

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empowerment of women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development.

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Status of the MDGs Indicators

• MDGs Indicators 48
• Armenia MDGs Indicators for 2006 36,
• out of which
• Compiled by administrative registers 16
• Compiled by the National Statistical Service - 20

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Data Collection Sources

• ILCS Integrated Living Conditions Survey
• DHS Demographic and Health Survey
• LFS Labour Force Survey
• 2001 Population Census
• NSS National Statistical Service of the
  Republic of Armenia
• AR Administrative Register

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Information flows in the Armenian Statistical
System and its actors
USERS
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Links with Administrative Registers
Register of Entrepreneurial Rights (State
Register Legal Persons)
Crime Register (RA Police and other state bodies)
Tax Register
Customs Register
Register of diseases and health sphere (Ministry
of Health of RA)
Environment Register (Ministry of Nature
Protection of RA)
National Statistical Service (statistical
registers)
Register Science and Education (Ministry of
Science and Education of RA)
Employment and Unemployment Register (State
Service of Employment of RA)
Civil Status Register (RA Bodies of Civil Status
Registration, Passport Unit of RA Police)
Register of External Passenger Turnover
(Migration Agency of RA)
Monetary -credit and Bank Register (Central Bank
of RA)
Population Register (social) (Ministry of Labour
and Social Affaires of RA and other bodies)
Register of State and Municipality Revenues and
Expenditures (RA Treasure)
Insurance Market Register (Central Bank of RA)
Territorial Registers (regions and
municipalities)
Social Insurance Register (State Fund of Social
Insurance of RA)
Securities Register (Central Bank of RA)
Agriculture Register (Ministry of Agriculture of
RA)
Registers of quasi-fiscal Spheres (energy, gas,
water, communications)
Property Rights Register (State Cadastre
Committee of RA)
Other Administrative Statistical Registers (by
types of economic activities)
Air Sphere Register (Main Civil Aviation of RA)
Existing
Not established yet
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Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Target 1.
• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of
  people whose income is less than 1a day

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Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
proportion of people who suffer from hunger
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Goal 2. Achieve universal primary
educationTarget 3.Ensure that, by 2015,
children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will
be able to complete a full course of primary
schooling
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Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4.Eliminate gender disparity in primary
and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and
in all levels of education no later than 2015
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Goal 4. Reduce child mortalityTarget 5.Reduce
by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the
under-five mortality rate
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Goal 5. Improve maternal health Target 6.
Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015,
the maternal
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Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases Target 7. Have halted by 2015 and
begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
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Target 8.Have halted by 2015 and begun to
reverse the incidence of malaria and other major
diseases
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Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9.Integrate the principles of
sustainable development into country policies and
programs and reverse the loss of environmental
resources
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Target 10.Halve, by 2015, the proportion of
people without sustainable access to safe
drinking water and sanitation
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Target 11.By 2020, to have achieved a
significant improvement in the lives of at least
100 million slum dwellers
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Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for
development
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Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt
problems of developing countries through national
and international measures in order to make debt
sustainable in the long term
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Target 16.In cooperation with developing
countries, develop and implement strategies for
decent and productive work for youth

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Target 18.In cooperation with the private
sector, make available the benefits of new
technologies, especially information and
communications
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Challenges

• To form information sources ( in particular,
  formation of administrative registers at the
  community level)
• To consider and use alternative measures and data
  sources
• To ensure disaggregated data by national and
  sub-national levels
• To estimate the data quality
• To reduce data gaps, inconsistencies
• To strengthen the statistical capacity building
• To improve methodologies, definitions and methods
  for calculating key development indicators
• To improve the coverage, transparency, timeliness
  and reporting on all indicators
• To improve the contents and structure of metadata
• To improve knowledge of users and producers of
  MDGs
• To improve the coordination among agencies inside
  the country and international agencies, between
  countries and international agencies, and between
  international agencies
• To intensify the international cooperation
  towards unification of the MDGs indicators
  methodology, data compilation and dissemination.

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NSS RA strategies

• To develop a program for MDGs activity
• To increase a capacity to produce the data
  required for the MDG indicators
• To increase the NSSRAs capacity for providing
  timely and accurate data for MDGs monitoring and
  reporting
• To include MDGs (tables/formats) in statistical
  reports on social and economic situation of the
  country to assist in monitoring MDGs
• To prepare and publish The Millennium
  Development Goals Statistical Report
• To post MDGs on the national statistics website
• To introduce software, in particular Devinfo
• To improve and make closer cooperation with
  administrative registers
• To implement activities to form other
  respondents.

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Library and Internet

• The library is rich with all the statistical
  products of the NSS, statistical publications of
  other countries and international organizations,
  methodological handbooks, text-books, legal
  documents, etc.
• The statistics library is open to the general
  public.
• Librarys electronic catalogue is accessible from
  the Internet.
• Internet http//www.armstat.am

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