PARIS21Partnership in Statistics for

Development in the 21st Century

DEVELOPING STATISTICS IN CARICOM

From Strengthening NSS to a Data Revolution

May 2014

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Presentation Outline

1. Strengthening NSS: NSDS

2. Quality of Statistics: ADP/IHSN

3. Informing a Data Revolution (IDR)

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1.1. What is NSDS?

• An NSDS provides a country with a vision of the development of statistics and a detailed, costed action plan over a period of 5 to 10 years that covers the production of all official statistics.

• The NSDS are based on specific steps and guidelines.

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1.2. New approach, Same goals for the NSDS

• More experience gained from the past activities

• New context

• New guidelines

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1.3. STRENGTHENING NSS in CARICOM (1)

• Anguilla, supported by PARIS21 and in collaboration with CARICOM and Member and Associate Member States of CARICOM, held its National Strategy for the Development of Statistics workshop on November 9th 2012

• Meeting on the designing of the Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS) in EL SALVADOR organized by SICA-CENTROESTAD in November 2012 in coordination and with the support of Eurostat and PARIS21

• National Stakeholder Consultation about the design of a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) in Grenada on 24 April 2012 supported by PARIS21

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1.4. STRENGTHENING NSS in CARICOM

• The CARICOM Secretariat and the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) in collaboration with PARIS21 organized a “High-Level Advocacy Forum on Statistics : The Urgency Of Statistics And The Global Crisis – Enabling Development In The Caribbean Community” on 30 July 2009 in TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

• NSDS Regional Workshop for the CARICOM Community from 27 - to 29 July 2009 in TRINIDAD & TOBAGO co-organised by PARIS21 and the CARICOM Secretariat

• Regional workshop on the Implementation of NSDSs for Caribbean countries held by PARIS21 on 25 June 2008 in Belize.

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2.1. The Accelerated Data Program (ADP)

• The ADP was launched in 2006 as a recommendation of the Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics (MAPS) to undertake urgent improvements in survey programs for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals.

• The ADP is focused on sample household surveys but also including censuses and administrative data.

• The ADP is currently supporting agencies in more than 60 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.

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2.2. Accelerated Data Program: Goals

• Making survey microdata more accessible

• Increasing microdata use and strengthening the demand

• Improving the quality of future surveys

The ADP takes advantage of tools and guidelines developed or provided by the International Household Survey Network (IHSN).

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• Improved coordination of internationally sponsored survey programs, with emphasis on timing, sequencing, frequency, and cost-effectiveness

• Availability of coordinated and practical technical and methodological guidelines for all stages of the survey life cycle

• Availability of a central survey data catalog which informs data users of the availability of survey and census data from multiple sources

• Availability of standards, tools, and guidelines that allow data producers to document, disseminate, and preserve microdata according to international standards and best practices

• Improved collaboration between data producers and users

2.4. International Household Survey Network (IHSN): GOALS

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2.6. ADP/IHSN AND CARICOM (1)• Regional Training Workshop on NADA 4.0 held in Costa

Rica for Latin American Countries (June 2013) attended by Dominican Republic

• Belize Statistical Office received initial training (June 2013)

• Dominican Republic embarked on microdata documentation in December 2012

• Regional training workshop on population and housing census documentation and archiving organized in Costa Rica (September 2012) attended by Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia

• IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit Training Workshop held on 3-7 December 2012 for the NSO of the Dominican Republic (ONE)

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2.6. ADP/IHSN AND CARICOM (2)• ADP supported the Central America Statistical Commission (CENTROESTAD) of

the Central America Integration System (SICA) attended by Dominican Republic and Belize in July 2012

• Caribbean workshop on microdata documentation and dissemination (Trinidad and Tobago, April 2010)

• Survey data archive initiated at Institut National de l’Enfance (IHE), Haiti in October 2009

• ADP and Global Fund partner to promote data archiving (Nairobi, May 2009) attended by Haiti

• Dominican Republic ONE encouraging other Statistical Units to progress on microdata management (Santo Domingo, August 10–21, 2009)

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With financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PARIS21 is carrying out a project to Inform a Data Revolution

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Why do we need a “data revolution”?

What do we want to achieve?

How will we do it?

Who should be involved?

When will it be done?

3.Informing a Data Revolution

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“A true data revolution would draw on existing and new sources of data to fully integrate statistics into decision making, promote open access to, and use of, data and ensure increased support for statistical systems.”A new global partnership: eradicate poverty and transform economies through sustainable development: The Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, 30 May 2013, Chapter 4

3.1. Wanted: a new data revolution

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• Build on what has already been achieved• Promote the production and use of more

relevant, timely, open and reliable data• Support everyone to make better

decisions for better lives • Be implemented in new ways

3.2. The data revolution should…

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• Take stock of what is being done – good and bad – and find out about the needs of data producers and data users

• Explore solutions, finding out what works and seeing if and how it can be replicated

• Advocate for and promote a data revolution• Produce a road map for the next five years

3.3. How will we do it? (1)

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• Country studies – find out where we are now, analyse problems and challenges and identify some solutions

• Review innovations and see what could help• Carry out important background research• Advocacy and communication – developing

and extending the partnership

3.3. How will we do it? (2)

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Just about everyone:• National statistical systems• All kinds of data users• Other data providers• The owners and producers of big data• The international community• Civil society organisations• Academics• Private sector businesses• The media

3.4. Who needs to be involved?

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• Road map will be launched in July 2015 in advance of the UN General Assembly

• The Road Map document will be supported by a number of other outputs Clear vision of what the revolution is about Background documents including the country

studies and the background research The Road Map will include an overview of how the

revolution can be implemented, including an estimate of the financing requirements

3.5. When will it be done?

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3.6. IDR in CARICOM

• Cross-country studies in May-June 2014 on• Guyana• Haiti

• In-depth studies in September-October 2014 on• Guyana

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