PARIS21 Statistical Capacity Building (SCB) Indicators

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PARIS21 Statistical Capacity Building (SCB)
Indicators

• Presentation to PARIS21
• Lucie Laliberté
• October, 2002

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SCB Indicators

• What is their purpose?
• Who use them?
• What are they used for?
• What are they?
• How are they compiled?
• What do they show?
• Why an experimental period?
• Use as a management tool
• Main milestones of the Task Team
• PARIS21 Task Team on SCB indicators Members and
  Consultants

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What is the purpose?

• Comparative overview
• of
• economies statistical capacity
• with a view
• to facilitate capacity building

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Who use them?

• International donor community
• Domestic policy makers
• Data producers

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What are they used for?

• A snapshot of a countrys statistical conditions
• A focus on opportunities by highlighting
  strengths and weaknesses
• A means to track over time results of capacity
  building efforts

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What are they?

• 16 quantitative indicators
• government funding for current and capital
  operations
• donor funding in terms of money and expert
  working days
• donors involved
• staff number and turnover
• information and communication technology
  equipment main frame, PC, network, and Internet
  access
• the surveys and administrative records used as
  source data
• the type of data produced, inclusive of reference
  date and the producing agency
• the number of data releases
• the format of data releases.

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What are they? (contd)

• 18 qualitative indicators
• the legal and institutional environment, resource
  and management
• the professional and cultural setting
• the methodological expertise for linking data
  sources to the statistical products
• the population, and the surveys, survey
  questionnaires, and administrative data sources
• the skills and techniques to transform source
  data into statistical products
• the assessment and validation of source data,
  intermediate data, and statistical outputs
• the relevance of the statistics to social and
  economic concerns, including the analytical
  capability to confirm and identify issues
• the periodicity, timing, and internal/relational
  consistency of the statistics and
• the methods and channels for a wide and relevant
  dissemination.

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What do they show?

• Quantitative indicators
• Statistics produced assess the goal of
  countries of delivering statistical products
• Resources show the extent of countries success
  in obtaining resources, and their ability to use
  these resources in producing outputs
• Qualitative indicators
• Serve as measures of efficiency and effectiveness
  of statistical production
• Are the necessary prerequisites in place?
• Are the core statistical processes performed
  according to international good practices?
• Are statistical products relevant and accessible
  to data users?

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Use as a international comparative tool

• Concerns of data producers and international
  community taken into account
• System wide application
• Agency application
• Data application

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Use as a management tool

• A snapshot of a specific units statistical
  conditions
• A focus on opportunities by highlighting
  strengths and weaknesses in producing a specific
  statistic
• A means to track over time results of capacity
  building efforts of a specific unit and/or
  production of a specific statistic

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How are they compiled?

• Through a self-administered questionnaire
• Completed by data producers, and
• Coordinated by the National statistical agency

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Why an experimental period?

• Data producers to see the usefulness of the SCB
  Indicators as management tool
• National coordinating agency to become familiar
  with the SCB Indicators
• The content of the SCB Indicators to be firmed
  up, along with the administrative procedures for
  their implementation

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Main milestones of the PARIS21 Task Team on SCB
Indicators
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PARIS21 Task Team on SCB Indicators Members and
Consultants

• Ms. Lucie Laliberté, Senior Advisor, IMF
  Statistics Department (Chairperson)
• Mr. Thomas Morrison Advisor, IMF Statistics
  Department
• Mr. Jan Bové, Chief, GDDS Unit, IMF Statistics
  Department
• Mr. Sarmad Khawaja, Senior Economist, IMF
  Statistics Department
• Mr. Lamine Diop, Director General, AFRISTAT
• Ms. Beverley Carlson, Chair, ISI Committee on
  Women in Statistics, ECLAC
• Mr. Jean-Etienne Chapron, Regional Adviser, UNECE
• Mr. Misha Belkindas, Team Leader, World Bank
• Mr. Graham Eele, Consultant/Statistician, World
  Bank
• Ms. Makiko Harrison, PARIS21 Coordinator, World
  Bank
• Mr. Antoine Simonpietri, Manager, PARIS21
  Secretariat
• Mr. David Allen (consultant)
• Mr. Tim Hold (consultant)
• Mr. Jan van Tongeren (consultant)