Statistical Capacity Building in Africa
Dr. Savaş Alpay
Director General
SESRTCIC
Statistical Economic and Social Research and
Training Centre for Islamic Countries
(SESRTCIC)
• A subsidiary organ of the Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC)
• The OIC was established in 1969
• It has now 57 member countries
• It is the 2nd largest International Organization after
the UN
• 27 members in Africa, 26 in Asia, 2 in Europe and 2
in south America
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Why Statistical Capacity Building?
Economists have come to feel
What can’t be measured, isn’t real.
The truth is always an amount
Count numbers, only numbers count.
(Chambers 1997)
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•18 African OIC Members are below
the World average
•18 African Members are below OIC
Average
in
• National accounts methodology
(SNA93 or SNA68),
•National accounts base year, balance
of payments manual in use (BPM5 or
BPM4),
•External debt reporting (actual,
preliminary or estimate),
•CPI base year,
•Government finance accounting
concept (consolidated or budgetary)
Source: All tables on statistical capacities are based
on the data provided by the World Bank.
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African OIC Members’
performance is weaker than
both the World and OIC
Average
With respect to frequency of
•Population Census,
•Agricultural Census,
•Poverty Survey,
•Health Survey and
•The coverage of Vital Registration
System
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The performance of African OIC
Members is similar to the average
World & OIC performance with
respect to World Development
Indicators:
•Income Poverty
•Child Malnutrition
•Child Mortality
•Immunization
•HIV/AIDS
•Maternal Health
•Gender Equality
•Primary Completion
•Access To Water
•Per Capita GDP Growth
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More than half of
the OIC African
member
countries are
performing
below the World
Average
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Statistical Capacity Performances
OIC-African Members, all OIC members and the World
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40
30
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10
0
Overall
Statistical Practice
OIC Africa
Data Collection
OIC Total
Indicator Availability
World
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Distribution of OIC African Members with
respect to Overall Performance
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6
16
0-24
25-49
50-74
> = 75
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SESRTCIC’s Survey on the
Needs and Capacities of NSOs
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General Statistics
National Accounts
Balance of Payments Statistics
International Trade Statistics
Monetary and Financial Statistics
Government Finance Statistics
Real Sector Statistics
Price Statistics
Agriculture Statistics
Education and Training Statistics
Industry and Services Statistics
Labor Statistics
Environmental Statistics
Health Statistics
Science, Technology and Patent Statistics
Population and Demography
Web-based Data Compilation Techniques
Statistical Data Analysis
Census/Surveys and Sampling Techniques
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Outcome of the Survey
• 20 countries out of 57 member countries of OIC responded to the
questionnaire. The response rate: 35 %.
• 8 of the African Members of OIC responded the questionnaire. 40 %
of the total responses.
• The most urgent 7 subjects are determined as follows:
General Statistics
Labor Statistics
Population and Demography
Statistical Data Analysis
Census/Surveys and Sampling Techniques
• Needs and capacities are matched by SESRTCIC.
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Training Programme of SESRTCIC Involving
African Members
Countries which Countries which
declared
declared
Subject/Areas
need for training
capacity for
training
Labor Statistics
Morocco
Palestine
Population and Demography Jordan
Egypt
Census/Census Surveys
Jordan
Egypt
and Sampling Teqhniques
General Statistics
Maldives
Egypt
Statistical Data Analysis
Mozambique
Uganda
Census/Census Surveys
Mali
Senegal
and Sampling Teqhniques
Population and Demography Sudan
Egypt
Census/Census Surveys
and Sampling Teqhniques
Sudan
Egypt
Time
May 2007
May 2007
May 2007
July 2007
August 2007
August 2007
September
2007
September
2007
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BAsic Social and Economic INDicators
(BASEIND)
BASEIND is the statistical database of the SESRTCIC and currently
contains data on 186 socio-economic variables under 15 different categories
for the 57 OIC member countries dating back to 1975. The categories that
are defined under BASEIND are:
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Agriculture (27 indicators),
National Accounts (27 indicators),
Education (15 indicators),
Demography (14 indicators),
Exports (12 indicators),
Imports (12 indicators),
Transportation and Communication (12 indicators),
International Finance (11 indicators),
Money and Prices (10 indicators),
Industry and Manufacturing (9 indicators),
Energy and Mining (8 indicators),
Health (8 indicators),
Labour Force (8 indicators),
Public Finance (8 indicators),
Tourism (5 indicators)
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Category-Wise Coverage of SESRTCIC’s Database
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National Accounts
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Health
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A Framework for Statistical Capacity
Building
• Training activities will continue. The Centre is
planning to make a new survey after September
2007, with the hope of a participation higher than
35%.
• Centre will try to generate coordination with other
international organizations regarding training
programmes.
• After the finalization of the e-learning programme
being developed by a team led by the World Bank,
new statistical capacity building techniques will be
promoted.
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A Framework for Statistical Capacity
Building
• Indicators of Millenium Development Goals,
indicators related to environment, indicators
related to science and technology will be added
to the database of SESRTCIC.
• Methods of data collection will be improved
through an ongoing project in cooperation with
the NSO of Turkey. A new web based data
collection system will enable the data transfer of
each OIC member country to SESRTCIC online.
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• A proper and reliable data provision system will
increase the quality and quantity of researches on
the member countries of OIC.
• The quality and the coverage of the SESRTCIC
statistics database can be improved if coordination
with NSOs of the member countries is enhanced.
• The number of people visiting the website of
SESRTCIC is at a considerable level (~1000 people
per day) so it is very much desirable that data about
member countries should disseminate through this
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website.
Please visit our new website
www.sesrtcic.org
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